DYNAMIC GROUP COMMUNICATION PARTICIPANT PREEMPTION RANKING

摘要

Methods and servers enable the management of a group communication session among participants. A server may determine a preemption rank for preempting a floor from a floor-holding participant based on a pre-established relational modifier or an administrative relational modifier. The pre-established relational modifier may be based on whether an individual participant has a pre-established relationship to the floor-holding participant. The administrative relational modifier may be based on an assigned relationship between the individual participant and another participant. The server may process a floor request received from a requesting participant that is not the floor-holding participant. In addition, the server may determine whether to grant the floor request based on the preemption rank of the floor-holding participant and the requesting participant. Further, the server may initiate a request response transmission in response to determining to grant the floor request.