Abstract: The present invention provides a method for managing in a mobile subscriber the traffic flow of a communication connection during a cell reselection. The method includes communicating via a communication connection with a first cell, and monitoring communication conditions, while communicating with the first cell. An approximate time is then determined, when conditions associated with the flow of communication via the communication connection with the first cell is consistent with transferring the flow of communication to a communication connection with a second cell. The mobile subscriber then establishes a communication connection with the second cell, while maintaining the communication connection with the first cell.

Abstract: A method (200, 400) and an apparatus (500) in a wireless communication system for communicating contents of a broadcast message are provided. A wireless portable communication device (104) receives an emergency status indicator associated with the broadcast message from a base station (102). Upon determining the broadcast message is an emergency message, the contents of the broadcast message are immediately communicated.

Abstract: A method in a mobile wireless communication device capable of receiving a paging message transmitted in a series of bursts over successive time frames including receiving (210) not more than one burst of an incoming paging message, determining (220) whether the incoming paging message corresponds to a known paging message, and (230) reducing power consumption of radio circuits of the mobile wireless communication device during time frames when other bursts would be received if the incoming paging message corresponds to the known paging message. If the incoming data does not correspond to the known data, additional burst are received and decoded.

Abstract: An apparatus (100) and method (200) for enabling a wireless portable communication device in a limited service mode to receive an incoming call is provided. As the wireless portable communication device in the limited service mode initially makes a call to an emergency service center such as police (214), the call identifies the wireless portable communication device by a user module identity (308) or by an equipment identity (314), enabling the emergency service center to initiate a return call to the wireless portable communication device (216).

Abstract: An apparatus (100) and method (200) for enabling a wireless communication device operating during access class restrictions to receive an incoming emergency call for a predefined time period are provided. After the wireless communication device (100) makes an emergency call to an emergency service center such as police (216), the wireless communication device (100) is enabled to respond to a return call from the emergency service center (218). The wireless communication device accepts the return call based upon the emergency access class information (408) and the priority level (410) of the return call.

Abstract: A simplified version of a defined GPRS/EDGE Class A mobile station that incorporates transmission and reception of GPRS/EDGE data during discontinuous transmission and reception modes on a dedicated traffic channel, and that includes a mechanism for streaming GPRS/EDGE data to and from a packet-switched channel, along with optional association of a voice timeslot with one or more GPRS/EDGE data timeslots. GPRS/EDGE packet data and circuit-switched voice data are simultaneously transmitting along a dedicated GSM voice traffic channel by transmitting the GPRS/EDGE packet data between occurrences of circuit-switched voice data and silence descriptor frame data along a dedicated voice traffic channel.