Patent ID: 8001263

Claim:
A method for suspending content reception, the method performed by a mobile communication terminal and comprising: receiving, by the mobile communication terminal, content through at least one channel between a Dynamic Content Delivery (DCD) client in the mobile communication terminal and a DCD server; and performing, by the mobile communication terminal, a content reception suspension procedure due to satisfaction of a content reception suspension condition when the mobile communication terminal is roaming outside of a home network, said content reception suspension procedure including: locally terminating, by the DCD client, a transaction for reception of the content upon the satisfaction of the content reception suspension condition; transmitting, by the DCD client in the mobile communication terminal to the DCD server, an error notification message for reporting that the reception is suspended before the reception of the content is completed, the error notification message including a first element indicating that reception of the content via the at least one channel is suspended, the error notification message also including a second element indicating a number of bytes received; transmitting, from the DCD client to the DCD server, a channel suspend request message that includes a third element specifying a suspended channel ID related to said at least one channel for which content reception is suspended, wherein if the third element has a null value, the third element indicates all non-emergency channels are suspended; and receiving a channel suspend response message from the DCD server, the channel suspend response message including a fourth element containing an ID of a session and a channel suspend response message ID related to said at least one channel for which content reception is suspended.