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          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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