Communique system with hierarchical communique coverage areas in cellular communication networks
First Claim
1. 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:
- means for selecting a plurality of cells to provide a communique communication service;
means for organizing said plurality of cells into at least two groups, each of said groups being assigned to a level in a hierarchical communique coverage area containing at least two levels; and
means for routing information, constituting said communique communication service, from a selected program source to cell sites associated with cells in a selected one of said at least two groups for transmission via selected ones of said plurality of wireless communication channels to a plurality of wireless subscriber devices served by cells in said selected one of said at least two groups.
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Abstract
The communique system for cellular communication networks that 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 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 grouping of cells to form the communique coverage area for the narrowcast transmissions can be hierarchical, using combinations of in-building wireless coverage areas, standard terrestrial cells, non-terrestrial cells, orchestrated in a hierarchical manner. 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.
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28 Claims
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1. 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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means for selecting a plurality of cells to provide a communique communication service;
means for organizing said plurality of cells into at least two groups, each of said groups being assigned to a level in a hierarchical communique coverage area containing at least two levels; and
means for routing information, constituting said communique communication service, from a selected program source to cell sites associated with cells in a selected one of said at least two groups for transmission via selected ones of said plurality of wireless communication channels to a plurality of wireless subscriber devices served by cells in said selected one of said at least two groups. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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15. A method 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 the steps of:
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selecting a plurality of cells to provide a communique communication service;
organizing said plurality of cells into at least two groups, each of said groups being assigned to a level in a hierarchical communique coverage area containing at least two levels; and
routing information, constituting said communique communication service, from a selected program source to cell sites associated with cells in a selected one of said at least two groups for transmission via selected ones of said plurality of wireless communication channels to a plurality of wireless subscriber devices served by cells in said selected one of said at least two groups.
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