Patent ID: 7519380

Claim:
A method for receiving a wireless message in a mobile telecommunication system comprising: receiving a first short message service (SMS) message of a multimedia message service (MMS) notification message at a mobile station (MS); performing a flag setting in the MS after receiving the first SMS message of the MMS notification message, the flag setting to restrain routing area update (RAU) processing and to allow the MS to monitor a paging channel; receiving a second SMS message of the MMS notification message at the MS while the flag setting restrains the RAU processing and while the MS is monitoring the paging channel, wherein performing the flag setting occurs prior to receiving the second SMS message at the MS, the second SMS message of the MMS notification message being different than the first SMS message of the MMS notification message; releasing the flag setting in response to receiving the second SMS message at the MS; performing the RAU processing in response to releasing the flag setting; and after performing the RAU processing, forming one MMS notification message at the MS from the received first SMS message and the received second SMS message, wherein the RAU processing is prevented from being performed when the flag is set.