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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2022
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Joseph Soryal, Glendale, NY (US);
Howard Lang, Wayside, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
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.