Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Cellco Partnership

Howard G Hammer

Mauricio Pati Caldeira De Andrada

Muhammad Salman Nomani

Shweta Sinha

John Antypas, Iii

Adam J Simon

Nishanth Vontela

A device provides a user interface that includes a list of push-to-talk contacts, and receives, via the user interface, a gesture indicating a request to establish a push-to-talk call with a particular contact in the list of push-to-talk contacts. The device initiates the push-to-talk call with another device associated with the particular contact, and the push-to-talk call is initiated with the other device based on the gesture and directly from within the user interface. The device provides for display a visual indicator associated with the push-to-talk call.

Push-to-talk service features

A device determines whether a PTT application is authenticated to access a first API and a second API, and prevents the PTT application from accessing the first and second APIs when the PTT application is not authenticated. The device permits the PTT application to access the first and second APIs when the PTT application is authenticated, and modifies, via the first API, a timer that dictates when the device checks for traffic received from a network. The device establishes, via the second API, a data connection with the network, and determines, based on the data connection, a QoS framework for the network. The device utilizes the PTT application and the timer to establish a PTT session with another device via the network, and prioritizes, based on the QoS framework, PTT traffic provided in the PTT session with the other device.

Managing hidden security features in user equipment

A device establishes a quality of service (QoS) framework with a network connected to the device. The device includes a push-to-talk (PTT) application, and the QoS framework assigns priorities to different types of traffic associated with the device. The device utilizes the PTT application to establish a PTT session with another device via the network, and prioritizes, based on the QoS framework, PTT traffic, provided in the PTT session, over best effort traffic during the PTT session with the other device.

Prioritized push-to-talk session using quality of service (QoS) over an internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS)

A device may receive a command from a source device, may receive information that identifies a destination device associated with the command, may receive information that identifies a user associated with the source device, and may determine a network condition of a network associated with the destination device. The device may determine that the user is associated with an available token, where the available token is associated with the user, the command, and the network condition. The device may transmit, to the destination device and based on determining that the user is associated with the available token, the command.

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