Patent ID: 8433763

Claim:
A computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system, comprising: a database for storing critical data and non-critical data originated at a plurality of CAD stations; a manager that manages access to the critical data and the non-critical data stored in the database; and the plurality of CAD stations communicatively connected to the manager and to each other, wherein: while the manager is available, each one of the plurality of CAD stations transmits the critical data and the non-critical data originated at the CAD station to the manager and receives the critical data and the non-critical data originated at one or more other ones of the plurality of CAD stations from the manager; and while the manager is unavailable, each one of the plurality of CAD stations transmits the critical data originated at the CAD station directly to all other ones of the plurality of CAD stations and receives the critical data originated at the one or more other ones of the plurality of CAD stations directly from the one or more other ones of the plurality of CAD stations.