METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRIORITIZING DELETION OF RECEIVED MESSAGES BASED ON MESSAGE SOURCE AND MESSAGE ORDER

摘要

A RADIO RECEIVER (110) FOR RECEIVING MESSAGES FROM A PLURALITY OF SOURCES COMRPISES A MESSAGE DATABASE (252) FOR STORING THE MESSAGES AND SOURCES FROM WHICH THE MESSAGES ORIGINATE AND A PROCESSING UNIT (220) FOR DETERMINING WHETHER EACH SOURCE HAS A STATUS OF ANCHORED OR UNANCHORED. THE PROCESSING UNIT (220) FURTHER FLAGS LAST RECEIVED MESSAGES FROM ANCHORED SOURCES TO INDICATE THAT THE LAST RECEIVED MESSAGES ARE ANCHORED MESSAGES WHICH ARE TO BE DELECTED ONLY AFTER DELECTION OF UNANCHORED MESSAGES WHICH ARE NOT FLAGGED AS ANCHORED MESSAGES.