Patent ID: 7561528

Claim:
A method of controlling a talk burst for at least one PT (push-to) client each having at least one talk burst control timer, the method comprising: providing, by a device management server or a PT server, at least one time value for the at least one talk burst control timer, to the at least one PT client; and updating the at least one talk burst control timer in the at least one PT client with the at least one time value, wherein the providing step includes, including the at least one time value in a real-time transport control protocol (RTCP) message, which is to be sent from the PT server to a certain PT client after a session is established between the PT server and the certain PT client, and transmitting the RTCP message including the at least one time value from the PT server to the certain PT client, so that at least one talk burst request timer of the certain PT client can be updated with the at least one time value in the updating step, and wherein the RTCP message is a talk burst control protocol (TBCP) message.