Method and apparatus for incorporating pager functionality into a land mobile radio system
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorsKevin L. Haas, David Andrew Chrest, James Cunningham
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Abstract
A land mobile radio system receives paging messages communicated via a paging service communication protocol, decodes the paging messages to identify respective target recipients of the paging messages and determines whether the target recipients are members of a user group. If a target recipient is a member of the user group, a communication unit (e.g., radio or console) of the target recipient is identified, the message is converted to an appropriate protocol (e.g., a wireless protocol) and sent to the communication unit.
Claims13
In a radio communication system including a plurality of subscribers defining a user group, the subscribers having wireless subscriber units operable to receive messages communicated via a first wireless communication protocol, a method comprising:
- receiving a message communicated via a second wireless communication protocol;
- determining a target recipient of the message;
- if the target recipient is a member of the user group, identifying a subscriber unit associated with the target recipient;
- and
- if the subscriber unit is logged on the radio communication system, sending the message to the subscriber unit via the first wireless communication protocol.
In a radio communication system including a plurality of users defining a user group, a method comprising:
- receiving a paging message communicated via a paging service communication protocol;
- determining a target recipient of the paging message;
- if the target recipient is a member of the user group,
- identifying a communication unit associated with the target recipient, the communication unit being operable to receive messages communicated via a wireless protocol other than the paging service communication protocol;
- and
- if the communication unit is logged on the radio communication system, converting the paging message to the wireless protocol, yielding a converted message, and sending the converted message to the communication unit.
A radio communication system comprising:
- a receiver operable to receive paging messages communicated via a paging service communication protocol;
- a decoder operable to decode the paging messages to identify respective target recipients of the paging messages;
- a paging server for determining whether the target recipients are members of a user group and, if a target recipient is a member of the user group, identifying a communication unit associated with the target recipient;
- a controller for converting the paging message to a wireless protocol of the communication unit, yielding a converted message;
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- a transmitter for sending the converted message to the communication unit associated with the target recipient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.