PoC communication server apparatus, terminal apparatus and PoC communication method

• US 20060234692A1
• Filed: 03/10/2006
• Published: 10/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Shimokawa, Atsushi, Sato, Atsushi, Yoshida, Naomasa, Hayashi, Yosuke
• Granted Patent: US 7,711,380 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/10 Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-On-Call services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/45 for Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-to-Talk over cellular [PoC] services

Abstract

Subject to user'"'"'s setting in PoC group communication, the user address of that user is set to non notification against other users. In case of starting PoC group communication, a PoC subscriber selects non notification subjects and transmits a PoC session commencement request. At that time, the caller sets his own address and/or address/addresses of all or a part of users to non notification. On a user designated as a non notification subject due to the caller'"'"'s setting, PoC terminal apparatuses in receipt of a PoC session commencement request or PoC communication service controlling apparatuses undergo non notification setting processing. On a called party not selected as non notification subject users, if he/she sets his/her own user address to non notification in advance, likewise non notification processing is implemented. Even after a PoC session is established, each user can set his/her own user address to non notification and non notification service complying with user'"'"'s intention is providable.

Claims

1. A PoC communication server apparatus for carrying out a PoC group session of realizing group talk with a terminal apparatus, comprising non notification command obtaining means for obtaining non notification command for employing non notification on a user address corresponding with a terminal apparatus included in said PoC group and non notification setting means for transmitting to another terminal apparatus a non notification setting command for setting non notification onto a user address related to said non notification command obtained by said non notification command obtaining means against the another terminal apparatus included in said PoC group.

2. The PoC communication server apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said non notification command obtaining means obtain said non notification command inclusive of said non notification setting information from another apparatus in the case where non notification setting information indicating whether or not respective user addresses of terminal apparatuses included in said PoC group are set to non notification is managed over a plurality of apparatuses.

3. The PoC communication server apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said non notification setting command includes a user address and an identifier of indicating whether or not said user address is set to non notification.

4. The PoC communication server apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said non notification setting command includes a user address and DISPLAYNAME information indicating contents to be displayed, instead of said user address, in a display window of respective terminal apparatuses.

5. The PoC communication server apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said non notification setting command does not include a user address corresponding with a terminal apparatus included in said PoC group but includes information indicative of a number of terminal set to non notification setting.

6. A terminal apparatus of carrying out a PoC group session of realizing group talk with another terminal apparatus, comprising non notification command transmitting means for transmitting a non notification command for employing non notification on a terminal'"'"'s own user address against the another terminal apparatus included in said PoC group.

7. A terminal apparatus for carrying out a PoC group session of realizing group talk with another terminal apparatus, comprising display controlling means for displaying, in his/her own terminal, contents indicative of non notification on a user address in reception of non notification setting command for employing non notification on the user address corresponding with a terminal apparatus included in said PoC group.

8. The terminal apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said non notification setting command includes a user address and an identifier of indicating whether or not said user address is set to non notification and said display controlling means display “

non notification”

corresponding with contents of said identifier.

9. The terminal apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said non notification setting command includes a user address and DISPLAYNAME information indicating contents to be displayed, instead of said user address, in a display window of respective terminal apparatuses and said display controlling means display the contents of said DISPLAYNAME information.

10. The terminal apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said non notification setting command does not include a user address corresponding with a terminal apparatus included in said PoC group but includes information indicative of a number of terminal apparatus set to non notification setting and said display controlling means display “

non notification”

corresponding with a number of said terminal.

11. A PoC communication method of carrying out a PoC group session of realizing group talk with a terminal apparatus, comprising a non notification command obtaining step of obtaining non notification command for employing non notification on a user address corresponding with a terminal apparatus included in said PoC group and a non notification setting step of transmitting to another terminal apparatus a non notification setting command for setting non notification onto a user address related to said non notification command obtained by said non notification command obtaining step against the another terminal apparatus included in said PoC group.

12. The PoC communication method according to claim 11, wherein in said non notification command obtaining step, any one of apparatuses among a plurality of apparatuses obtains said non notification command inclusive of said non notification setting information from another apparatus in the case where non notification setting information indicating whether or not respective user addresses of terminal apparatuses included in said PoC group are set to non notification is managed over a plurality of apparatuses thereof.

13. The PoC communication method according to claim 11, wherein said non notification setting command is transmitted, prior to commencement of said PoC group session, from a terminal apparatus desired to be set to non notification.

14. The PoC communication method according to claim 11, wherein said non notification setting command is transmitted from a terminal apparatus at a caller side at the time of commencement of said PoC group session.

15. The PoC communication method according to claim 11, wherein said non notification setting command is transmitted from a terminal apparatus during transmission by means of said PoC group session.

16. The PoC communication method according to claim 11, wherein said non notification setting command includes a user address and an identifier of indicating whether or not said user address is set to non notification.

17. The PoC communication method according to claim 11, wherein said non notification setting command includes a user address and DISPLAYNAME information indicating contents to be displayed, instead of said user address, in a display window of respective terminal apparatuses.

18. The PoC communication method according to claim 11, wherein said non notification setting command does not include a user address corresponding with a terminal apparatus included in said PoC group but includes information indicative of a number of terminal set to non notification setting.