Patent ID: 7188184

Claim:
An information service system which controls access to multiple types of applications, comprising: information systems which support multiple types of integrated law enforcement applications, including personal applications, law enforcement competency applications, and law enforcement administrative applications; a portal for standardized law enforcement access to the information systems; wherein the portal comprises a content display which is a function of time, date, and a portal user, and wherein the portal comprises an application server operable to subdivide access to the information systems and applications into multiple security zones in which user identification is a function of the security zones and in which the multiple security zones comprise: an Internet security zone which implements guest access to the information systems without implementing an identification procedure; an Extranet security zone which implements trusted access to the information systems and through which access is granted to a first type of application and access is refused to a second type of application in the multiple types of applications and that implements a username and password identification procedure; and an Intranet security zone which provides law enforcement terminal access to both the first and second types of applications and that implements a username and biometric identification procedure for authorizing law enforcement access to the multiple types of the integrated law enforcement applications; and wherein portal provides integrated access to the multiple types of integrated law enforcement applications according to the security zones; and wherein the law enforcement competency applications are operable to deliver an interactive learning program training offer to the portal user and operable to reserve a training place for the portal user.