Patent 7783013 was granted and assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I on August, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods and systems are provided to locate, route, and/or otherwise process an emergency communications signal from a VoIP communication device equipped with a location positioning system and an emergency communications computer software product. The software identifies an emergency communications address, activates the location positioning system, and communicates location coordinates and other emergency information with the emergency communications signal to a communications network.