Abstract:
A method, an infrastructure controller, and a network for network and resource prediction, identification, and availability include, given an incident at an incident area, predicting network resources needed at the incident based on a plurality of inputs; determining one or more networks at the incident and devices for accessing the one or more networks based on the predicted network resources and the plurality of inputs; and making the predicted network resources available on the one or more networks for the devices, wherein the devices are assigned to the one or more networks instead of making a local decision as to which of the one or more networks is accessed.
Abstract:
A public safety (PS) person having a PS communications device is able to authenticate and authorize operation of a non-PS, personal communications device over a PS network. The PS device issues a challenge, and the personal device responds to the challenge, when the devices are in close proximity. A conditional token having specified conditions is sent to the personal device, which captures information at an incident scene. The personal device attaches the conditional token to the captured information, and uploads the captured information with the attached token to the PS device to permit distribution of the captured information in accordance with the specified conditions of the attached conditional token.
Abstract:
A method and a profile manager for managing user and device profiles for response to one or more incidents include monitoring inputs related to one or more networks, a plurality of devices, and the one or more incidents; determining application requirements and profile configurations for the plurality of devices based on the inputs from the one or more networks and the one or more incidents; and for each of the plurality of devices, providing applications based on the application requirements if required and providing the profile configurations for operation on the one or more networks during the one or more incidents
Abstract:
A wireless receiver, and a method of controlling a wireless receiver. The wireless receiver comprises first and second antennas. The method comprises: receiving a first signal of a first network using both a first antenna and a second antenna and determining that a quality of the first signal is greater than a first threshold quality. In response to determining that the quality of the first signal is greater than the first threshold quality, the second antenna is used for scanning for a second signal of a second network while receiving the signal of the first network using the first antenna. The wireless receiver is configured to switch to the second network if a quality of the second signal is greater than a second threshold quality.