Patent ID: 8260326

Claim:
A method of receiving a Short Message Service (SMS) message by a mobile station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a paging message including a first field indicating whether there is a broadcast SMS message to be received from a base station; if the first field is set to a value indicating that the broadcast SMS message is to be received, decoding a broadcast MAP Information Element (IE), wherein the broadcast MAP IE comprises an indication of a data burst allocation region included in a data region of a Down Link (DL) subframe, and a broadcast transport Connection Identifier (CID) comprising a unique identifier needed to broadcast a same data burst to all mobile stations within a base station; recognizing the broadcast transport CID indicating a channel over which to transmit the broadcast SMS message, and the data burst allocation region; and receiving the broadcast SMS message, transmitted using a resource of the data burst allocation region, wherein the DL subframe is transmitted through the channel over which to transmit the broadcast SMS message.