Patent ID: 8433748

Claim:
A method for processing a notification message, comprising: receiving, by a terminal, a structure of description information from a server; receiving, by the terminal, a notification message carrying description information from the server, wherein the description information comprises a parameter; determining, by the terminal, an identifier of the parameter and a parameter value corresponding to the identifier of the parameter according to the structure of the description information; and wherein the receiving the structure of description information from the server comprises: obtaining, by the terminal, the structure of the description information via a Uniform Resource Identifier, URI or Uniform Resource Locator, URL, and storing the structure, wherein a file of an Auxiliary Data structure in an electronic service guide, ESG, comprises the structure of the description information, or a file in a server comprises the structure of the description information, and the URI or URL of the file being carried in the parameter MediaLocator or service fragment parameter in the data structure of the relevant content of ESG that is sent to the terminal; or obtaining, by the terminal, the structure of the description information directly, and storing the structure, wherein the parameter MediaLocator or service fragment parameter in the data structure of the relevant content of ESG that is sent to the terminal comprises the structure of the description information.