Patent ID: 8559912

Claim:
A method for providing contact information associated with an out of area mobile device to a reverse 911 database, the method comprising: receiving identifying information associated with a mobile device at a mobile switching center; determining whether the mobile device is within a particular wireless sub-network; responsive to the mobile device not being within the particular wireless sub-network, generating a message for providing contact information of the mobile device to the reverse 911 database; determining an Internet Protocol (“IP”) address of the reverse 911 database for contacting the reverse 911 database over an IP-based packet-switching network; and transmitting the message to the mobile device and the IP address to the mobile device, the text message being configured to cause the reverse 911 database to add the contact information to the reverse 911 database in response to the mobile device sending the contact information to the reverse 911 database over the IP-based packet-switching network.