SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COMMUNICATION RESOURCES TO WIRELESS DISPATCH PRIORITY USERS

摘要

A wireless push-to-talk (PTT) communication system (100) assigns a special dispatch priority to for emergency communications to and from police, fire dept. or communications to other emergency personnel. A communication which has been assigned dispatch priority takes precedence over all other non-dispatch priority communications for initially completing the call and maintaining the communications links. An indication of dispatch priority in a IxCV-DO system may be achieved by setting a bit in the RequestReason field (604) of the ConnectionRequest message (602).