Patent ID: 8194682

Claim:
A method for communicating land mobile radio (LMR) content, said method comprising: automatically detecting by a first LMR unit a location thereof; automatically selecting, by said first LMR unit, a first LMR network protocol from a plurality of LMR network protocols based on said location of said first LMR unit, said first LMR network protocol including a first application-layer protocol for an application layer of a first LMR protocol stack and a first transport-layer protocol for a transport layer of said first LMR protocol stack; generating, by said first LMR unit, said LMR content using a second application-layer protocol of a second LMR network protocol, said second LMR network protocol and said second application-layer protocol being respectively different than said first LMR network protocol and said first application-layer protocol; encapsulating, by said first LMR unit, said LMR content using said first transport-layer protocol; communicating the encapsulated LMR content over a first RF coverage area of an LMR network; re-encapsulating said LMR content using a second transport-layer protocol of said second LMR network protocol, said second transport-layer protocol different than said first transport-layer protocol; and forwarding said re-encapsulated LMR content over a second RF coverage area of said LMR network; wherein said second application-layer protocol is unchanged during communication of said LMR content over said second RF coverage area of said LMR network.