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Apparatus and method for handling messages that relate to a cell other than the currently operating cell in universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment

  • US 7,194,277 B2
  • Filed: 11/10/2003
  • Issued: 03/20/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of handling messages in a mobile telecommunications system, the system comprising a network of a plurality of cells and at least one user equipment device, the method comprising:

  • receiving at the user equipment device a non-broadcast message from the network;

    examining the non-broadcast message to identify a cell identifier relating to the cell of the network from which the non-broadcast message was first queued to be sent;

    when a cell identifier is identified, examining the cell identifier to determine if the cell of the network from which the non-broadcast message was first queued to be sent corresponds with the cell of the network with which the user equipment device is currently communicating; and

    when the cell of the network from which the non-broadcast message was first queued to be sent does not correspond with a cell of the network with which the user equipment device is currently communicating, the user equipment does not fully carry out the requirement of the non-broadcast message.

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