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Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 21, 2020
Applicant:

Motorola Solutions, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);

Inventors:

Parveen Gupta, Centennial, CO (US);

Janet A Manzanares, Broomfield, CO (US);

Min Ma, Lake Zurich, IL (US);

Brian J Frommelt, Deer Park, IL (US);

Assignee:

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC., Chicago, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 4/90 (2018.01); H04W 4/14 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/0289 (2013.01); H04W 4/14 (2013.01); H04W 4/90 (2018.02);
Abstract

A method for handling an overload state in a public safety answering point (PSAP) is provided. While an overload state is not detected at a call routing computing device received emergency calls are queued for a human operator. Responsive to detecting an overload state, first identifying those calls initiated from mobile devices capable of communicating via text message and transmitting a text message requesting callers to respond via text identifying the matter of the emergency call. The responsive text messages are classified as one of a verified emergency call and a verified non-emergency call to be returned when the overload is no longer detected. For each verified emergency call the call is queued for answer by a human operator. For each verified non-emergency call, a follow up text message is transmitted indicating that the verified non-emergency call will be returned at a later time.


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