US 12,229,724 B2
Data collaboration between separate computer-aided dispatch systems
Phillip Henry Barrett, Owens Cross Roads, AL (US)
Assigned to Intergraph Corporation, Madison, AL (US)
Filed by Intergraph Corporation, Madison, AL (US)
Filed on Dec. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/566,387.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/208,454, filed on Jun. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0391847 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01); G06Q 10/101 (2023.01); G06Q 50/26 (2024.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC G06Q 10/101 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/063114 (2013.01); G06Q 50/26 (2013.01); H04L 63/101 (2013.01); H04L 63/104 (2013.01); H04L 63/105 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-based communication platform comprising:
a portal generator configured to generate a plurality of separate portals, each portal being accessible by a plurality of municipal groups, each municipal group of the plurality of municipal groups having:
(i) a corresponding computer aided dispatch system; and
(ii) a corresponding secured database, the corresponding secured database accessible to the municipal group, but not directly accessible by other municipal groups of the plurality of municipal groups, the corresponding secured database having different information from the information held in at least one of the other secured database of another municipal group of the plurality of municipal groups
such that each portal of the plurality of separate portals is coupled to a plurality of such corresponding secured databases from a corresponding plurality of municipal groups;
a registrar configured to:
(a) register, to the platform, each municipal group of the plurality of municipal groups, each such municipal group being a registered municipal group; and to
(b) assign, for each registered municipal group, access to at least one of the portals as a function of information relating to registering said registered municipal group, each such registered member being a registered member of its corresponding assigned portal;
a database interface configured to communicate with the secured databases corresponding to the plurality of municipal groups;
a database manager configured to selectively grant access to a secured database of the plurality of municipal groups for each of the portals, said secured database being one of the plurality of such corresponding secured databases and said secured database being a requested database, said access being granted access for a given portal being a function of the registered municipal group requesting access and/or a specific requester, the granted access being for less than the entirety of the requested database, and wherein:
the database manager is further configurable to permit different database access levels to different municipal groups and/or specific requesters, and wherein
the database manager is configured to assign access based on one or more of a type of municipal group, a member's job rank within the registered municipal group, or a member's duration of employment within the registered municipal group; and
a display manager configured to display selected information retrieved from the secured databases and showing updates, the display being configured to display different groups of information in one of a plurality of different orders.