Patent ID: 8781438

Claim:
An apparatus to be employed by a user equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising: a buffer; an emergency module configured to: transmit a non-voice emergency services (NOVES) message over a wireless communication network to a public safety access point (PSAP), the NOVES message including emergency data associated with an emergency situation and a counter value indicating a number of times the NOVES message has been transmitted; and store the emergency data in the buffer; and an acknowledgement module coupled with the emergency module and configured to determine that an acknowledgement indicating that the PSAP has received the NOVES message has not been received; wherein the emergency module, based on the determination by the acknowledgement module, is further configured to: increment the counter value of the NOVES message; and re-transmit the NOVES message with the emergency data and the incremented counter value over the wireless communication network.