Patent ID: 8423053

Claim:
A method for mobile terminals to receive text messages, comprising: paging a mobile terminal by a network server to determine whether text messages can be sent wherein when said network server pages the mobile terminal, it pages an entire network of said mobile terminal; responding to the paging by said network server, unless said mobile terminal is in a packet transfer state, and receiving text messages sent by said network server to said mobile terminal during switching in and out of the packet transfer state; checking for position update information from said mobile terminal and terminating the paging in response to said network server not receiving a response from said mobile terminal; sending the position update from the mobile terminal information from said mobile terminal to said network server after updating the position update information; re-registering the update information of said mobile terminal by said network server; and continuing to page said mobile terminal according to the position update information of said mobile terminal so as to take an action to send text messages.