Patent ID: 9615261
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for task-based allocation of host services at an incident scene, comprising: determining task assignments for a plurality of users at the incident scene, each of the plurality of users associated with a corresponding mobile device that is initially within wireless local area network coverage at the incident scene; identifying a group of the plurality of users performing a same or similar function near one another or at a same area; determining, based on the determined task assignments for the plurality of users in the identified group, that the identified group and their respective mobile devices are likely to be separated from the wireless local area network at the incident scene; and in response to determining that the identified group and their respective mobile devices are likely to be separated from the wireless local area network, while the identified group and their respective mobile devices are still within the wireless local area network and before the identified group and their respective mobile devices become separated from the wireless local area network, newly allocating a host service instance on at least one mobile device in the identified group on which the host service instance was not previously allocated to replicate an existing host service instance already allocated at another mobile device in the wireless local area network that is not in the identified group, the newly allocated host service instance for providing host client/server-based services to the remaining mobile devices in the identified group.