Patent ID: 7746794

Claim:
A method for managing one or more resources providing alerting and first responder services to a community of people and one or more data sources distributed for reporting public safety conditions in the community, the method comprising: monitoring public safety conditions of the community at a management console; recognizing anomalies in data received from the one or more data sources, visualizing at the management console the recognition of the anomalies and a causal relationship between each of the anomalies and one or more of the resources providing alerting and first responder services to the community; providing information regarding each of the anomalies to at least the resources identified by the causal relationship; managing at the management console the causal relationships between the anomalies and the resources providing alerting and first responder services so as to marshal appropriate resources in response to recognition of one of the anomalies; and visualizing at the management console the marshalling of the appropriate resources.