Appeal No. 1999-0085 Application No. 08/427,514 Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows: 1. In a radio communication system, a method of providing distributed operational control comprising the steps of: linking a plurality of autonomously operable computer systems to a radio communication database via a computer network; at a particular computer system selected from the plurality of autonomously operable computer systems: storing data in a local database corres- ponding to a view of the radio communication database; storing, in a radio system control module, a radio system personality profile corresponding to the local database; automatically maintaining consistency between the local database and the radio communication database; retrieving version information for the radio system personality profile stored in the radio system control module; updating the radio system personality profile in the radio system control module according to the local database when the version information retrieved for the radio system personality profile is not consistent with information stored on the local database; configuring a radio system console operator 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007