Patent ID: RE43153

Claim:
A method of providing a broadcasting message service in a communication system, comprising: receiving a transmission request message for a short message service broadcast message from an information provider to a messaging center, the transmission request message including a telephone number of the information provider; processing the telephone number of the information provider by the messaging center to include it in a telephone number subparameter of the broadcast message to be transmitted in addition to a user data subparameter of the broadcast message; transmitting the broadcast message from the messaging center to a plurality of terminals through a base station; receiving the broadcast message, including the telephone number subparameter, at each of the plurality of terminals; displaying the contents of the telephone number subparameter and the user data subparameter on a display device of the terminal; at least one of (a) storing the contents of the telephone number subparameter and (b) initiating communications with the information provider using the telephone number provided in the telephone number subparameter in accordance with an input command; determining whether or not a store key of at least one of the plurality of terminals is pressed; and when the store key is pressed, storing the telephone number of the information provider in a number field of an address directory of said terminal, wherein the at least one terminal stores a prescribed number of bytes of the contents of the user data subparameter as the name of said information provider in a name field of the address directory of said terminal.