Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and system for an emergency location information service (E-LIS) for Internet of Things (IoT) devices
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Application No.: US15491608Application Date: 2017-04-19
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Publication No.: US10511950B2Publication Date: 2019-12-17
- Inventor: Nicholas M. Maier , Gerald R. Eisner
- Applicant: Nicholas M. Maier , Gerald R. Eisner
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: RedSky Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: RedSky Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Agency: Lesavich High-Tech Law Group, S.C.
- Agent Stephen Lesavich
- Main IPC: H04W4/90
- IPC: H04W4/90 ; H04W4/14 ; H04W4/029

Abstract:
A method and system for determining and verifying a location of network devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). The method and system provide a current physical geographic location for such IoT network devices and/or a user of the IoT network device in an emergency situation such as an accident, health, fitness, fire, terrorist attack, military incident, weather, flood event, etc. and forwarding the current physical geographic location to a legacy 911 network, NG-911 network, a Emergency Services IP networks (ESInet) or text-to-911 Short Message Services (SMS) networks to alert emergency responders.
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