Use and management of groups defined according to a call initiation protocol
First Claim
1. A method of independently managing membership for a group and mobility for members of that group in a communications system, the method including the steps of:
- setting up, in a registrar, a group name and a membership for that group including a plurality of names, each of said plurality of names indicative of a user within that group; and
establishing, separately from said membership, contact information associated with each of said plurality of names.
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Abstract
A method of independently managing membership for a group and mobility for members of that group in a communications system includes setting up a group name and a membership for that group including a plurality of names, each of the names indicative of a user within that group; and establishing, separately from the membership, contact information associated with each name. With this method, initiating a session with members of a group includes contacting a first registrar with a request for a session, that registrar including the names indicative of the members of the group and a further registrar associated with each of the names; forwarding the request for a session to the further register that includes contact or end point info for the member; and then forwarding the request to the contact associated with the member.
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1. A method of independently managing membership for a group and mobility for members of that group in a communications system, the method including the steps of:
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setting up, in a registrar, a group name and a membership for that group including a plurality of names, each of said plurality of names indicative of a user within that group; and
establishing, separately from said membership, contact information associated with each of said plurality of names. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method of using a call initiation protocol for initiating a session with members of a group, the method including the steps of:
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contacting a first registrar with a request for a session, said first registrar including a plurality of names, each of said names indicative of a member of said group and a second registrar associated with said each of said names;
forwarding said request for a session to said second register associated with said each of said names, said second registrar including a contact for said member, said contact indicative of a location associated with said member; and
forwarding said request for a session to said location associated with said member. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method of using a call initiation protocol to set up a conference call on a conference device, the method including the steps of:
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receiving at a registrar from an originator a request for a call setup among members of a group serviced by said registrar;
forwarding said request to a member registrar for each of said members, said member registrar containing a location for said each of said members and forwarding said request to said each of said members of said group together with a conference address of the conference device for said each of said members, said conference address to be used by said each of said members for the conference call; and
sending a response to said request to said originator, said response including a second conference address of the conference device to be used by said originator for the conference call, whereby all participants in the conference call now use the conference device for the conference call. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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