Patent ID: 8301630

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving input at a user equipment that designates a particular entity recorded in a user equipment contacts database as being an entity to be contacted in case of an emergency; and setting an indication in a first field of a corresponding contacts database entry, where the first field is separate from a second field of the contacts database entry that stores a name of the entity, wherein a first portion of the indication designates the entity named in the second field as one to be contacted in the event of an emergency, and wherein a second portion of the indication further indicates an order of priority according to a user defined precedence for contacting the entity named in the second field to be contacted in the event of an emergency and displaying said named entities in said order, wherein the first portion of the indication comprises a first bit in the first field, wherein the second portion of the indication comprises at least one second bit in the first field, wherein the first bit indicates whether the entry represents an ICE (In Case of Emergency) contact, and wherein the at least one second bit corresponds to the order of priority of the ICE contact.