Patent ID: 8041366

Claim:
An apparatus for transmitting and deleting a regional information message that is available and effective only in a service zone of a Base Station (BS), the apparatus comprising: the base station (BS) for communicating with a mobile station (MS) using a radio resource and transmitting information about whether the MS is located in the service zone of the BS to a home location register (HLR); the HLR for transmitting location information of the MS to a message control server, the location information indicating whether the MS is located in the service zone of the BS for transmission of the regional information message; and the message control server for transmitting the regional information message or a deletion request message for deleting the regional information message to the MS depending on the location information of the MS, wherein the message control server transmits the regional information message to the MS when the MS is located in the service zone of the BS and transmits the deletion request message to the MS when the MS leaves the service zone of the BS; wherein the MS determines whether a received message is the regional information message using a teleservice ID of the received message, only stores the regional information message when a regional information message RX mode is set in the MS, and deletes only the regional information message among messages stored therein based on a teleservice ID of the regional information message when receiving the deletion request message having the teleservice ID of the regional information message; and wherein the location of the MS is determined using the location information received from the HLR.