Patent ID: 8570962

Claim:
A method of information selection in a wireless communication system performed in a propagator node, comprising: receiving a selection request signal via an access point over a neighbor interface module, wherein said selection request signal identifies information requested by a selector node, wherein said neighbor interface module is directly or indirectly associated with said selector node, and wherein said neighbor interface module is operable to provide connectivity to the selector node, wherein the neighbor interface module is one of a plurality of neighbor interface modules, and wherein the selector node is one of a plurality of selector nodes; determining all or a portion of said selection request signal matches all or a portion of a selection tag stored in a selection routing table, wherein the selection tag is one of a plurality of selection tags; storing all or a portion of said selection request signal in said selection routing table along with an identifier of the neighbor interface module; and forwarding said selection request signal to an information distribution gateway (IDG) node to promote obtaining said information, wherein the IDG node is coupled to the Internet.