Method and apparatus for a cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration portal

• US 10,582,009 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2017
• Issued: 03/03/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
• Inventors: Brown, Eric, Spiro, Alexander R., Clack, Derick J., Zhou, Zhiyi
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hai V
• Application Number:
  US15/468,226
• Publication Number:
  US 20180278718A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,075 Days
• Field of Search: 455518
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4061 Push-to services, e.g. push-to-talk or push-to-video
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/10 Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-On-Call services

Abstract

A method for hosting a cloud-based broadband push-to-talk (PTT) configuration application includes detecting a user action taken at a remote client device providing an interface to the configuration application including an activation of an add group graphical object for adding a new group to an existing broadband PTT radio system, and further includes entrance of a unique identifier for the new group and entrance of whether the new group is a broadband-only group or a converged broadband and land-mobile-radio (LMR) group. A voice service stack associated with the broadband PTT radio system is updated to include the new group and existing other broadband mobile radios are updated via a voice service stack to reflect the added new group. Where the type of the new group is a converged broadband and LMR group, an LMR interface stack of the LMR radio system is updated to reflect the newly added group.

Claims

1. A cloud computing device hosting a voice stack cloud service for routing voice communications between broadband mobile radios operating via a broadband push-to-talk (PTT) radio system and land mobile radio (LMR) devices operating via one or more LMR radio systems and hosting a cloud-based broadband PTT configuration application for allowing remote configuration of the voice stack cloud service, the cloud computing device configured to:

detect, via the broadband PTT configuration application, a first user action taken at a remote client device providing an interface to the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application, the first user action taken including an activation of an add group graphical object associated with adding a new group to an existing broadband PTT radio system;

detect, via the broadband PTT configuration application, a second user action taken at the remote client device including entrance of an identifier that uniquely identifies the new group and entrance of a group type indication indicating whether the new group is a broadband-only group or a converged broadband and LMR group, and responsive to detecting the first and second user action;

where the group type indication indicates that the new group is a broadband-only group;

update, by the broadband PTT configuration application, the voice stack cloud service associated with the broadband PTT radio system to include the new group in the broadband PTT radio system;

update, by the broadband PTT configuration application and via the voice stack cloud service associated with the broadband PTT radio system, existing other broadband mobile radios in the broadband PTT radio system that the new group has been added to the broadband PTT radio system; and

where the group type indication indicates that the new group is a converged broadband and LMR group;

update, by the broadband PTT configuration application, the voice stack cloud service associated with the broadband PTT radio system to include the new group in the broadband PTT radio system;

update, by the broadband PTT configuration application and via the voice stack cloud service associated with the broadband PTT radio system, existing other broadband mobile radios in the broadband PTT radio system that the new group has been added to the broadband PTT radio system; and

register, by the broadband PTT configuration application via the voice stack cloud service, at a particular LMR radio system indicated via the second user action, that the new group has been added to the broadband PTT radio system; and

route, via the updated voice stack cloud service, subsequently received voice communications between broadband mobile radios operating via the broadband PTT radio system and/or LMR devices operating via one or more LMR radio systems.

2. The cloud computing device of claim 1, wherein the particular LMR radio system is one of a ETSI Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) radio system, a Project 25 (P25) radio system, and a Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) radio system.

3. The cloud computing device of claim 1, wherein the cloud computing device is further configured to register the new group at the particular LMR radio system by transmitting a registration message to an on-premises gateway device disposed at a same location as the particular LMR radio system and having a hardware address associated with the particular LMR radio system stored at the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application.

4. The cloud computing device of claim 1, wherein the cloud computing device is further configured to:

create and cause to be displayed, at the remote client device, a new particular group graphical object associated with the new group and indicative of the new group added to the existing broadband PTT radio system and a visual indication that the new group is the converged broadband and LMR group.

5. The cloud computing device of claim 4, wherein the visual indication is text displayed on, over, or in the new particular group graphical object identifying the particular LMR radio system.

6. The cloud computing device of claim 4, wherein the visual indication is an icon associated with an LMR radio system.

7. The cloud computing device of claim 4, wherein the cloud computing device is further configured to:

detect a third user action taken at the remote client device providing an interface to the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application, the third user action taken including a selection of a particular radio system user graphical object associated with a particular radio system user and a dragging and dropping of the particular radio system user graphical object to the new particular group graphical object associated with the new group, and responsively;

update the voice stack cloud service associated with the broadband PTT radio system to include the particular radio system user in group audio and presence information routing with respect to the new group;

update, via the voice stack cloud service associated with the broadband PTT radio system, existing other broadband mobile radios in the new group that the particular radio system user has been added to the new group; and

where the group type indication indicates that the new group is a converged broadband and LMR group;

update, via the voice stack cloud service, the particular LMR radio system that the particular radio system user has been added to the new group.

8. The cloud computing device of claim 7, wherein the cloud computing device is further configured to:

modify the new particular group graphical object associated with the new group to provide an updated visual indication that the particular radio system user has been added to the new group.

