US 9,756,485 B2 · Methods and systems for walkie-talkie communications

Abstract

Walkie-talkies are a common means of coordinating activities at events but must be handed out, transferred as shifts and personnel in roles change, and collected. Further, walkie-talkies have a set range and the bigger the range the more expensive the walkie-talkie. Accordingly, it would be beneficial to provide individuals, enterprises, organizers, etc. with the ability to establish communications to individuals or group of individuals rapidly, with low complexity and management overhead, exploiting walkie-talkie style communications upon mobile devices connected to wireless networks over varying geographical areas without requiring distribution of walkie-talkies etc. as the mobile device is the user's own smartphone or cellphone. Further, it would be beneficial for such communications to be managed through a software application such that the user's virtual walkie-talkie automatically assigns channels etc. based upon the user's role, the event, their location etc.

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Dependent claims

A method of managing communications mobile communications comprising:

receiving content within an event application in execution upon an electronic device associated with a user and connected to a network from another electronic device also connected to the network executing the event application and associated with another user;
associating the received content with a communication based upon a filter defined by a policy chain established within the event application in dependence upon a role associated with the user within an event;
and
presenting the information upon the electronic device;
wherein
the another user is also associated with the event and a second role within the event;
and
the user and the another user have no association other than that they are both members of a group of users associated with the event whose contact data is stored within a database accessible by a user notification server connected to the network through which the communication from the another user to the user is routed.

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Computer readable instructions for execution by a microprocessor stored in a non-volatile, non-transitory memory, the instructions when executed relating to a process comprising:

receiving content within an event application in execution upon an electronic device associated with a user and connected to a network from another electronic device also connected to the network executing the event application and associated with another user;
associating the received content with a communication based upon a filter defined by a policy chain established within the event application in dependence upon a role associated with the user within an event;
and
presenting the information upon the electronic device;
wherein
the another user is also associated with the event and a second role within the event;
and
the user and the another user have no association other than that they are both members of a group of users associated with the event whose contact data is stored within a database accessible by a user notification server connected to the network through which the communication from the another user to the user is routed.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Methods and systems for walkie-talkie communications

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Methods and systems for walkie-talkie communications

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Abstract

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