Patent ID: 7151764

Claim:
A method in a wireless access point for reducing the protocol stacks needed to rapidly communicate a message to a wireless mobile device and display it to the user, comprising: storing in a wireless access point device an Access Point Service Indicator (APSI) message describing offerings of a service platform coupled to the access point device, the APSI message having a unique message ID in its header; sending from the wireless access point a first occurring packet containing information to alert a wireless mobile device that a following packet contains the APSI message and is qualified to bypass intervening protocol layers beneath an application layer in the wireless mobile device; sending the APSI message from the access point to the mobile device; and alerting a transport protocol layer in the mobile device to pass said APSI message directly to the application layer in the mobile device, without needing to construct or pass through intervening layers, by means of the unique message ID in the header of the APSI message.