Method and apparatus for managing group-based emergency notifications and acknowledgments

摘要

Group-based emergency notifications and acknowledgments are managed via a radio controller. A request to transmit an emergency notification with acknowledgment to an identified target group of subscriber devices is received at the radio controller from a requesting device. The radio controller identifies one or more base stations actively serving subscriber devices associated with the identified target group and identifies, for each of the identified one or more base stations, active channels including one or more of a control channel associated with the base station and active voice or data channels associated with the base station. The radio controller causes an emergency notification outbound signaling packet (OSP), requesting individual acknowledgment and identifying the target group of subscriber devices, to be broadcast on the identified active channels at the identified one or more base stations. Acknowledgments are forwarded back to one of the requesting device and a dispatch console.

主权项

1. A method for managing group-based emergency notifications and acknowledgments, the method comprising:
receiving, at a radio controller, a request to transmit an emergency notification with acknowledgment to an identified target group of subscriber devices; identifying, at the radio controller, one or more base stations actively serving the subscriber devices associated with the identified target group; identifying, at the radio controller and for each of the identified one or more base stations, all active channels across every one of the identified one or more base stations including at least a first active control channel associated with a first one of the identified one or more base stations and a first active voice or data channel associated with the first one of the identified one or more base stations; causing, by the radio controller, an emergency notification outbound signaling packet (OSP), requesting individual acknowledgment and identifying the identified target group of subscriber devices, to be broadcast on the identified all active channels.