Motorola Corporation

Motorola, Inc., a Corporation of the State of Delaware

Tracy L Wolf

Peter M Drozt

Paul M Erickson

Steven E Vanswol

William A Felderman

John C Stanaway

Steven E Van Swol

A wireless communication system that includes an MS that is a member of multiple talkgroups provides for a prioritization of the multiple talkgroups. A database included in the system maintains an MS identifier associated with the MS and maintains multiple talkgroup identifiers in association with the MS identifier, wherein each talkgroup identifier of the multiple talkgroup identifiers corresponds to a talkgroup of the multiple talkgroups. The database further maintains a prioritization associated with at least one talkgroup of the multiple talkgroups. In one embodiment of the invention, the MS may dynamically prioritize the multiple talkgroups to which it belongs. In another embodiment of the present invention, the prioritization may be statically maintained. In still another embodiment of the invention, the system utilizes the maintained prioritizations to determine whether to interrupt the MS when the MS is involved in a multi-party communication session.

Method and apparatus for providing prioritized multi-party communication sessions in a wireless communication system

To address the need to provide interurban dispatch services, embodiments supporting an interurban dispatch group call service are disclosed. Call control in the controlling network equipment (e.g., ) manages the dispatch service in both the local urban area ( ) and the remote urban areas ( ). Call flow embodiments that enable this management of group call service across urban area boundaries are described in detail.

Method and apparatus for interurban dispatch group calling

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Tracy L Wolf