Patent ID: 6907023

Claim:
A communiqué system for providing a communiqué, constituting program content concurrently delivered to a plurality of 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 that covers a predetermined volume of space around a cell site transmitting antenna, comprising: means for receiving program content from a plurality of program sources; means for selecting at least one of said plurality of cells to provide a communiqué to a plurality of subscribers who are authorized to receive said communiqué and who are served by said selected at least one of said plurality of cells, independent of the presence of subscribers who are authorized to receive said communiqué and who are served by other cells of said cellular communication network; and means for routing program content, constituting said communiqué from at least one of said plurality of program sources to cell sites associated with said selected at least one of said plurality of cells for concurrent transmission via a one of said plurality of wireless communication channels to a plurality of wireless subscriber devices of subscribers who are authorized to receive said communiqué and who are served by said selected at least one of said plurality of cells to provide said communiqué communication service.