Patent ID: 7096044

Claim:
For use in a mobile cellular telecommunications network for displaying a display message on a personal cellular telecommunications device, the display message being transportable over an air interface by P≧1 Point-To-MultiPoint (PTMP) broadcast messages each comprising a) a header including i) a macromessage identifier for identifying a macromessage; ii) a macromessage page field for specifying a total number of pages I in a macromessage where K≧I≧1 and K is a predetermined maximum number of PTMP broadcast messages in a macromessage; and iii) a macromessage page counter for specifying a page number J=(1, 2, . . . , I−1, I≦K) of a PTMP broadcast message in a macromessage, and b) a payload including a reserved pseudo-header and a payload remainder for storing actual content, the pseudo-header having i) a display message identifier for identifying a display message; and ii) a PTMP broadcast message counter Q=(1, 2, . . . , P−1, P) for specifying the location of a PTMP broadcast message in a sequence of P PTMP broadcast messages.