Patent ID: 7573984

Claim:
A system comprising: an emergency contact platform including: a server to: receive an inquiry about a phone number associated with a phone that is unavailable due to an emergency event, the inquiry being received from an inquiring party, determine whether the phone number has already been registered, receive notification information from the inquiring party when the phone number is determined not to have already been registered, store the notification information, receive, subsequent to storing the notification information, registration information from a registering party, the registration information including the phone number, store the registration information, and provide the notification information to the registering party in response to receiving the registration information; and a database to: store the received notification information, and store the received registration information, where the server is further to: receive, subsequent to storing the registration information, an information request identifying the phone number, perform a lookup in the database based on the phone number, and provide a result of the lookup based on the received information request.