Patent ID: 8493967

Claim:
A method of managing group public identities for initiating data transmission links between a network using a SIP protocol and a group public management item of equipment connected to this network, comprising: a step of defining a group public identity representing at least one group of several individual public entities managed by said group public management item of equipment by defining a rule for associating said several individual public entities in a group; a step of registering said group public identity on an identity registration management server, based on a registration request issued from the group public management item of equipment, the registration request comprising a contact address of the group public management item of equipment and the defined rule, the step of registering consisting in storing the defined rule in association with the contact address in the identity registration management server, a step of verifying a request to initiate an incoming call, said request containing a numbering sequence, intended to verify if said numbering sequence corresponds to the registered group public identity by verifying if the numbering sequence complies with the defined rule; and a step of sending said request to the unique contact address of the group public management item of equipment associated with the registered group public identity.