Patent ID: 7515915

Claim:
Apparatus for a radio communication system operating pursuant to a GSM/3GPP (Global System for Mobile Communications/3 rd Generation Partnership Project) operating specification having a mobile node operable to communicate with a network part of a communication network, and the radio communication system having a plurality of service centers to which a call, originated at the mobile node, is routable by way of the network part, said apparatus for facilitating placement of the call to a selected service center said apparatus comprising: an application server having a database wherein area-dependent short dialing codes for a plurality of service centers are stored and wherein a plurality of mnemonics that identify names associated with short dialing codes are stored, the application server storing each mnemonic for a short dialing code in a plurality of different languages; a network-positioned code-delivery detector adapted to receive from the application server, an area-dependent short dialing code for the selected service center and to receive from the application server, the mnemonic, in a plurality of different languages, that identifies the name associated with the short dialing code received from the application server, and an identifier-code broadcast scheduler coupled to said network-positioned code-delivery detector to receive the area-dependent short dialing code and the mnemonic in the plurality of different languages, said identifier-code broadcast scheduler for scheduling the broadcast of the area-dependent short dialing code and the received mnemonic in the plurality of different languages throughout areas encompassed by the network part, said broadcast being upon a cell broadcast channel associated with the network part for delivery to a mobile node, the area-dependent short dialing code and mnemonic in the plurality of different languages when delivered thereto, for being indexed together with permanently stored values maintained at the mobile node.