While one node (such as a wireless mobile node) facilitates a
point-to-multipoint communication via a communications network (10),
communication requests from other nodes in the multipoint audience are
queued in a node queue (17). At some point (in a preferred approach, at
the conclusion of the transmission by the one node), and typically for a
predetermined amount of time, communication requests are further noted.
These more recent indicia of a desire to communicate are then utilized to
modify the node queue. Subsequent communications are then arranged, at
least in part, based upon the modified node queue.