Communication method and communication equipment in the PoC service

• US 7,797,011 B2
• Filed: 10/31/2005
• Issued: 09/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Techno Licensing LLC (IP Edge LLC)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Saito, Junya
• Primary Examiner(s): Gesesse, Tilahun
• Application Number:
  US11/718,472
• Publication Number:
  US 20090028076A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,779 Days
• Field of Search: 455/517, 455/518, 455/519, 455/416, 455/521
• US Class Current: 455/519
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4061 Push-to services, e.g. push-to-talk or push-to-video
• 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

The present invention aims at permitting users of the equipments to exchange mutually their own wills easily in a PoC service not to take a floor. In a PoC service that attains a half duplex talk session using a packet communication between the plurality of equipments via a PoC server, a PoC server 20 for controlling a communication relay among a plurality of equipments includes a managing unit 20a for managing the user equipments connected to the PoC server 20, an acquiring unit 20b for acquiring a key operation of each equipment as operation information, and a transmitting unit 20c for transmitting the acquired operation information to the equipments that the managing unit 20a manages.

Claims

1. A communication method of controlling a communication relay between a plurality of equipments in a PoC service which attains a half duplex talk session using a packet communication between the plurality of equipments, wherein each equipment comprises a talking key and at least one operation information transmitting key, the method comprising:

managing the equipments connected to the server, wherein one of the plurality of equipments has taken “

the floor”

in the half duplex talk session;

acquiring, as operation information, a key operation of the operation information transmitting key of at least one of the plurality of equipments that has not taken “

the floor”

in the half duplex talk session while said one of the plurality of equipments has “

the floor”

in the half duplex talk session;

transmitting the acquired operation information to the equipments which are managed by a managing unit; and

displaying the operation information on a screen of said one of the plurality of equipments that has “

the floor” and

/or on a screen of at least another one of the plurality of equipments that has not taken “

the floor”

.

2. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein transferred information corresponding to the acquired operation information is transmitted to the equipments in the transmitting process, while referring to a storing unit which stores key operations and the transferred information which are correlated to each other.

3. A communication equipment for conducting a half duplex talk session using a packet communication with other equipments via a server into which the communication method according to claim 1 is loaded, comprising:

a transmitting unit that transmits key operations of said communication equipment to the server as operation information; and

a receiving unit that receives the operation information transmitted from the server, the operation information indicating the key operation of respective equipments.

4. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein the acquired operation information is transmitted to all of the equipments which are managed by the managing unit.

5. The communication method according to claim 4, wherein the transmitted operation information is displayed on each screen of said all of the equipments to share the operation information among said all of the equipments.

6. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein when one operation information transmitting key is pressed, the operation information indicating that the pressed key is pressed is transmitted, and when the pressed key is released from pressing, the operation information indicating that the pressed key is released is transmitted.