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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:
Aug. 10, 1999

Filed:

Aug. 08, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:

Donald Joong, Montreal, CA;

Nikos Katinakis, Montreal, CA;

Akbar Rahman, Brossard, CA;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
455466 ; 379 40 ; 3791061 ; 379 45 ; 379 9101 ;
Abstract

An emergency call handling system and method for a cellular telecommunications system. The emergency call handling system is provided with at least one subscriber terminal which upon failure to seize a voice connection to an emergency center for an emergency call, transfers data messages over the digital control channel to the emergency center advising it that the user of this one subscriber terminal has an emergency situation. Advantage is found with the present invention in that in times of radio voice channel and/or network traffic congestion resulting in call set up failure, the information relating to a user emergency can be forwarded as data messages to the emergency center.


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