Robin Wallace Grier

US Patent:

59998202, Dec 7, 1999

Filed:

Apr 30, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/835849

Inventors:

Surja Sutanto - Lynchburg VA
Robin Wallace Grier - Lynchburg VA
Thomas E. Powell - Lynchburg VA
David William Helfrich - Lynchburg VA

Assignee:

Ericsson Inc. - Research Triangle Park NC

International Classification:

H04B 700

US Classification:

455508

Abstract:

A dispatch console for a radio system is disclosed, where the radio system includes an audio switching tower which routes audio communications between a switching device and audio input/output devices at the dispatch console. The dispatch console includes a personal computer for communicating command messages to the audio switching tower, the personal computer storing information on numerous audio communications initiated and terminated in the radio system. The dispatch console further includes a device connected to the personal computer permitting an operator of said display console to interface therewith and a display screen segmented into a plurality of windows. At least one of the windows represents a communication module presenting information with respect to a particular talk group of the radio system, with each communication module including a callee area for displaying an alias for the talk group programmed on the communication module, a caller area for displaying an alias for a radio unit in the talk group when a call from the radio unit has been activated, a call area for displaying a call type for a call activated by a radio unit in the talk group, and a list box displaying a predetermined number of radio units in the talk group which have activated calls.