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Priority talkgroups

  • US 10,021,539 B2
  • Filed: 01/17/2017
  • Issued: 07/10/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system comprising:

  • a communications network comprising one or more nodes for transmitting wireless communications to and receiving wireless communications from wireless communications devices; and

    a talkgroup management system configured to;

    support multiple talkgroups, individual talkgroups enabling wireless communications devices designated as being members of corresponding ones of the individual talkgroups to exchange group communications with each other across the communications network;

    store, in computer-accessible storage, information designating a set of talkgroups as talkgroups of which a particular communications device is a member and identifying a particular talkgroup within the set as being a priority talkgroup for the particular communications device;

    cause, based on the stored information identifying the particular talkgroup as being the priority talkgroup for the particular communications device, a node of the communications network to transmit a provisioning communication for the particular wireless communications device identifying the particular talkgroup as the priority talkgroup for the first wireless communications device;

    support a wireless control channel between at least one node of the communications network and the particular wireless communications device for exchanging communications relative to one or more talkgroups between the at least one node and the particular wireless communications device;

    process a request to instantiate the particular talkgroup; and

    cause, as a consequence of processing the request to instantiate the particular talkgroup, the at least one node to transmit, via the wireless control channel, a communication for the particular communications device announcing the instantiation of the particular talkgroup.

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