Communique system for multicasting in cellular communication networks
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1. A method of providing communiqué
- communication services to subscribers, each of whom is 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;
identifying subscribers, whose wireless subscriber devices are active in a cell of said cellular communication network; and
routing data, constituting said communique, from a selected program source to said cell for concurrent transmission to wireless subscriber devices of subscribers who are authorized to receive said communiqué and
who are served by said cell, said transmission to said plurality of wireless subscriber devices being effected concurrently to more than one of said plurality of wireless subscriber devices via a one of said plurality of wireless communication channels.
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The communiqué system for cellular communication networks operates with existing cellular communication networks to provide communique communication services to subscribers. The communiqué can be unidirectional (broadcast) or bidirectional (interactive) in nature and the extent of the communiqué 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.
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1. A method of providing communiqué
- communication services to subscribers, each of whom is 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;
identifying subscribers, whose wireless subscriber devices are active in a cell of said cellular communication network; and
routing data, constituting said communique, from a selected program source to said cell for concurrent transmission to wireless subscriber devices of subscribers who are authorized to receive said communiqué and
who are served by said cell, said transmission to said plurality of wireless subscriber devices being effected concurrently to more than one of said plurality of wireless subscriber devices via a one of said plurality of wireless communication channels. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
- communication services to subscribers, each of whom is 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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19. A communiqué
- system for providing a communique, constituting program content concurrently delivered to a plurality of 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;
processor means for identifying subscribers, whose wireless subscriber devices are active in a cell of said cellular communication network; and
router means for routing data, constituting said communique, from a selected program source to said cell for concurrent transmission to wireless subscriber devices of subscribers who are authorized to receive said communiqué and
who are served by said cell, said transmission to said plurality of wireless subscriber devices being effected concurrently to more than one of said plurality of wireless subscriber devices via a one of said plurality of wireless communication channels. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
- system for providing a communique, constituting program content concurrently delivered to a plurality of 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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