Appeal No. 2002-1006
Application 09/132,351
subscribers in a GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication)
system. See page 1 of Appellant’s specification. Referring to
Appellant’s figures 3a and 3b, a flow diagram illustrates a
method for transmitting a short message by a GSM terminal to a
GSM system. If the short message transmission mode is selected,
the controller 1 causes display unit 4 to instruct the calling
subscriber to input a service center address which is a short
message service center number (step 305). If the short message
group registration mode is selected, the controller 1 performs a
short message group registration mode routine (step 318). See
page 8 of Appellant’s specification.
If the group transmission mode is selected, the calling
subscriber is instructed to input a group identifier to which the
short message is transmitted (step 309). If the group identifier
is inputted, the caller subscriber is then instructed to input a
short message (step 312). If the transmit key is selected, the
controller 1 transmits the stored short message service center
address, group identifier and short message. See page 9 of
Appellant’s specification.
Referring now to figure 4, a flow diagram illustrates the
short message group registration mode routine (step 318 in fig.
3A). If the short message group registration mode is selected
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