Intelligent alerting of individuals in a public-safety communication system

An apparatus comprising

• an over-the-air transceiver configured to receive over-the-air transmissions comprising conversations among various individuals;
• a database configured to store the conversations and identities of participants of the conversations;
• logic circuitry configured to receive a query, determine query results, determine that the query and/or the query results are of importance, determine that a stored conversation is relevant to the query and/or the query results, determine participants of the stored conversation, and send a notification to the participants of the stored conversation;
• wherein the logic circuitry sends the notification to the participants of the conversation by sending a private message via the transceiver to the participants of the conversation.

A method comprising the steps of:

• receiving over-the-air transmissions comprising conversations among various individuals;
• storing the conversations and identities of participants of the conversations;
• receiving a query;
• determining query results;
• determining that the query and/or the query results are of importance;
• determining that a stored conversation is relevant to the query and/or the query results;
• determining participants of the stored conversation;
• sending a notification to the participants of the stored conversation;
• wherein the step of storing the conversations comprises the steps of:
• transcribing the received over-the-air conversations into a text representation of the conversation;
• determining participants of the conversation;
• storing the text representation of the conversation along with the participants of the conversation;
• wherein the step of receiving the query comprises the step of receiving the query via an over-the-air private channel;
• wherein the step of determining that the query and/or the query results are of importance comprises the step of determining that certain key words exist within the query and/or the query results;
• wherein the step of determining that the stored conversation is relevant to the query and/or the query results comprises the step of determining that certain keywords exist in both the query/query results and the stored conversation;
• wherein the notification comprises the certain keywords;
• and
• wherein the step of sending the notification to the participants of the conversation comprises the step of sending a private message to the participants of the conversation.