MANAGING DIGITAL RADIO COMMUNICATIONS

• US 20130148751A1
• Filed: 05/01/2012
• 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:
  US13/461,759
• Publication Number:
  US 20130148751A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/259
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management

Abstract

A method 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. A method for managing digital radio transmissions comprising:

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.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

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.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising 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.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the policy is selected from a group consisting of incident type, incident location, and incident priority.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the selected policy allocates resources based on factors from a group consisting of personnel function, personnel location, and personnel availability.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the policy allocates receiving units based on factors from a group consisting of allocated personnel, allocated personnel manager, and allocated personnel support.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising 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.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

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.

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