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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2016
Kodiak Networks Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Krishnakant M. Patel, Richardson, TX (US);
Ramu Kandula, Plano, TX (US);
Brahmananda R. Vempati, Dallas, TX (US);
Harisha Mahabaleshwara Negalaguli, Richardson, TX (US);
Pratap Chandana, Plano, TX (US);
Kodiak Networks, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
An embodiment method includes receiving, by a first push-to-talk (PTT) service hosted on a processor, a session initiation request from a PTT client of a user and identifying, by the first PTT service, a user affinity group of the user. The user is assigned to the user affinity group in accordance with a prediction the user will communicate with first users in the user affinity group more frequently than second users in different user affinity groups. The method further includes determining, by the first PTT service, a PTT call server for the user affinity group. The PTT call server serves the user and the first users belonging to the user affinity group.