Operator Supervisor for Fleet Management DispatchBand- Jobs in Afghanistan

The use of alternative embodiments of origination address 60 does not depart from the spirit of the present invention. An origination unit 26 is configured to generate information packet 22. System 20 dispatches information packet 22 from origination unit 26 to a destination unit 28. The path information packet 22 takes between origination unit 26 and destination unit 28 is a simplex path.

Following task 194 and within a voice-extraction element 200 (FIG. 14), a voice-frame query task 202 determines if destination packet (D-PKT) 52 contains voice frame (V-FRM) 54. 12 shows a flow chart depicting a subprocess 164 for routing information packet 22 from server 42 to destination unit 28 in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Following subprocess 108, origination packet 50 has arrived at an origination portion 116 of server 42 (FIGS. 1 and 11). Process 68 then executes configuring subprocess 114 (FIGS. 6 and 10) to configure origination packet (O-PKT) 50 as destination packet (D-PKT) 52.

Information packet 22 is then routed through an origination server node 40 of network 24 to a server 42. Network 24 assigns NCSS channels for this communication, which channels occupy much less spectrum and consume much less power than a CSS channel. The method of claim 27 wherein transmitting includes transmitting an information packet specifying a logical destination address identifying destination units to which said information packet is to be dispatched. In a typical scenario, an appropriate devocoder decodes the origination voice frame 54 to reproduce voice signal 76.

Within a text-frame element 142 (FIG. 11) following tasks 138 or 140, a text-frame query task 144 (FIG. 10) determines if destination packet (D-PKT) 52 is to contain a text frame (T-FRM) 56. Network 24 (FIG. 1) performs Routing subprocess 108 (FIGS. 6 and 9) to route origination packet (O-PKT) 50 from origination unit 26 to server 42. In this way, the use of non-circuit-switching services 106 serves to reduce the allocation and transmission time.

This completes subprocess 114 and control is returned to process 68 (FIG. 6). The field units in some PTT dispatch systems do not normally have the ability to intercommunicate. That is, the field units in a system normally all transmit on frequency “B” and receive on frequency “A.” No field unit can then receive the transmission from another field unit. This lack of intercommunication necessitates that a typical field unit may convey information to another field unit only through the dispatch unit. This places an additional burden upon the dispatcher and slows down the conveyance of intelligence, making coordinated efforts more difficult. The dispatching unit of a PTT system is different in kind to the field units.

This non-interchangeability extends beyond physical constraints and into the areas of licensing and legislation. Therefore, a small rural volunteer fire department on a tight budget is constrained from using donated taxi dispatching systems. A major one of these problems is Labor Dispatch App that PTT systems are typically proprietary. That is, the equipment for a given system is often made by a single manufacturer. This obliges the user/owner to deal with this single manufacturer.

The method of claim 27 wherein said routing includes routing said information packet in response to a physical address identifying a destination unit to which said information packet is to be dispatched. The method of claim 29 wherein exchanging includes uploading from said origination unit to said telecommunication network parameters specifying a voice versus text preference for said origination unit. Information packet 22 is converted from origination packet 50 to destination packet 52 by a configuration portion 66 of server 42.

As discussed hereinbefore in conjunction with origination packet 50, destination packet header 58 contains a form of physical destination address 64 allowing network 24 to route destination packet 52 to destination unit 28. Like origination packet 50, destination packet 52 has an origination address (O-ADDR) 60 in the desired embodiment. Origination address 60 uniquely identifies origination unit 26, at least within the domain of units 26/28 served by server 42.

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