Patent ID: 8504635

Claim:
A system comprising: a first network element configured to exchange session initiation protocol (SIP) signaling messages with a mobile communications device to establish a bearer channel; receive, from the mobile communications device via the bearer channel, multimedia session information captured by the mobile communications device; analyze the multimedia session information for urgent emergency circumstances, wherein the multimedia session information comprises at least one of video, pictures and voice messages; and forward the multimedia session information to a destination for further analysis when the first network element determines that the multimedia information indicates emergency circumstances; a second network element communicatively coupled to the first network element, wherein the destination is a live monitoring center on the second network element; and an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) comprising an IMS session control node, a service broker configured to retrieve geo-location information from a presence location server and bearer capabilities from a home subscriber server, and a telephony application server; wherein the first network element is communicatively coupled to the telephony application server, and wherein the first network element is configured to establish the bearer channel with the mobile communications device via the exchange of the SIP signaling messages through the IMS session control node, the service broker, and the telephony application server.