Patent ID: 9271311
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method carried out by a mobile incident-area-network (IAN) base station having a plurality of selectable operating modes, the plurality of selectable operating modes including an activated mode and a dormant mode, the method comprising: determining at least one location in a local region of the mobile IAN base station while the mobile IAN base station is in the dormant mode; submitting, to a geo-location-database (GDB) function, an activation permission request that includes the determined at least one location for processing by the GDB function; receiving, from the GDB function, an activation-permission response associated with the submitted activation-permission request, wherein the received activation-permission response is based at least in part on an expected level of wide area-network (WAN) coverage associated with the determined at least one location; transitioning the mobile IAN base station to the activated mode in response to confirming each activation criterion in a set of one or more activation criteria, the set of one or more activation criteria comprising the received activation-permission response being an activation-permission grant; and remaining in the dormant mode in response to failing to confirm at least one activation criterion in the set of one or more activation criteria.