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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2006
Jeffrey Jason Griffin, Raleigh, NC (US);
Jeffrey Jason Griffin, Raleigh, NC (US);
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Lund, SE;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for facilitating group communications across multiple groups of wireless communication devices is described herein. A first wireless communication device is joined to a first group of wireless communication devices, and a second wireless communication device is joined to the first group and to a second group of wireless communication devices. When the first wireless communication device sets a retransmit indicator in a group message transmitted to the second wireless communication device, the second wireless communication device automatically retransmits the received group message to other wireless communication devices in the second group.