METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GEOLOCATION AND COORDINATED COMMUNICATION WITH EMERGENCY RESPONDERS

摘要

This disclosure provides a method and system for tracking and communicating with responders in the event of an emergency situation. An emergency server coupled to a wireless telecommunications network receives a notification of an emergency situation, establishes a first geofence around a location of the emergency situation, determines a set of candidate responders registered to an area associated with the location, transmits a request for UE locations of the set of candidate responders to a location server and receives a response, determines which UEs of candidate responders are within an area bounded by the geofence, and transmits messages soliciting responders to the UEs.

主权项

1. A method for identifying and designating responders for an emergency situation, the method comprising:
receiving, at an emergency server coupled to a wireless telecommunications network, a notification of an emergency situation; establishing a first geofence around a location of the emergency situation; determining a set of candidate responders registered to an area associated with the location of the emergency situation; transmitting a request for locations of user equipment (UEs) of the set of candidate responders to a location server; receiving the locations of the UEs from the location server; determining which UEs of candidate responders are within an area bounded by the geofence; transmitting first messages to the UEs, the first messages including a request to respond to the emergency situation; receiving second messages in response to the first messages, the second messages indicating a positive response to the request; adding identities of the UEs from which second messages were received to a list of one or more active responders; and tracking locations of the one or more active responders until the emergency situation is resolved.