System and method for providing mobility management and out-of-coverage indication in a conventional land mobile radio system

• US 9,814,014 B2
• Filed: 07/07/2014
• Issued: 11/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: E F Johnson Company (JVC Kenwood Corporation)
• Original Assignee: E F Johnson Company (JVC Kenwood Corporation)
• Inventors: Roy, Arindam, Trine, Linda, Jobe, Marshall
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Chirag
• Assistant Examiner(s): SMITH, JOSHUA Y
• Application Number:
  US14/325,332
• Publication Number:
  US 20140308949A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,219 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0088 Scheduling hand-off measurements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/04 using triggered events
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a system and a method for providing mobility management and out-of-coverage indication in a conventional Land Mobile Radio (LMR) system. A radio provides its location and user group data to the disclosed system through its traffic channel when the channel is idle. Knowledge of the radio'"'"'s current location and user group data is used to provide dynamic call routing and data management within the disclosed system. The disclosed system and method may provide operability similar to that of a trunking system by providing mobility management and out-of-coverage indication while providing low-cost benefits through operation of a conventional system.

Claims

1. A method for providing mobility management and out-of-coverage indication in a conventional land mobile radio system implementing a Project 25 conventional system protocol, the method comprising:

monitoring, by a radio implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol, a traffic channel of the conventional land mobile radio system implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol;

determining the radio implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol is within coverage of the conventional land mobile radio system implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol, in response to at least one of;

(a) the radio receiving one or more automatically pushed periodic data packets transmitted at a regular configured period of time across the traffic channel in compliance with the Project 25 conventional system protocol from a first land mobile radio site in the conventional land mobile radio system implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol, and

(b) the radio implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol detecting activity on the traffic channel during an amount of time, the activity comprising a user initiated call comprising audio complying with the Project 25 conventional system protocol and originating from a remote radio implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol;

determining that the radio implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol is out-of-coverage of the conventional land mobile radio system implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol in response to both;

(i) the radio implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol not receiving during the amount of time one of the automatically pushed periodic data packets transmitted at the regular configured period of time across the traffic channel in compliance with the Project 25 conventional system protocol from the first land mobile radio site in the conventional land mobile radio system implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol to the radio implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol, and

(ii) the radio implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol not detecting activity on the traffic channel during the amount of time, the activity comprising the user initiated call comprising audio complying with the Project 25 conventional system protocol and originating from the remote radio implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol; and

receiving, when the radio implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol is within coverage of the conventional land mobile radio system implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol, radio data in compliance with the Project 25 conventional system protocol and transmitted across the traffic channel from the radio implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol to the first land mobile radio site when the traffic channel is idle,

wherein the radio data complying with the Project 25 conventional system protocol and transmitted across the traffic channel comprises at least one of user group data and location data,

wherein, in response to the at least one of user group data and location data being determined to be different from a previously stored at least one of the user group data and location data, updating the conventional land mobile radio system with the at least one of the user group data and location data determined to be different.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising indicating that the radio implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol is out-of-coverage.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein indicating that the radio implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol is out-of-coverage includes at least one of an audible indication, a vibrating indication, and a visual indication at the radio implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein updating the conventional land mobile radio system with the at least one of the user group data and location data determined to be different comprises:

storing the radio data at a location associated with the first land mobile radio site;

routing the radio data to another land mobile radio site in the conventional land mobile radio system implementing the Project 25 conventional system protocol; and

storing the radio data in one or more locations associated with the other land mobile radio site.