Communique system for virtual private narrowcasts in cellular communication networks
First Claim
1. A communiqué
- system for providing communiqué
virtual private network communication services to subscribers, equipped with wireless subscriber devices, via a cellular communication network that includes a plurality of cell sites, each of which provides a plurality of wireless communication channels in a cell that covers a predetermined volume of space around a cell site transmitting antenna, comprising;
means, responsive to a narrowcast host initiating a virtual private network narrowcast, for selecting at least one of said plurality of cell sites to provide a virtual private network narrowcast communiqué
communication service;
means for interconnecting said narrowcast host and a plurality of wireless subscriber devices participating in said virtual private network narrowcast via said selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites; and
means for routing information, constituting said virtual private network narrowcast communiqué
communication service, among said narrowcast host and a plurality of wireless subscriber devices participating in said virtual private network narrowcast via selected ones of said plurality of wireless communication channels in said selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites.
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Abstract
The communiqué system for private virtual narrowcasts operates with existing cellular communication networks to provide private virtual narrowcast communication services, that are initiated by a narrowcast host, to subscribers. The Communiqué can be unidirectional (broadcast) or bi-directional (interactive) in nature and the extent of the Communiqué is narrowcast, where cells and/or cell sectors are grouped to cover a predetermined geographic area or demographic population or subscriber interest group to transmit information to a private group of subscribers who populate the target audience for the narrowcast transmissions. The grouping of cells to form the communiqué coverage area for the narrowcast transmissions need not be contiguous and can comprise dynamic combinations of contiguous and non-contiguous cells as well as combinations of in-building wireless coverage areas, standard terrestrial cells, non-terrestrial cells, orchestrated in a hierarchical manner. The private virtual narrowcasts use the code, frequency and time domains to enable multiple users to share the same wireless resource in a manner that, from the users perspective, has dedicated spectrum or channel capacity to their particular application. The applications can include asymmetric bi-directional communications where private virtual narrowcasts stimulate the generation of point-to-point responses from subscriber terminal devices.
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1. A communiqué
- system for providing communiqué
virtual private network communication services to subscribers, equipped with wireless subscriber devices, via a cellular communication network that includes a plurality of cell sites, each of which provides a plurality of wireless communication channels in a cell that covers a predetermined volume of space around a cell site transmitting antenna, comprising;
means, responsive to a narrowcast host initiating a virtual private network narrowcast, for selecting at least one of said plurality of cell sites to provide a virtual private network narrowcast communiqué
communication service;
means for interconnecting said narrowcast host and a plurality of wireless subscriber devices participating in said virtual private network narrowcast via said selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites; and
means for routing information, constituting said virtual private network narrowcast communiqué
communication service, among said narrowcast host and a plurality of wireless subscriber devices participating in said virtual private network narrowcast via selected ones of said plurality of wireless communication channels in said selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method of operating a communiqué
- system for providing communiqué
virtual private network communication services to subscribers, equipped with wireless subscriber devices, via a cellular communication network that includes a plurality of cell sites, each of which provides a plurality of wireless communication channels in a cell that covers a predetermined volume of space around a cell site transmitting antenna, comprising the steps of;
selecting, in response to a narrowcast host initiating a virtual private network narrowcast, at least one of said plurality of cell sites to provide a virtual private network narrowcast communiqué
communication service;
interconnecting said narrowcast host and a plurality of wireless subscriber devices participating in said virtual private network narrowcast via said selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites; and
routing information, constituting said virtual private network narrowcast communiqué
communication service, among said narrowcast host and a plurality of wireless subscriber devices participating in said virtual private network narrowcast via selected ones of said plurality of wireless communication channels in said selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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