Communique system with dynamic bandwidth allocation in cellular communication networks

• US 7,693,162 B2
• Filed: 05/02/2005
• Issued: 04/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: McKenna, Daniel B., Graziano, James M.
• Primary Examiner(s): HO, DUC CHI
• Application Number:
  US11/120,400
• Publication Number:
  US 20050197134A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,800 Days
• Field of Search: 370/335, 370/338, 370/401, 370/352, 370/342
• US Class Current: 370/401
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/2072 Schedules, e.g. personal calendars
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/14 with services dependent on location where the service is an information service H04M2242/15; services independent of location H04M3/42229
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42357 where the information is provided to a monitoring entity such as a potential calling party or a call processing server
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5322 for recording text messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53375 Message broadcasting
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/02 Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/20 Selecting an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/30 Resource management for broadcast services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/02 Inter-networking arrangements

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 said communique system can dynamically allocate the available bandwidth to thereby serve subscribers with more control channel(s) and/or control channel bandwidth and/or communication channels and/or communication channels of greater bandwidth as the need presents itself. The dynamic bandwidth allocation can simultaneously occur in multiple domains: time, code, and frequency. The content of these transmissions can be multi-media in nature and comprising a combination of various forms of media.

Claims

1. A communiqué

system for providing communiqué

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 site that covers a volume of space associated with a cell site transmitting antenna, comprising;

means for receiving program content from at least one of a plurality of program sources;

means for selecting at least one of said plurality of cell sites to provide a communiqué

service, wherein the communiqué

service comprises program content;

means for transmitting a program stream to said plurality of cell sites, wherein the program stream comprises communiqué

services;

means for transmitting program stream parsing control signals to said plurality of cell sites in order to define at least one communiqué

service from said program stream, wherein said parsing control signals enables excerpting communiqué

services from said program stream; and

means for routing the communiqué

service based upon said parsing control signals at the selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites for transmission via 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 to provide said communiqué

service.

2. The communiqué

system of claim 1, further comprising;

means for creating the communiqué

services by combining the at least one of said received program content into a plurality of program streams, each of which comprises at least one media from the class of media including;

audio, video, graphics, text, data, and the like.

3. The communiqué

system of claim 2, further comprising;

means, located in said at least one of said plurality of cell sites, for generating a plurality of communiqué

s from said received program stream and said program stream parsing control signals; and

means for transmitting said plurality of communiqué

s to said plurality of wireless subscriber devices served by said selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites.

4. The communiqué

system of claim 2, further comprising;

means for generating a plurality of subframes from said received program stream and said program stream parsing control signals for transmission to said plurality of wireless subscriber devices served by said selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites.

5. The communiqué

system of claim 4 further comprising;

means for generating program stream subframe parsing control signals to define at least one communiqué

that is excerpted from a subframe of said program stream; and

means for transmitting said received program stream subframe and said program stream subframe parsing control signals to said plurality of wireless subscriber devices served by said selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites.

6. A method of operating a communiqué

system for providing communiqué

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 site that covers a volume of space associated with a cell site transmitting antenna, comprising the steps of;

receiving program content from a plurality of program sources;

selecting at least one of said plurality of cell sites to provide a communiqué

service, wherein the communiqué

service comprises program content;

transmitting a program stream to said plurality of cell sites, wherein the program stream comprises communiqué

services;

transmitting program stream parsing control signals to said plurality of cell sites in order to define at least one communiqué

service from said program stream, wherein said parsing control signals enables excerpting communiqué

services from said program stream; and

routing the communiqué

service based upon said parsing control signals at the selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites for transmission via 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 to provide said communiqué

service.

7. The method of operating a communiqué

system of claim 6, further comprising;

creating the communiqué

services by combining said received program content into a plurality of program streams, each of which comprises at least one media from the class of media including;

audio, video, graphics, text, data, and the like.

8. The method of operating a communiqué

system of claim 7, further comprising the steps of;

generating, in said at least one of said plurality of cell sites, a plurality of communiqué

s from said received program stream and said program stream parsing control signals; and

transmitting said plurality of communiqué

s to said plurality of wireless subscriber devices served by said selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites.

9. The method of operating a communiqué

system of claim 7, further comprising the step of;

generating a plurality of subframes from said received program stream and said program stream parsing control signals for transmission to said plurality of wireless subscriber devices served by said selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites.

10. The method of operating a communiqué

system of claim 9, further comprising the steps of;

generating program stream subframe parsing control signals to define at least one communiqué

that is excerpted from a subframe of said program stream; and

transmitting said received program stream subframe and said program stream subframe parsing control signals to said plurality of wireless subscriber devices served by said selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites.

11. A communiqué

system for providing communiqué

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 site that covers a volume of space associated with a cell site transmitting antenna, comprising;

program manager means for receiving program content from a plurality of program sources;

spatial temporal content manager means for selecting at least one of said plurality of cell sites to provide a communiqué

service, wherein the communiqué

service comprises program content;

distribution means for transmitting a program stream and program stream parsing control signals to said plurality of cell sites, wherein the program stream comprises communiqué

services and the parsing control signals enable excerption of communiqué

services from said program stream; and

router means for routing the communiqué

service based upon said parsing control signals at the selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites for transmission via 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 to provide said communiqué

communication service.

12. The communiqué

system of claim 11, further comprising;

content scheduling means for combining said received program content into a plurality of program streams, each of which comprises at least one media from the class of media including;

audio, video, graphics, text, data, and the like.

13. The communiqué

system of claim 12, further comprising;

communiqué

generation means, located in said at least one of said plurality of cell sites, for generating a plurality of communiqué

s from said received program stream and said program stream parsing control signals; and

program distribution means for transmitting said plurality of communiqué

s to said plurality of wireless subscriber devices served by said selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites.

14. The communiqué

system of claim 13, further comprising;

subframe generating means for generating a plurality of subframes from said received program stream and said program stream parsing control signals for transmission to said plurality of wireless subscriber devices served by said selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites.

15. The communiqué

system of claim 14, further comprising;

subframe control means for generating program stream subframe parsing control signals to define at least one communiqué

that is excerpted from a subframe of said program stream; and

means for transmitting said received program stream subframe and said program stream subframe parsing control signals to said plurality of wireless subscriber devices served by said selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites.