Patent ID: 6687498
Filing Date: 2004-02-03
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A communique 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 selecting a plurality of cells, at least one of which fails to be contiguous with any of the remaining ones of said selected plurality of cells, to provide a communique to a plurality of subscribers; and router means for routing data, constituting said communique, from a selected program source to cell sites associated with said selected at least one of said plurality of cells for transmission via a 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 cells, in at least one of said selected cell sites 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.