Patent ID: 6741856
Filing Date: 2004-05-25
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A communiquÃ© system for providing communiquÃ© virtual private network communication services to subscribers, 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:means, responsive to a narrowcast host initiating a virtual private network narrowcast, for selecting at least one of said plurality of cell sites to provide a virtual private network narrowcast communiquÃ© communication service; means for interconnecting said narrowcast host and a plurality of wireless subscriber devices participating in said virtual private network narrowcast via said selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites; and means for routing information, constituting said virtual private network narrowcast communiquÃ© communication service, among said narrowcast host and a plurality of wireless subscriber devices participating in said virtual private network narrowcast via selected ones of said plurality of wireless communication channels in said selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites.