Patent ID: 6954641
Filing Date: 2005-10-11
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A communiqué wireless subscriber device for providing communiqué services to subscribers, 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, said cellular communication network transmitting communiqués on at least one of said plurality of wireless communication channels, said communiqué wireless subscriber device comprising: means for communicating on a wireless basis with at least one of said plurality of cell sites; means for storing a communiqué wireless subscriber device identifier that is not unique to said communiqué wireless subscriber device; means for storing a communiqué identifier that is not unique to said communiqué wireless subscriber device; means for registering said communiqué wireless subscriber device with said cellular communication network using said communiqué wireless subscriber device identifier, and means, responsive to said registration and a selection by said subscriber using said communiqué identifier, for selecting at least one of said plurality of wireless communication channels corresponding to said selection to receive, concurrently with more than one of plurality of wireless subscriber devices, said communiqués that are transmitted by said cell sites on said selected at least one of said plurality of wireless communication channels.