METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR PROVISIONING PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATION DEVICES VIA A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK PROTOCOL TO COMMUNICATE WITH ONE ANOTHER IN A COMMON TALK GROUP CONFIGURATION

摘要

Public safety (PS) communication devices are provisioned at an incident scene to communicate with each other in a common talk group configuration. Talk group information is contained in a beacon message that is broadcast by an initiating PS device in an access point mode of operation via a Wi-Fi network protocol compatible with at least one version of IEEE standard 802.11. The beacon message is received via the same Wi-Fi protocol at another PS device in a station mode of operation and processed to configure the other PS device with the talk group information.