Patent ID: 7369530

Claim:
A gateway device for a Public Safety Answering Point comprising: a packet I/O interface configured for communicating with a packet-based network; a telephony I/O interface configured for communicating with a controller; a database I/O interface configured for communicating with a location database; packet protocol stacks configured for handling data packets; a TDM/Telephony signaling module configured for generating telephone signaling information and handling analog voice data; database protocol stacks for handling location database records; and an auxiliary information gateway application configured to use the packet protocol stacks and the TDM/Telephony signaling module to parse call session set-up information from a request packet and generate telephone signaling information therefrom, convert analog voice data to packetized voice data and direct the packetized voice data to the packet I/O interface, and convert packetized voice data to analog voice data and direct the analog voice data to the telephony I/O interface.