Patent ID: 7881220

Claim:
A method of controlling talk burst timer operations in a terminal that communicates with a network, the method performed by the terminal and comprising: sending at least one talk burst request to the network; receiving at least one time value for at least one talk burst control timer from the network after the terminal sends the talk burst request and when the at least one time value requires updating by the network; updating a management object of a device management client in the terminal with the at least one time value; and updating the at least one talk burst control timer with the at least one time value, wherein the receiving step comprises receiving a session initiation protocol (SIP) message, sent from the network to the terminal, the SIP message containing the at least one time value that is used to update at least one talk burst request timer of the terminal, whereby the SIP message is a response message responding to a SIP invite message sent from the terminal to the network during a process of establishing a session between the network and the terminal; or wherein the receiving step comprises receiving a real-time transport control protocol (RTCP) message, sent from the network to the terminal after a session is established therebetween, the RTCP message containing the at least one time value that is used to update at least one talk burst request timer of the terminal, whereby the RTCP message is a talk burst control protocol (TBCP) message.