Patent ID: 7206594

Claim:
A wireless chat group system, comprising: a controlling computer having a processor that executes computer instructions; a wireless access point connected to the controlling computer; two or more wireless communication devices each having a processor that executes computer instructions wherein the wireless communication devices communicate with the wireless access point and wherein a first wireless communication device further comprises computer instructions that request a chat session by communicating with the controlling computer through the wireless access point; and wherein the controlling computer further comprises a chat group module having a chat group session manager and an address assignment module, the address assignment module further comprising computer instructions that assign a multicast internet protocol address to the chat session and the chat group session manager further comprising computer instructions that communicate a wake-up packet with the multicast internet protocol address to the wireless communications devices associated with the chat session and computer instructions that start a timer when the first wireless communication device completes its transmission over the multicast internet protocol address wherein the multicast internet protocol address for the chat session remains assigned to the chat session as long as another transmission over the multicast internet protocol address occurs before the timer times out.