Patent ID: 11882164
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. One or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums encoded with instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, are configured to:
obtain, at one or more Push-To-Talk (PTT) processing devices of an Internet Protocol (IP) communication system, an indication that a telephone call is parked in the IP communication system;
determine, at the one or more PTT processing devices, a physical location of one or more PTT user client devices of the IP communication system;
determine an organizational group of a user of each of the one or more PTT user client devices of the IP communication system;
determine a first organizational group based upon the first organizational group being associated with where the telephone call is parked in the IP communication system;
generate, at the one or more PTT processing devices, a first PTT channel based upon the physical location of the one or more PTT user client devices, wherein the first PTT channel includes a first subset of the one or more PTT user client devices that belong to the first organizational group;
provide, from the one or more PTT processing devices to the first PTT channel, a first PTT audio notification that the telephone call is parked in the IP communication system; obtain, at the one or more PTT processing devices, an indication that the telephone call has not been answered by a user of a PTT client device in the first subset of the one or more PTT user client devices;
generate, at the one or more PTT processing devices, a second PTT channel based upon the physical location of the one or more PTT user client devices, wherein the second PTT channel includes a second subset of the one or more PTT user client devices that is different from the first subset of the one or more PTT user client devices; and
provide, from the one or more PTT processing devices to the second PTT channel, a second PTT audio notification that the telephone call is parked in the IP communication system.