Patent ID: 7194277

Claim:
A method of handling messages in a mobile telecommunications system, the system comprising a network of a plurality of cells and at least one user equipment device, the method comprising: receiving at the user equipment device a non-broadcast message from the network; examining the non-broadcast message to identify a cell identifier relating to the cell of the network from which the non-broadcast message was first queued to be sent; when a cell identifier is identified, examining the cell identifier to determine if the cell of the network from which the non-broadcast message was first queued to be sent corresponds with the cell of the network with which the user equipment device is currently communicating; and when the cell of the network from which the non-broadcast message was first queued to be sent does not correspond with a cell of the network with which the user equipment device is currently communicating, the user equipment does not fully carry out the requirement of the non-broadcast message.