Patent ID: 8448070

Claim:
An apparatus for generating a graphical user interface for permitting a user to interface with a communication network comprising: a computing device configured to: provide a first graphical user interface within a display window comprising static elements including a plurality of User Interface (UI) controls and informational display modules, the UI controls facilitating the interface with and control of the communication network, and the informational display modules facilitating the display of information useful for coordinating efforts of field personnel; receive an incident report that was input into the communication network after commencement of a temporal incident concerning at least one of a physical object, a person and a geographic location; dynamically select, in real-time, a subset of the UI controls and the informational display modules that are useful for activating services necessary to respond to the temporal incident described in the incident report, which temporal incident the user is intended to address via communications on the communication network; dynamically generate a second graphical user interface including the subset of UI controls and the informational display modules which were previously dynamically selected based on the contents of the incident report, said second graphical user interface being separate and distinct from said first graphical user interface; and display the second graphical user interface while the first graphical user interface is being displayed in the display window; wherein the first graphical user interface and the second graphical user interface are provided by different software packages.