Patent ID: 8811940
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system for establishing an incident communications network that enables interoperable communications among communications resources controlled by multiple parties during an incident, wherein each communications resource is controlled by an administrator within an organization or an individual, comprising: an incident controller; a communications resource database coupled to the incident controller configured to store communications resources information; a marshalling rules module coupled to the incident controller configured to store a set of rules, wherein a marshaling rule identifies how to select communications resources to be marshaled into the incident communications network based on an incident trigger; and a resource tracking module coupled to the communications resource database configured to track the availability of communications resources, wherein the incident controller is configured such that upon receipt of an incident trigger the incident controller establishes the incident communications network by obtaining a marshalling rule based on the received incident trigger from the marshalling rules module and marshals communications resources based on the marshalling rule accessed from the marshalling rules module, wherein the resource tracking module is configured to marshal communications resources in order of priority and/or availability, in substitution of an initially specified communications resource or other substitute communications resources when a substitute communications resource is unavailable.