SECURE, DISTRIBUTED HIERARCHICAL CONVERGENCE NETWORK

• US 20130308495A1
• Filed: 07/22/2013
• Published: 11/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CoCo Communications, Corp.
• Original Assignee: CoCo Communications, Corp.
• Inventors: Tucker, Mark L., Bruestle, Jeremy, Eller, Riley, Retford, Brian, Ng, Choong
• Granted Patent: US 9,167,619 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/254
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/10 Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-On-Call services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/45 for Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-to-Talk over cellular [PoC] services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/08 Trunked mobile radio systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A facility for performing employing multiple frequencies in a secure distributed hierarchical convergence network is described. The facility receives a signal in a first frequency, converts the received signal to an internal representation, applies a business rule to the converted signal, and, when the business rule indicates that the signal should be transmitted in a second frequency, causes the internal representation of the signal to be translated to a second frequency and transmitted in the second frequency.

Claims

1. A method of facilitating communications between wireless devices using multiple different frequencies via a peer-to-peer network, comprising:

receiving, at a first peering point communicatively coupled to the peer-to-peer network, a first wireless signal from a first wireless communication device, the first wireless signal communicated from the first wireless communication device over a first wireless communication system that uses a first frequency for wireless communications;

down-converting, at the first peering point, the received first wireless signal to a down-converted digital signal;

applying a business rule to the down-converted digital signal, wherein the business rule comprises a secure-network portable policy comprising enabling criteria and actions, wherein the enabling criteria describes conditions that are to be in effect at an active peering point, and wherein the actions indicate actions to be taken by the active peering point when the secure-network portable policy becomes active;

when the business rule indicates that the down-converted digital signal should be transmitted to a second wireless communication device, communicating information of the down-converted digital signal through the peer-to-peer network to a second peering point that is communicatively coupled to the peer-to-peer network;

translating, at the second peering point, the down-converted digital signal into a second wireless signal configured to be communicated to the second wireless communication device over a second wireless communication system that uses a second frequency for wireless communications, wherein the second frequency is different from the first frequency; and

transmitting the second wireless signal in the second frequency to the second wireless communication device.