Patent ID: 7953457

Claim:
A method for use in reducing power consumption in a mobile communication device configured to communicate in a wireless communication network which includes one or more wireless access points, the method comprising the acts of: sending, from the mobile communication device to a wireless communication network, a message which indicates a plurality of different protocol types of broadcast messages to be processed as broadcast-to-unicast messages for the mobile communication device during a low power mode of operation, said indicated protocol types including an Internet Protocol (IP) type, and wherein the protocol type of a given broadcast message is defined in a protocol identifier field of the broadcast message; during the low power mode of operation: controlling a wireless receiver of the mobile communication device to remain powered down during all broadcasts of broadcast messages from the one or more wireless access points of the wireless communication network; and for each broadcast message of each said indicated protocol type as defined in the protocol identifier field which is broadcasted from the one or more wireless access points during the low power mode of operation: monitoring to receive, through the wireless receiver, a unicast message from the wireless communication network, and identifying broadcast message information of the broadcast message within the unicast message.