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.
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