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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2015
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Howard G. Hammer, Wayne, NJ (US);
Adam J. Simon, Keller, TX (US);
Nishanth Vontela, Irving, TX (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
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.