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ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATION PATHWAYS BETWEEN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVICES IN A GROUP COMMUNICATION SYSTEM IMPLEMENTED OVER A WIDE AREA NETWORK

  • US 20100027443A1
  • Filed: 07/31/2008
  • Published: 02/04/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for establishing communication pathways between infrastructure devices in a wide area communication network, the infrastructure devices comprising a home infrastructure device of a source wireless communication device (WCD), a first infrastructure device and a second infrastructure device, the method comprising:

  • generating, at a home steward module of the source WCD, a destination WCD distribution list for communications from the source WCD to a first communication group comprising the source WCD and a first destination WCD, and communicating the destination WCD distribution list to an envoy packet duplicator module located at the first infrastructure device;

    communicating, from the home steward module, a first network socket of the envoy packet duplicator module to a second envoy module for the first destination WCD that is located at the second infrastructure device;

    generating, at the home steward module, a first mapping comprising a second network socket for the second envoy module mapped to a first destination wireless communication device identifier of the first destination WCD, and communicating the first mapping to the envoy packet duplicator module; and

    establishing, prior to transmission of a group message packet to the first communication group by the source WCD, a first communication connection between the first network socket and the second network socket.

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