BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Dispatch operations are increasingly centralized through consolidation of dispatch centers. This may result in a need for command and control centers that are capable of interfacing with multiple independent radio systems.

A dispatcher monitoring resources from multiple radio systems may need to represent themselves on each radio system according to identities managed independently by those radio systems. In addition, dispatchers may need to fulfill different job functions depending, for example, on the situational need.

In current systems, a Push To Talk (PTT) Identity can be provisioned to a console, but using different PTT IDs from multiple systems is problematic. To use a different PTT ID requires the provisioning authority to push new information to the console or requires the user to move to a different position to use the new PTT ID.

Therefore a need exists for a method and console server that can use IDs from different systems without suffering from the problems associated with prior art systems.

