SELECTIVE CALL RECEIVER AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DIVERSITY MESSAGES

摘要

In a communication system that transmits diversity messages (an original message followed by one or more copies thereof), a selective call receiver (10) which receives an original message and one or more copies will display only one of the received messages and discard the others without displaying them. This is accomplished by storing in a memory (30) the identification tag of the message that was displayed and deleted. The identical identification tags carried by later copies of the same message are compared to the stored identification tag. If a match is found, this indicates that an earlier version of the received message has already been displayed and deleted, whereupon the received copy is discarded.