Patent ID: 7743985

Claim:
A method for receiving up-to-date transportation information at a user entity in an internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: detecting a user entity input; requesting up-to-date transportation information in response to detecting the user entity input; determining a location of the user entity; determining which up-to-date transportation information is desired in response to the location of the user entity, the user entity input and location group information, wherein the location group information is one or more predefined contacts associated with one or more predefined locations of a user entity commute route; requesting access to the desired up-to-date transportation information; obtaining the desired up-to-date transportation information; and providing the desired up-to-date transportation information to the user entity for presentation to the user therefrom, wherein the desired up-to-date transportation information comprises up-to-date video information, and wherein the step of detecting a user entity input comprises the step of receiving a predefined Push to Video (PTV) input from a PTT input button requesting the up-to-date video information, and wherein the step of providing the desired up-to-date transportation information to the user entity comprises the step of transmitting streaming video information to the user entity for presentation of the streaming video information as the up-to-date video information to the user.