Patent ID: 9332431
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of enabling a public safety (PS) person having a PS communications device operative over a PS network, to authenticate and authorize operation over the PS network of a non-PS, personal communications device, operative over a non-PS network, the method comprising: generating a challenge; issuing to the personal device, by a PS device over the PS network, the challenge over a first, wireless channel; issuing, by the personal device to the PS device, a response to the challenge over a second, wireless channel different from the first channel; verifying the response; in response to verifying the response to the challenge over the second, wireless channel, generating a conditional token having specified conditions under which the personal device is permitted to distribute information associated with an emergency incident upon meeting the specified conditions over the PS network; sending, by the PS device to the personal device, the conditional token; capturing information at an emergency incident scene by operation of the personal device; attaching, by the personal device, the conditional token to the captured information, and uploading, by the personal device, the captured information with the attached conditional token, wherein, upon meeting the specified conditions, the captured information is distributed to one or more other PS devices located at the emergency incident scene over the PS network.