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Communique system with hierarchical communique coverage areas in cellular communication networks

  • US 20020037734A1
  • Filed: 01/08/2001
  • Published: 03/28/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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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:

  • 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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