Appeal No. 2002-1006 Application 09/132,351 (step 510) shown in Appellant’s figure 6. See page 13 of Appellant’s specification. If the short message signal received by the short message service center includes a short message group registration information, the controller 710 will execute a short message group registration mode routine. In Appellant’s figure 6, the controller 710 stores the called subscriber numbers in corresponding addresses that are associated with and/or assigned to the group identifier (step 603). See page 14 of Appellant’s specification. Claim 1 is representative of the claimed invention and is reproduced as follows: 1. A method for transmitting a short message to a plurality of subscribers in a mobile communication system, comprising the steps of: registering a plurality of called subscriber numbers in a short message service center of said mobile communication system by associating each of said plurality of called subscriber numbers with a group identifier, the group identifier being a separately defined field; and simultaneously transmitting said short message to each of said plurality of called subscriber numbers by designating said group identifier. 4Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007