PUBLIC SAFETY WARNING NETWORK
First Claim
1. A method of installing a community-wide emergency response network comprising:
- upgrading an infrastructure supporting a public safety system comprising a plurality of sites distributed about the community to include one or more transceivers at each of the sites that cooperates with transceivers at other ones of the sites to provide the community-wide emergency response network; and
adding one or more network-enabled, trusted resources to the community-wide emergency response network such that each resource is enabled to communicate with another one of the resources or sites by way of the network.
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Abstract
A communications infrastructure is upgraded to a public safety network that supports wireless communications of emergency information. Communities have installed public safety communications systems such as community warning siren systems that rely on point-to-point communications systems. Each site in the system is upgraded to a node in a wireless network that provides the communications infrastructure for a network-enabled public safety communications system that enables trusted resources such as warning sirens to access the network and communicate with other trusted resources across the network. Additionally, the public safety network may be patched using mobile transceivers to form an ad hoc network in the event part of the infrastructure supporting the emergency response network is lost. Additionally, the upgrading of the communications system may include a public access network that relies on at least some of the same communications sites or nodes employed by the public safety network.
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32 Claims
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1. A method of installing a community-wide emergency response network comprising:
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upgrading an infrastructure supporting a public safety system comprising a plurality of sites distributed about the community to include one or more transceivers at each of the sites that cooperates with transceivers at other ones of the sites to provide the community-wide emergency response network; and
adding one or more network-enabled, trusted resources to the community-wide emergency response network such that each resource is enabled to communicate with another one of the resources or sites by way of the network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of deploying a community-wide public access network comprising:
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upgrading an infrastructure supporting a public safety system comprising a plurality of sites distributed about the community to include at least one transceiver at each of the sites to provide the community-wide public access network; and
deploying at least one additional transceiver at a site outside of the sites comprising the public safety system for communicating with at least one of the plurality of sites upgraded to support the community-wide public access network. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A method of deploying a public safety network comprising:
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upgrading an infrastructure supporting a public safety system comprising a plurality of sites distributed about a community to include a transceiver at each of the sites that cooperates with transceivers at other ones of the sites to provide the public safety network; and
connecting one or more mobile, network-enabled, trusted resources to an upgraded one of the plurality of sites to enable each of the one or more connected resources to communicate with other resources in the public safety network. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27)
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28. A method of deploying and communicating with a public safety resource in a community, the method comprising:
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upgrading a node of a communications infrastructure supporting a community-wide network to include one or more dedicated public safety resources in communication with a public safety control center via the community-wide network; and
managing the one or more public safety resources by way of the communications between the control center and the one or more public safety resources. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32)
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