Bruce R Riley

US Patent:

7266382, Sep 4, 2007

Filed:

Aug 6, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/635300

Inventors:

Paul A. Noel - Naperville IL, US
Bruce M. Riley - Naperville IL, US
Laurel Salvador - Wheaton IL, US
Donna Michaels Sand - Redmond WA, US
David Walter Vollman - Naperville IL, US
Joe Ping Zhou - Naperville IL, US

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04B 7/00

US Classification:

455518, 4555521

Abstract:

In a telecommunications system (), a method and apparatus for buffering the initial speech of an initial speaker in a push-to-talk call is disclosed. The method includes the steps of determining at least one participant or group to call (), sending a call request to the at least one participant or group (), determining if the at least one participant or group is registered with the telecommunications system, notifying the initial speaker to begin speaking after determining at least one participant is registered with the telecommunications system but prior to connecting all called parties, receiving and digitizing voice packets from the initial speaker, storing the digitized data packets in a storage medium and transmitting the digitized voice packets when a predetermined packet transmission triggering event occurs. The apparatus for buffering the initial speech burst of an initial speaker in a call includes a first server () and a second server () communicatively connected to the first server. The second server is programmed to execute the steps of the method described above.

US Patent:

20050032539, Feb 10, 2005

Filed:

Aug 6, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/635384

Inventors:

Paul Noel - Naperville IL, US
Bruce Riley - Naperville IL, US
Laurel Salvador - Wheaton IL, US
Donna Sand - Redmond WA, US
David Vollman - Naperville IL, US
Joe Zhou - Naperville IL, US

International Classification:

H04B007/00

US Classification:

455518000, 455426100

Abstract:

In a telecommunications system (), a method and apparatus for priority queuing of callers requesting an opportunity to speak during a push-to-talk call is disclosed. The method includes defining a group for a call in response to a user input (), assigning a priority level designation to the at least one participant (), and granting access to transmit speech in a push-to-talk call based on the priority level (). The apparatus includes a first server () and a second server () communicatively coupled to the first server. The second server is programmed to implement the steps given above.