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US 10,375,760 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for notifying a user that a device needs to be cleaned and/or serviced
AssigneeMotorola Solutions, Inc.
InventorsGeng Xiang Lee, Anoop Sehgal Paras Ram, Bing Qin Lim, Rm Muthaiah Ramanathan, Chun Meng Tan
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for notifying a user that a device needs to be serviced is provided herein. During operation, a device will determine that at least the first device has been serviced or needs to be serviced. When this occurs, the device will determine members of a personal-area-network (PAN) that includes/included the first device, and notify a user that the PAN members should be serviced as well.
Claims6
An apparatus comprising:
- a personal-area network (PAN) transceiver configured to form a PAN with a plurality of sensors and/or accessories by communicating with the plurality of sensors and/or accessories, wherein the communication utilizes a short-range wireless communication system protocol;
- a wide-area network (WAN) transceiver configured to receive a computer-aided dispatch identification (CAD ID) from a dispatch center, wherein the CAD ID identifies a public-safety incident;
- a database comprising identifications of the smart sensors and/or accessories that were members of the PAN during the public-safety incident;
- and logic circuitry configured to access the database and determine the sensors and/or accessories that need cleaning, wherein the sensors and/or accessories that need cleaning comprise the sensors and/or accessories that formed the PAN during the public-safety incident,
- wherein the PAN transceiver is configured to receive an indication that a PAN device has been cleaned or is in need of cleaning.
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A method comprising the steps of:
- forming a PAN by communicating with a plurality of sensors and/or accessories utilizing a personal-area network (PAN) transceiver, wherein the communication utilizes a short-range wireless communication system protocol;
- receiving a computer-aided dispatch identification (CAD ID) from a dispatch center via a wide-area network (WAN) transceiver, wherein the CAD ID identifies a public-safety incident;
- and accessing a database comprising identifications of the smart sensors and/or accessories that were members of the PAN during the public-safety incident;
- and determining smart sensors and/or accessories that need cleaning, wherein the sensors and/or accessories that need cleaning comprise the sensors and/or accessories that formed the PAN during the public-safety incident,
- wherein the CAD ID comprises an identification of a fire, and the sensors and/or accessories that for the PAN were at the fire.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a personal-area network (PAN) transceiver configured to form a PAN with a plurality of sensors and/or accessories by communicating with the plurality of sensors and/or accessories, wherein the communication utilizes a short-range wireless communication system protocol;
- a wide-area network (WAN) transceiver configured to receive a computer-aided dispatch identification (CAD ID) from a dispatch center that identifies a public-safety event comprising a fire;
- a database comprising identifications of the smart sensors and/or accessories that were members of the PAN during the fire;
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- logic circuitry configured to access the database and determine the sensors and/or accessories that need cleaning, wherein the sensors and/or accessories that need cleaning comprise the sensors and/or accessories that formed the PAN during the fire.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.