Patent ID: 6128472
Filing Date: 2000-10-03
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
In a two-way pager network wherein a central base station receives inbound messages from a plurality of subscriber units via a plurality of receiver sites, and wherein a central base station controller is adapted for receiving only one inbound message from a selected subscriber unit during each one of a plurality of inbound transmission time slots, a method for increasing inbound message traffic to said central base station, comprising:providing a message management system between said plurality of receiver sites and said central base station controller;grouping selected ones of the plurality of subscriber units into a multicast group for simultaneously transmitting messages to said message management system, said simultaneously transmitted messages making up a multicast message group;receiving, at the plurality of receiver sites coupled to the message management system, said simultaneously transmitted messages of said multicast message group;directing exactly one selected message of said multicast message group to said central base station controller; anddiverting remaining messages of said multicast message group to a message processor.