Patent ID: 7774010
Filing Date: 2010-08-10
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: initiating, at an initiating member of a group having a plurality of members, at least one group management function that facilitates restricting membership to the group, wherein the at least one group management function comprises the configuration of a group access list; causing, at least in part, transmission via peer-to-peer wireless telecommunication group management messages associated with the group management function from the initiating member to one or more other members of the group, wherein, the group management messages comprises membership data with the group access list to the one or more other members of the group; facilitating management of group wireless telecommunications among the members of the group based on the group management message; and maintaining a local copy of the group access list of the initiating member by updating a local change to the local copy of the initiating member and transmitting only the updated local change to all other members in the group, and by receiving a change of a local copy of the group access list of one of the other members and synchronizing the received change only to the local copy of the initiating member.