Patent ID: 7587215

Claim:
A method of operating a cellular telephone, the cellular telephone being operated by a first user and including a display, and being selectively operable in a mode in which a group call is supported among more than two parties according to a push-to-talk-over-cellular (PoC) procedure, the cellular telephone including a designation of a group of cellular telephone users other than the first user, the method comprising: entering into a group call session in accordance with said PoC procedure, the designated group being selected for the group call session; and displaying on the display information that indicates how many members of the designated group are in an active status relative to the group call session; wherein the displaying includes displaying a first numeral that indicates how many members of the designated group are in an active status relative to the group call session, followed in space on the display by a symbol, followed in space on the display by a second numeral that indicates how many members are included in the designated group.