Patent ID: 9008607
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. In a two-way radio frequency (RF) communications system having a plurality of subscriber units and a supporting infrastructure including at least one fixed terminal and a wireless core network, the method comprising: receiving, at a network management console device via an input interface of the network management console or from a subscriber unit via an input/output interface of the network management console, a service request indicating one of a device, application, and transport link in the supporting infrastructure that will be removed from service; identifying, by the network management console device, one or more subscriber units out of the plurality of subscriber units that will be impacted by the removal from service; determining, by the network management console device via access to agency dispatch information associated with the plurality of subscriber units, whether any one of the one or more subscriber units is currently involved in responding to an incident; for each subscriber unit determined to be currently involved in responding to the incident, determining, by the network management console device, a type of the respective incident being responded to and whether the type of the incident is of a non-interruptible incident type; and responsive to determining that a particular one of the one or more subscriber units is currently involved in responding to the incident of the non-interruptible incident type: