Patent ID: 7200396

Claim:
A method for managing group voice communication in a telecommunications system comprising: a telecommunications network; a user terminal connected to the telecommunications network; and a communication server capable of providing the user terminal with access to group voice communication via the telecommunications network; the method comprising maintaining information of at least two communication groups available to the user terminal; receiving, in the communication server, a request message indicating a request from the user terminal to speak to a first communication group; transmitting, from the communication server to the user terminal, a grant message indicating an acceptance of said request; as a response to said transmitting, setting the first communication group as a priority communication group of a highest priority for said user terminal, wherein said setting of the priority communication group is temporary; maintaining information of a default priority communication group for the user terminal; and setting, as a response to an expiry of a temporary priority group, the default priority communication group as the priority communication group of the highest priority for the user terminal.