Patent ID: 8819204
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a group service or a plurality of group services in a communication network, comprising: capturing group-service-specific and/or group-specific event data in an event detection unit; transmitting at least one subset of the group-service-specific and/or group-specific event data from the event detection unit to a group list generation unit that is applicable to a plurality of types of communication group services; and evaluating the group-service-specific and/or group-specific event data and generating group-specific lists by the group list generation unit, the group-specific lists indicating a current participation state of members of the group in the group service or each of the communication group services, wherein current participation state data is obtained, for the plurality of types of communication group services at a centralized location, after a change in a participation state occurs from a type of communication group service to a different type of communication group service, and information regarding which members are currently involved in which of the types of communication group services is made available to different applications and users in a standard manner.