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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2010
Sherif Abdel-kader, Waterloo, CA;
Srdjan Majkic, Guelph, CA;
Sherif Abdel-Kader, Waterloo, CA;
Srdjan Majkic, Guelph, CA;
Research In Motion Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, unknown;
Abstract
Automatically selecting an emergency number for use by a mobile communications device enabled for Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications, including: receiving at the mobile communications device a geographic indicator in a beacon frame transmitted from a wireless access point of a wireless local area network that is connected to an Internet Protocol network; and determining from a plurality of emergency numbers stored in a storage element of the mobile communications device a selected emergency number in dependence on the received geographic indicator.