Patent ID: 8509732

Claim:
A method for automatically selecting and contacting an emergency contact person based on location comprising: receiving emergency contact list data from a party through a party computing system of the party, the emergency contact list data including data identifying at least two emergency contact persons and contact information associated with the at least two emergency contact persons; storing the emergency contact list data; the party activating an emergency contact feature through the party computing system; determining a geo-location of the emergency that caused the party to activate the emergency contact feature; determining a geo-location of individual ones of the at least two emergency contact persons from individual geo-locations of emergency contact person computing systems of individual ones of the at least two emergency contact persons; analyzing data indicating the geo-location of the emergency and data indicating the geo-location of the emergency contact persons to determine an emergency contact person of the at least two emergency contact persons that is closest to the geo-location of the emergency; using the contact information associated with the previously determined closest emergency contact person contact the previously determined closest emergency contact person; obtaining traffic/arrival time data indicating an estimated time between the geo-location of the emergency and the geo-location of the emergency contact persons; analyzing the data indicating the geo-location of the emergency, the data indicating the geo-location of the emergency contact persons, and the traffic/arrival time data to determine the emergency contact person of the at least two emergency contact persons that is estimated to be temporally closest to the geo-location of the emergency; and using the contact information associated with the emergency contact person that is estimated to be temporally closest to the geo-location of the emergency to contact the emergency contact person that is estimated to be temporally closest to the geo-location of the emergency.