Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Motorola Corporation

Jari P Jarvinen

Craig F Siddoway

Shirish M Kaner

Chi T Tran

Scott H Richards

Ryan M Nilsen

Melanie King

Jody H Akens

Sean Regan

Michael J Page

Shijie Hua

Erin B Bryant

SokHui Khoo

Mark T Palmer

Sih Hau Tan

Beng Hooi Toh

Eric Johnson

Bert Van Zaag

Craig Siddoway

A communication system () provides a portable radio () that retrieves public safety records in response to a verbal query entered thereto. The communication system () includes a bot gateway () for accessing and retrieving the public safety records from a plurality of remote public safety databases in response to the verbal query entered into the portable radio. The bot gateway () determines a criticality level for the retrieved public safety records. The bot gateway () temporarily stores the retrieved public safety records and sends a criticality code to the portable radio. The portable radio generates user alerts indicating the criticality level of the retrieved public safety records based on the code. The portable radio plays out the bot-retrieved search results in response to a further user input to the portable radio.

Voice interface alert management

A battery-operated communication device for temporary hands-free voice interaction may include a microphone that is configured to receive sound and a processor that is communicatively coupled to the microphone and is configured to receive a first trigger to enable hands-free operation, initiate hands-free operation, receive audio input using the microphone, compare a portion of the audio input to one or more predetermined audio commands, determine whether the portion corresponds to a matching command of the predetermined audio commands, and process the matching command based on a determination that the portion corresponds to the matching command. The first trigger may correspond to a remote user request, an event location, a location condition, or any combination of a remote user request, event location, and location condition.

Method and apparatus for temporary hands-free voice interaction

A multi-position rotary control provides authentication for a battery operated portable communication device. The rotary control provides a rotary switch pin code which is combined with voice authentication as part of an authentication process. Upon completion of authentication, the rotary control reverts back to a default radio control.

Multi position rotary switch operating as a security pin

An improved user interface is provided for a front control panel () of a vehicular mobile radio () operating in a public safety environment. A multifunction control indicator is formed of a mode indicator light ring () co-located about a perimeter of a multifunction control knob (). The multifunction control knob () controls two or more radio functions, such as volume and channel change. The mode indicator light ring () generates different lighting configurations in response to the multifunction control knob () being pressed to change radio functions. Numerous radio functions can be monitored and controlled via the multifunction control knob () and mode indicator light ring ().

Multifunction control indicator for a vehicular mobile radio

Control head for a mobile radio

A radio communication device () for use in a public safety vehicle is provided with a user interface that combines tactile landmarks in the form of global tactile landmarks and local tactile landmarks along with affordances to orient a user's hand and fingers in conjunction with a sequential task flow interface) for mission critical tasks. Communication device () comprises a housing () having mission critical controls () comprising a pursuit dial () mounted on a circular platform () with siren controls () and light controls () grouped on either side of the platform. The mission critical controls () are laid out in a manner that provides a sequential user flow across escalating urgency. Ridges (), chamfered edges () and edge reliefs () provide further affordances so that a user can intuitively position hand and fingers to locate various controls without having to visually focus on the communication device, thus allowing the user to focus on the current mission.

User interface for a vehicle installed communication device

Control device for public safety vehicle

Communication device

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Coral Springs, FL, United States of America

Jari P Jarvinen