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

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
obtaining, 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;
determining, at the one or more PTT processing devices, a physical location of one or more PTT user client devices of the IP communication system;
determining an organizational group of a user of each of the one or more PTT user client devices of the IP communication system;
determining a first organizational group based upon the first organizational group being associated with where the telephone call is parked in the IP communication system;
generating, 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;
providing, 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;
obtaining, at the one or more PTT processing devices, an indication that the telephone call has not been answered by a user of a user client device in the first subset of the one or more PTT user client devices;
generating, 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
providing, 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.