Patent ID: 8478851
Filing Date: 2013-07-02
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. Apparatus implemented on a suitably programmed processor for use with a server associated with a group communication network, in which the server is communicatively coupled to an addressing database, and in which the apparatus is addressable by a user terminal connected to the network, the apparatus comprising: a receiver module that receives an invitation from the user terminal connected to the network and accepts the invitation to cause the user terminal and the apparatus to establish a communication; a data retrieval module that obtains details of one or more users of a number of other user terminals to be added to the communication, in which the details are obtained from a database of the one or more users other than the addressing database; and a communication module that adds at least one of the other user terminals to the communication using the obtained details; in which the apparatus appears to the group communication network as a user terminal, the apparatus having an address in a format suitable for the group communication network.