Patent ID: 8761792

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving an indication of a request for a communications resource; determining a type of a source of the request, the type of the source comprising one of a commercial user or a public safety user; analyzing a database of communications resources based on the type of the source, wherein: when the type of the source comprises a commercial user, analyzing the database for resources associated with a commercial user; and when the type of the source comprises a public safety user, analyzing the database for resources associated with a public safety user, the communications resources comprising: shared communications resources that are designated as being shared by public safety users and commercial user; and communications resources that are not shared, wherein the database concurrently comprises: a predetermined indication of preemptability status for each communications resource therein; a first indication that at least one shared communications resource of the database of communications resources is assigned to a commercial user and is preemptable; and a second indication that at least one shared communications resource of the database of communications resources is assigned to a public safety user and is not preemptable; and allocating a communications resource from the database of resources in accordance with the analyzing.