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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2012
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Mark A. Lindner, Verona, CA (US);
Kameron N. Kerger, San Diego, CA (US);
Gabriel Moura da Silva, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure is directed to requesting and providing acknowledgements to a talk spurt in a group communication. An embodiment transmits the talk spurt to one or more recipients participating in the group communication, receives a selection of one or more target recipients among the one or more participating recipients, and transmits a request to each of the one or more target recipients to acknowledge the talk spurt. An embodiment receives, at a mobile device, a talk spurt during the group communication, receives, at the mobile device, a request to acknowledge the talk spurt, and transmits, by the mobile device, an acknowledgement (ACK) or a negative acknowledgement (NACK) in response to the request without obtaining the floor of the group communication.