Systems and methods for providing push-to-talk session participants control of a push-to-talk session

A system for providing push-to-talk (PTT) session participants control of a PTT session including half-duplex protocol, the system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the system to:
• receive, from at least one computing device of a respective at least one PTT session participant of a plurality of PTT session participants of the PTT session including the half-duplex protocol, a control request to provide a PTT session participant associated with the control request control of the PTT session by designating the PTT session participant associated with the control request as a transmitter of communications of the PTT session able to transmit the communications to all other PTT session participants, and designating remaining PTT session participants as receivers of the communications unable to transmit any communications to any PTT session participants;
• generate a control queue to queue PTT session participants requesting control of the PTT session;
• add at least one PTT session participant to the control queue based on when an associated control request is received,
• wherein a PTT session participant associated with a first received control request is positioned first in the control queue and a PTT session participant associated with a last received control request is positioned last in the control queue;
• and
• provide control of the PTT session to the PTT session participant positioned first in the control queue including:
• designating the PTT session participant positioned first in the control queue as the transmitter of the communications, and
• removing the PTT session participant positioned first in the control queue from the control queue,
• wherein a PTT session participant located next in the control queue after the PTT session participant positioned first in the control queue becomes the PTT session participant positioned first in the control queue.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a machine to at least:

• receive, from at least one computing device of a respective at least one PTT session participant of a plurality of PTT session participants of a PIT session including half-duplex protocol, a control request to provide a PTT session participant associated with the control request control of the PTT session by designating the PTT session participant associated with the control request as a transmitter of communications of the PTT session able to transmit the communications to all other PTT session participants, and designating remaining PTT session participants as receivers of the communications unable to transmit any communications to any PTT session participants;
• generate a control queue to queue PTT session participants requesting control of the PTT session;
• add at least one PTT session participant to the control queue based on when an associated control request is received, wherein a PTT session participant associated with a first received control request is positioned first in the control queue and a PTT session participant associated with a last received control request is positioned last in the control queue;
• and provide control of the PTT session to the PTT session participant positioned first in the control queue including:
• designating the PTT session participant positioned first in the control queue as the transmitter of the communications, and removing the PTT session participant positioned first in the control queue from the control queue, wherein a PTT session participant positioned next in the control queue after the PTT session participant positioned first in the control queue becomes the PTT session participant positioned first in the control queue.