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Multicast communications within a wireless communications network

  • US 8,619,669 B2
  • Filed: 09/17/2008
  • Issued: 12/31/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of multicast management within a wireless communications network including a plurality of sectors, comprising:

  • forming a target sector group, the target sector group including each target sector from among the plurality of sectors, each target sector expected to have one or more access terminals belonging to a given multicast group based upon receipt of at least one registration message from the one or more access terminals;

    forming a supporting sector group, the supporting sector group including at least one supporting sector from among the plurality of sectors, each supporting sector not being a target sector and satisfying a proximity metric with respect to at least one target sector; and

    transmitting multicast messages associated with a multicast communication session for the given multicast group in each sector of the target sector group and the supporting sector group.

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