Method, device, and system for managing a formation of electronically-embedded intelligent shields

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10914557-B2
Application number	US-201616334847-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 9, 2016
Priority date	Dec 9, 2016
Publication date	Feb 9, 2021
Grant date	Feb 9, 2021

Abstract

A process for managing a formation of intelligent electronically-embedded intelligent shields includes first receiving, from a plurality of primary officer and intelligent shield pairs, first location information and pressure information measured at a pressure sensor coupled to the intelligent shield and indicative of a pressure being applied to a front and/or rear face of the intelligent shield. The received pressure information is then compared to a threshold pressure value to identify those shields exceeding the threshold. Then a particular secondary support officer is identified for aiding the particular primary officer, after which either a redeployment message is transmitted to the particular secondary support officer or an indication instruction is transmitted to the intelligent shield in the particular primary officer and intelligent shield pair.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for managing a formation of intelligent electronically-embedded intelligent shields, the method comprising:
receiving, at a computing device, from each of a plurality of primary officer and intelligent shield pairs, first location information associated with the primary officer and intelligent shield pair and pressure information measured at a pressure sensor coupled to the intelligent shield and indicative of a pressure being applied to a front and/or rear face of the intelligent shield;
comparing, by the computing device and for each of the primary officer and intelligent shield pairs, received pressure information to a threshold pressure value stored at the computing device and identifying, by the computing device as a result of the comparing, a particular primary officer and intelligent shield pair providing a particular received pressure information exceeding the threshold pressure value, and responsively:
identifying, by the computing device via second location information provided via a plurality of secondary support officer and mobile radio computing device pairs, a particular secondary support officer to aid the particular primary officer; and
one or both of (i) causing, by the computing device, a redeployment message to be transmitted to the particular secondary support officer via a particular mobile radio computing device paired with the particular secondary support officer instructing the particular secondary support officer to aid the particular primary officer and including the first location information associated with the particular primary officer, and (ii) causing, by the computing device, an indication instruction to be transmitted to the intelligent shield in the particular primary officer and intelligent shield pair instructing the intelligent shield to activate an externally perceivable indication to aid the particular secondary support officer in locating a location of the primary officer and intelligent shield pair.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first location information associated with the particular primary officer and intelligent shield pair is global positioning system (GPS) coordinates of the particular primary officer and intelligent shield pair.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first location information associated with the primary officer and intelligent shield pair is a formation position indication indicating a position of the primary officer and intelligent shield pair within a formation formed by the plurality of primary officer and intelligent shield pairs.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the threshold pressure value stored at the computing device is a predetermined value applied to each of the primary officer and intelligent shield pairs.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the threshold pressure value stored at the computing device varies for each primary officer and intelligent shield pair out of the primary officer and intelligent shield pairs as a function of determined characteristics of one or both of the intelligent shield and the primary officer in the primary intelligent shield and primary officer pair.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the threshold pressure value stored at the computing device varies for each primary officer and intelligent shield pair out of the primary officer and intelligent shield pairs as a function of determined characteristics of the primary officer in the primary intelligent shield and primary officer pair, the determined characteristics of the primary officer in the primary intelligent shield and primary officer pair including one or more of a height, weight, and health history of the primary officer.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the threshold pressure value stored at the computing device varies for each primary officer and intelligent shield pair out of the primary officer and intelligent shield pairs as a function of determined characteristics of the intelligent shield in the primary intelligent shield and primary officer pair, the determined characteristics of the intelligent shield including one or more of a material of the intelligent shield, a type of the pressure sensor, a location of the pressure sensor on the intelligent shield, and an orientation of the intelligent shield.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method comprises causing, by the computing device, the redeployment message to be transmitted to the particular secondary support officer via a particular mobile radio computing device paired with the particular secondary support officer instructing the particular secondary support officer to aid the particular primary officer and including the first location information associated with the particular primary officer.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the step of identifying the particular secondary support officer comprises identifying the particular secondary support officer, as a function of the second location information, having a closest location to a first location of the particular primary officer.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the step of identifying the particular secondary support officer comprises identifying the particular secondary support officer, as a function of short-range device scan information received from one of the particular primary intelligent shield in the particular primary officer and intelligent shield pair and a mobile radio computing device associated with the particular primary officer in the first particular primary officer and intelligent shield pair, out of one or more available secondary support officer and mobile radio computing device pairs identified in the short-range device scan information.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the step of identifying the particular secondary support officer comprises identifying the particular secondary support officer, as a function of stored physical characteristic information associated with each of the plurality of the secondary support officers, sufficient to compensate for a difference between the particular received pressure information and the threshold pressure value.

12. The method of claim 8 , wherein the redeployment message is caused to be transmitted to the particular secondary support officer via a personal area network (PAN), vehicle area network (VAN), local area network (LAN), ad-hoc network (AHN), or disruption tolerant network (DTN).

13. The method of claim 8 , wherein the redeployment message is caused to be transmitted to the particular secondary support officer via an infrastructure network.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method comprises causing, by the computing device, an instruction to be transmitted to the particular primary intelligent shield in the particular primary officer and intelligent shield pair instructing the particular primary intelligent shield to activate an externally perceivable indication to aid the particular secondary support officer in locating a location of the particular primary officer and intelligent shield pair.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the externally perceivable indication is one of a visual light source having a particular color associated with a request for support due to a threshold level of pressure being exceeded, and a particular audio tone having a particular tone, pitch, or frequency associated with a request for support due to a threshold level of pressure being exceeded.

16. The method of claim 1 , further comprising causing, by the computing device, a voice channel access priority of mobile radios associated with one or both of the particular primary officer and the particular secondary support officer

Assignees

• Motorola Solutions Inc
• Wojcik Wojciech
• Wawrowski Mariusz

Inventors

• Wojcik Wojciech
• Wawrowski Mariusz

Classifications

• H04L67/306 Primary

  User profiles · CPC title

• H04L67/52

  specially adapted for the location of the user terminal · CPC title

• F41H5/08 Primary

  for personal use {, i.e. hand held shields} · CPC title

• H04W4/026

  using orientation information, e.g. compass · CPC title

• H04W4/02

  Services making use of location information · CPC title