MANAGING DIGITAL RADIO COMMUNICATIONS

• US 20130148561A1
• Filed: 12/13/2011
• Published: 06/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kumhyr, David B.
• Application Number:
  US13/324,033
• Publication Number:
  US 20130148561A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/312
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management

Abstract

A system and computer usable program product for managing digital radio transmissions including determining a group of selected radio receiving units for a set of digital radio transmissions according to a policy, and transmitting the set of digital radio transmissions by a radio transmitting unit only to the group of selected radio receiving units.

Claims

1-8. -8. (canceled)

9. A computer usable program product comprising a computer usable storage medium including computer usable code for managing digital radio transmissions, the computer usable program product comprising code for performing the steps of:

determining a group of selected radio receiving units for a set of digital radio transmissions according to a policy; and

transmitting the set of digital radio transmissions only to the group of selected radio receiving units.

10. The computer usable program product of claim 9 further comprising the steps of:

displaying a proposed group of radio receiving units as the group of selected radio receiving units according to the policy;

accepting user input to modify the proposed group of radio receiving units as the group of selected radio receiving units; and

accepting user input to confirm the modified group of radio receiving units as the group of selected radio receiving units.

11. The computer usable program product of claim 10 further comprising the step of accepting user input to modify the policy while accepting user input to confirm the modified group of radio receiving units as the group of selected radio receiving units.

12. The computer usable program product of claim 9 wherein the policy is selected from a group consisting of incident type, incident location, and incident priority.

13. The computer usable program product of claim 12 wherein the selected policy allocates resources based on factors from a group consisting of personnel function, personnel location, and personnel availability.

14. The computer usable program product of claim 13 wherein the policy allocates receiving units based on factors from a group consisting of allocated personnel, allocated personnel manager, and allocated personnel support.

15. The computer usable program product of claim 9 further comprising the step of allowing a user to add a radio receiving unit assigned to the user to the group of selected radio receiving units if allowed by the policy.

16. The computer usable program product of claim 10 further comprising the steps of:

displaying a proposed group of radio receiving units as the group of selected radio receiving units;

accepting user input to modify the proposed group of radio receiving units as the group of selected radio receiving units;

accepting user input to confirm the modified group of radio receiving units as the group of selected radio receiving units; and

accepting user input to modify the policy while accepting user input to confirm the modified group of radio receiving units as the group of selected radio receiving units.

17. A data processing system for managing digital radio transmissions, the data processing system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing program instructions which when executed by the processor execute the steps of;

determining a group of selected radio receiving units for a set of digital radio transmissions according to a policy; and

transmitting the set of digital radio transmissions only to the group of selected radio receiving units.

18. The data processing system of claim 17 further comprising the steps of:

displaying a proposed group of radio receiving units as the group of selected radio receiving units according to the policy;

accepting user input to modify the proposed group of radio receiving units as the group of selected radio receiving units; and

accepting user input to confirm the modified group of radio receiving units as the group of selected radio receiving units.

19. The data processing system of claim 18 further comprising the steps of accepting user input to modify the policy while accepting user input to confirm the modified group of radio receiving units as the group of selected radio receiving units.

20. The data processing system of claim 17 wherein the policy is selected from a group consisting of incident type, incident location, and incident priority.

21. The data processing system of claim 20 wherein the selected policy allocates resources based on factors from a group consisting of personnel function, personnel location, and personnel availability.

22. The data processing system of claim 21 wherein the policy allocates receiving units based on factors from a group consisting of allocated personnel, allocated personnel manager, and allocated personnel support.

23. The data processing system of claim 17 further comprising the step of allowing a user to add a radio receiving unit assigned to the user to the group of selected radio receiving units if allowed by the policy.

24. The data processing system of claim 23 further comprising the steps of:

displaying a proposed group of radio receiving units as the group of selected radio receiving units;

accepting user input to modify the proposed group of radio receiving units as the group of selected radio receiving units;

accepting user input to confirm the modified group of radio receiving units as the group of selected radio receiving units; and

accepting user input to modify the policy while accepting user input to confirm the modified group of radio receiving units as the group of selected radio receiving units.