Patent ID: 7190955

Claim:
A user equipment apparatus adapted to receive messages from a UTRAN, select messages having a select command, each command having an activation time for invoking an RRC procedure at the user equipment, the apparatus comprising: a message handler to receive a received message from the UTRAN, the received message having a received command, said message handler capable of extracting the received command from the received message thereby providing a received activation time and a received RRC procedure reference; a sequential processor to receive an ongoing command having an ongoing activation time for invoking an ongoing RRC procedure, said sequential processor capable of invoking the ongoing RRC procedure at the ongoing activation time; a command store connected to the message handler to save the received command, said command store capable of storing the received command thereby providing a saved activation time and a saved RRC procedure reference; wherein said message handler is coupled to said command store and is coupled to said sequential processor to save and process commands respectively, and to determine if there is an existing command at the user equipment, the existing command being one of the saved command and the ongoing command, such that the user equipment appears to the UTRAN as though it were processing the select commands simultaneously while actually processing the existing command sequentially.