9. The cloud computing device of claim 8, wherein the updated visual indication that the particular radio system user has been added to the new group comprises an increment in a numerical number of users displayed in or on the new particular group graphical object.

10. A method for hosting, by a cloud computing device, a voice stack cloud service for routing voice communications between broadband mobile radios operating via a broadband push-to-talk (PTT) radio system and land mobile radio (LMR) devices operating via one or more LMR radio systems and hosting, by the cloud computing device, a cloud-based broadband PTT configuration application for allowing remote configuration of the voice stack cloud service, the method comprising:

detecting, by the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application, a first user action taken at a remote client device providing an interface to the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application, the first user action taken including an activation of an add group graphical object associated with adding a new group to an existing broadband PTT radio system;

detecting, by the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application, a second user action taken at the remote client device including entrance of an identifier that uniquely identifies the new group and entrance of a group type indication indicating whether the new group is a broadband-only group or a converged broadband and LMR group, and responsive to detecting the first and second user action;

where the group type indication indicates that the new group is a broadband-only group;

updating, by the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application, the voice stack cloud service associated with the broadband PTT radio system to include the new group in the existing broadband PTT radio system;

updating, by the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application, and via the voice stack cloud service associated with the broadband PTT radio system, existing other broadband mobile radios in the broadband PTT radio system that the new group has been added to the broadband PTT radio system; and

where the group type indication indicates that the new group is a converged broadband and LMR group;

updating, by the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application, the voice stack cloud service associated with the broadband PTT radio system to include the new group in the existing broadband PTT radio system;

updating, by the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application and via the voice stack cloud service associated with the broadband PTT radio system, existing other broadband mobile radios in the broadband PTT radio system that the new group has been added to the broadband PTT radio system; and

registering, by the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application and via the voice stack cloud service, at a particular LMR radio system indicated via the second user action, that the new group has been added to the broadband PTT radio system; and

routing, by the voice stack cloud service, subsequently received voice communications between broadband mobile radios operating via the broadband PTT radio system and/or LMR devices operating via one or more LMR radio systems in accordance with the updated voice stack cloud service.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the particular LMR radio system is one of an ETSI Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) radio system, a Project 25 (P25) radio system, and a Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) radio system.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising registering, by the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application, the new group at the particular LMR radio system by transmitting a registration message to an on-premises gateway device disposed at a same location as the particular LMR radio system and having a hardware address associated with the particular LMR radio system stored at the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application.

13. The method of claim 10, the method further comprising:

creating and causing to be displayed, by the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application at the remote client device, a new particular group graphical object associated with the new group and indicative of the new group added to the existing broadband PTT radio system and a visual indication that the new group is the converged broadband and LMR group.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the visual indication is text displayed on, over, or in the new particular group graphical object identifying the particular LMR radio system.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the visual indication is an icon associated with an LMR radio system.

16. The method of claim 13, the method further comprising:

detecting, by the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application, a third user action taken at the remote client device providing an interface to the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application, the third user action taken including a selection of a particular radio system user graphical object associated with a particular radio system user and a dragging and dropping of the particular radio system user graphical object to the new particular group graphical object associated with the new group, and responsively;

updating, by the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application, the voice stack cloud service associated with the broadband PTT radio system to include the particular radio system user in group audio and presence information routing with respect to the new group;

updating, by the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application via the voice stack cloud service associated with the broadband PTT radio system, existing other broadband mobile radios in the new group that the particular radio system user has been added to the new group; and

where the group type indication indicates that the new group is a converged broadband and LMR group;

updating, by the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application via the voice stack cloud service, the particular LMR radio system that the particular radio system user has been added to the new group.

17. The method of claim 16, the method further comprising:

modifying, by the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application, the new particular group graphical object associated with the new group to provide an updated visual indication that the particular radio system user has been added to the new group.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the updated visual indication that the particular radio system user has been added to the new group comprises an increment in a numerical number of users displayed in or on the new particular group graphical object.

19. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

detecting, by the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application, a third user action taken at the remote client device providing an interface to the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application, the third user action taken including an activation of an LMR radio system graphical object associated with adding a new LMR radio system to the existing broadband PTT radio system, and responsively;

detecting, by the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application, a fourth user action taken at the remote client device including entrance of LMR radio system parameters indicating a type of the new LMR radio system and one or more operational parameters thereof;

updating, by the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application, the voice stack cloud service associated with the broadband PTT radio system to include the new LMR radio system as a further extension of the existing broadband PTT radio system;

registering, by the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application via the voice stack cloud service, at the new LMR radio system, that the new LMR radio system has been added as a further extension to the existing broadband PTT radio system; and

creating, by the cloud-based broadband push-to-talk configuration application, and causing to be displayed at the remote client device, a new LMR radio system graphical object indicative of the added new LMR radio system to the existing broadband PTT radio system.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

adding the new LMR radio system as an option to select one or more LMR radio systems when adding a new converged group to the existing broadband PTT radio system.