Patent ID: 8005937

Claim:
A method for dynamically integrating disparate computer-aided dispatch systems to provide clustering and interoperability between the disparate computer-aided dispatch systems, the method comprising: providing a common exchange information hub; communicatively connecting a plurality of computer-aided dispatch systems to the hub; deriving common data elements at the hub representing shared data aspects between the plurality of computer-aided dispatch systems, the shared data aspects comprising: a public-safety resource capable of being assigned from one computer-aided dispatch system to another computer-aided dispatch system; and data relating to a public safety situation of interest to more than one computer-aided dispatch system; mapping data elements of each connected computer-aided dispatch system to the common data element of the hub; and facilitating communication between the computer-aided dispatch systems through the hub by transforming information from a first computer-aided dispatch system into a format understood at a second computer-aided dispatch system using the mapping of the common data elements, comprising: utilizing mapping of the data elements of the first computer-aided dispatch system to transform the information from the first computer-aided dispatch system into a common format utilized by the hub; and utilizing mapping of the data elements of the second computer-aided dispatch system to transform the information from the common format utilized by the hub into the format understood at the second computer-aided dispatch system.