Patent ID: 7526306

Claim:
A method for participating in a call on a wireless communications device, the method comprising the steps of: adding contact information to a single contacts database, the contact information comprising a plurality of contact names, and at least one of a PTT contact number and a standard phone number associated with each contact name of the plurality of contact names; displaying a selection screen comprising one of a standard phone number contacts list screen and a PTT contacts list screen, the standard phone number contacts list screen for displaying a plurality of standard phone number contact names associated with a standard phone number, the PTT contacts list screen for displaying the each contact name having the PTT contact number; initiating a PTT call to a plurality of selected PTT contacts to be called by selecting the plurality of selected PTT contacts through the PTT contacts list screen; displaying an in-call screen when the initiated PTT call is connected to the plurality of selected PTT contacts to be called, the in-call screen providing a group soft key option; accepting a selection of the group soft key option; displaying a contacts management screen in response to the selection of the group soft key option; and updating the single contacts database through the contacts management screen while continuing to participate in the connected PTT call.