Patent ID: 8203942

Claim:
A system for managing a plurality of wireless communications resources comprising multiple communications channels and a plurality of wireless transmitters associated therewith, the system comprising: a message prioritization module configured to continuously prioritize incoming messages from a plurality of client applications based upon a current military mission mode, wherein the military mission mode comprises a command and control mission mode selected from the group consisting of ingress, egress, normal operations, “under attack”, and search and rescue, said message prioritization module outputting a prioritized message list in response thereto; and a message steering module configured to steer said prioritized messages to a most suitable wireless communications resource of the plurality of wireless communications resources in response to said prioritized message list and a calculated transmitter priority for each of the plurality of wireless transmitters, wherein said message steering module dynamically selects a most suitable wireless communications transmitter from the plurality of associated wireless transmitters for a message with a highest priority by calculating the wireless communications transmitter priority for each wireless communications resource based on a plurality of factors selected from the group consisting of a transmitter availability, a waveform compatibility, an operator or system specified preference, end-to-end throughput to a destination, a transmitter performance, a current queue size, and an expected latency, and by determining a suitability of each associated wireless transmitter to transmit said message with the highest priority over a most effective path by using realtime performance feedback from the plurality of associated wireless transmitters, wherein each of the plurality of wireless transmitters are configured to operate on a different communication channel of the multiple communications channels.