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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2026

Filed:

Dec. 15, 2022
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Joseph Soryal, Glendale, NY (US);

Howard Lang, Wayside, NJ (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/90 (2018.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04W 12/126 (2021.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/90 (2018.02); H04B 7/18513 (2013.01); H04W 12/126 (2021.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a processing system including a processor via a satellite, an emergency communication that was transmitted from an end user device to the satellite; and determining, by the processing system, a legitimacy of the emergency communication according to an analysis based on various information such as a diligence query or challenge sent to the end user device by the satellite, a history of emergency communications associated with the end user device, a location of the end user device, a location of an emergency event associated with the emergency communication, a number of other emergency communications from other end user devices that are associated with the emergency event, a time period of the other emergency communications, locations of the other end user devices, or a combination thereof. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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