Communique system with active feedback for cellular communication networks
First Claim
1. A communique system for providing communique communication services to subscribers, each of whom are equipped with a wireless subscriber device, 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 for storing subscriber information for each of a plurality of subscribers;
means for identifying subscribers, whose wireless subscriber device is active in a cell of said cellular communication network, for at least one of said cells;
means for automatically generating data that identifies a plurality of subscribers, who comprise at least one community of subscribers, as a function of said stored subscriber information for said identified subscribers;
means for selecting at least one of said plurality of cells to provide a communique communication service to subscribers who are members of said at least one community of subscribers; and
means for routing information constituting said communique communication service from a selected program source to cell sites associated with said selected at least one of said plurality of cells for transmission via a one of said plurality of wireless communication channels to wireless subscriber devices of ones of said identified subscribers who are present in said selected at least one of said plurality of cells.
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Abstract
The communique system for cellular communication networks operates with existing cellular communication networks to provide communique communication services to subscribers. The communique can be unidirectional (broadcast) or bidirectional (interactive) in nature and the extent of the communique can be network-wide broadcast or narrowcast, where one or more cells and/or cell sectors are grouped to cover a predetermined geographic area or demographic population or subscriber interest group to transmit information to subscribers who populate the target audience for the narrowcast transmissions. The communique system uses active feedback to dynamically adjust the communiqué coverage area, using one or more parameters including but not limited to: the number of subscribers in the communiqué coverage area and components thereof, the demographics of the subscribers, the flow of subscribers into & out of existing communiqué coverage area, the usage of communiqué services: free vs subscription vs toll, and the like. The content of these transmissions can be multi-media in nature and comprising a combination of various forms of media: audio, video, graphics, text, data and the like. The subscriber terminal devices used to communicate with the communique system for cellular communication networks are typically full function communication devices that include: WAP enabled cellular telephones, personal digital assistants, Palm Pilots, personal computers, and the like or special communique only communication devices that are specific to communique reception; or MP3 audio players (essentially a radio receiver or communique radio); or an MPEG4 video receiver (communique TV); or other such specialized communication device. The subscriber terminal devices can either be mobile wireless communication devices in the traditional mobile subscriber paradigm, or the fixed wireless communication devices in the more recent wireless product offerings. Furthermore, these communique communication services can be free services, subscription based services, or toll based services, while the data propagation can be based on push, pull and combinations of push/pull information distribution modes.
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43 Claims
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1. A communique system for providing communique communication services to subscribers, each of whom are equipped with a wireless subscriber device, 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:
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means for storing subscriber information for each of a plurality of subscribers;
means for identifying subscribers, whose wireless subscriber device is active in a cell of said cellular communication network, for at least one of said cells;
means for automatically generating data that identifies a plurality of subscribers, who comprise at least one community of subscribers, as a function of said stored subscriber information for said identified subscribers;
means for selecting at least one of said plurality of cells to provide a communique communication service to subscribers who are members of said at least one community of subscribers; and
means for routing information constituting said communique communication service from a selected program source to cell sites associated with said selected at least one of said plurality of cells for transmission via a one of said plurality of wireless communication channels to wireless subscriber devices of ones of said identified subscribers who are present in said selected at least one of said plurality of cells. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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17. A method of operating a communique system for providing communique communication services to subscribers, each of whom are equipped with a wireless subscriber device, 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:
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storing subscriber information for each of a plurality of subscribers;
identifying subscribers, whose wireless subscriber device is active in a cell of said cellular communication network, for at least one of said cells;
automatically generating data that identifies a plurality of subscribers, who comprise at least one community of subscribers, as a function of said stored subscriber information for said identified subscribers;
selecting at least one of said plurality of cells to provide a communique communication service to subscribers who are members of said at least one community of subscribers; and
routing information constituting said communique communication service from a selected program source to cell sites associated with said selected at least one of said plurality of cells for transmission via a one of said plurality of wireless communication channels to wireless subscriber devices of ones of said identified subscribers who are present in said selected at least one of said plurality of cells.
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33. A communique system for providing communique communication services to subscribers, who are 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:
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communique location register means for storing data comprising at least one of;
a subscriber'"'"'s authorization, a subscriber'"'"'s service plan, and a subscriber profile for each of a plurality of subscribers;
subscriber population identification means for identifying subscribers, whose wireless subscriber device is active in a cell site of said cellular communication network, for at least one of said cell sites;
community manager means for automatically generating data that identifies a plurality of subscribers, who comprise at least one community of subscribers, as a function of said stored subscriber profiles for said identified subscribers;
temporal spatial communique manager means for selecting at least one of said plurality of cell sites to provide a communique communication service to subscribers who are members of said at least one community of subscribers; and
program manager means for routing information constituting said communique communication service from at least one selected program source to said selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites for transmission via a one of said plurality of wireless communication channels to a plurality of wireless subscriber devices served by said selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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