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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2008
Robert D. Logalbo, Rolling Meadows, IL (US);
Bradley M. Hiben, Glen Ellyn, IL (US);
Robert D. LoGalbo, Rolling Meadows, IL (US);
Bradley M. Hiben, Glen Ellyn, IL (US);
Motorola Solutions, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus is provided for establishing communication pathways between infrastructure devices in a wide area communication network prior to transmission of a group message packet by a source wireless communication device (WCD). In one implementation, the infrastructure devices (IDs) can include a home ID of the source WCD, a first ID and a second ID. A home steward module (HSM) of the source WCD generates a distribution list (DL) for communications from the source WCD to a first communication group (CG), and communicates it to an envoy packet duplicator module (EPDM) located at the first ID. The first CG includes, for example, a first destination WCD. A first network socket of the EPDM is communicated from the HSM to a second envoy module (located at the second ID) for the first destination WCD. The HSM maps a second network socket for the second envoy module to an identifier of the first destination WCD, and communicates this mapping to the EPDM. A first communication connection can then be established between the first network socket and the second network socket.