Patent ID: 7693162

Claim:
A communiqué system for providing communiqué services to 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 site that covers a volume of space associated with a cell site transmitting antenna, comprising: means for receiving program content from at least one of a plurality of program sources; means for selecting at least one of said plurality of cell sites to provide a communiqué service, wherein the communiqué service comprises program content; means for transmitting a program stream to said plurality of cell sites, wherein the program stream comprises communiqué services; means for transmitting program stream parsing control signals to said plurality of cell sites in order to define at least one communiqué service from said program stream, wherein said parsing control signals enables excerpting communiqué services from said program stream; and means for routing the communiqué service based upon said parsing control signals at the selected at least one of said plurality of cell sites for transmission via 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 cell sites to provide said communiqué service.