Patent ID: 6097944
Filing Date: 2000-08-01
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
A system for linking transmission control to multiple transmission sites over a wide area in which said sites are grouped into one or more zones, said system comprising:a controller for receiving data representing transmission requests and associating a unique identifier to each of said transmission requests, and for sending transmissions having control information to sites in one or more zones by addressing each of said transmissions with one of a plurality of zone addresses in which each of said zone addresses defines one or more zones;said control information being one of a plurality of different types in which a first of said types of control information has data representing one of said received transmission requests and its associated identifier, and a second of said types of control information has batching instructions identifying the transmission requests in accordance with their associated identifiers to be batched transmitted by a site;each of said sites having a database for storing received transaction requests with their associated identifier; andeach of said sites being responsive to received transmissions with said control information from said controller having a zone address within a predetermined set of zone addresses, wherein the site, responsive to said first type of control information, stores the data representing the transmission request and associated identifier of said first type control information in the database at the site, and the site, responsive to said second type of control information, batches the transmission requests stored in the database of the site having identifiers identified by the batching instructions of said second type of control information, and transmits said batched transmission requests.