Patent ID: 8280457

Claim:
A method for use in a server of a communication network for communicating messages to a mobile communication device configured to operate in a wireless communication network, the method comprising: receiving, from the mobile communication device, a message which includes a plurality of protocol type identifiers and an identification of the mobile communication device, the protocol type identifiers being indicative of all prototype types of messages the mobile communication device is configured to process; storing in memory the plurality of protocol type identifiers in association with the identification of the mobile communication device; receiving a broadcast message which is broadcasted in the wireless communication network, the broadcast message including a protocol type identifier in a protocol type identifier field; identifying whether the protocol type identifier from the broadcast message corresponds to one of the protocol type identifiers stored in association with the identification of the mobile communication device; if the protocol type identifier from the broadcast message corresponds to one of the protocol type identifiers stored in association with the identification, then: producing, from the broadcast message, a unicast message which includes information from the broadcast message; sending the unicast message to the mobile communication device via the wireless communication network; and if the protocol type identifier from the broadcast message fails to correspond to the protocol type identifiers stored in association with the identification, then refraining from producing and sending the unicast message to the mobile communication device.