Motorola Corporation

Motorola Mobility LLC

Rohini Polisetty

Arnold Sheynman

Padmaja Putcha

Donald Arthur Dorsey

Sharada Raghuram

Ramesh Sudini

Carl A Grube

Rajendra K Kosgi

Mahesh Perepa

Maloor Ramachandra Sreekrishna

Krishnamurthy Srinath Vijayaprasad

Kevin Michael Spriggs

Steve R Brandt

Emergency call placement methods and apparatus for a user equipment in a wireless network are disclosed. The placement method includes detecting initiation of an emergency call during a non-idle connection mode of the user equipment (), terminating the non-idle connection mode () and initiating a new connection for the emergency call (). This method allows the new connection to use a location methodology to locate the user equipment in response to the emergency call. The disclosed wireless user equipment () is configured to implement the disclosed method.

Methods and apparatus for placement of an emergency call

A multi-mode mobile wireless communications device architecture () including an application layer (), a services layer () interfacing the applications layer, a multi-mode layer () interfacing the service layer, and a hardware layer () interfacing the multi-mode layer. The multi-mode layer includes first and second interoperable radio access technologies, for example W-CDMA UMTS and GSM/GPRS technologies.

Multi-mode interoperable mobile station communications architectures and methods

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