摘要 |
A method and apparatus control message transmissions in an acknowledge-back selective call communication system (100) including an infrastructure (102) and a selective call receiver (120). The selective call receiver (120) stores received messages in a memory (322). The infrastructure (102) transmits (604) to the selective call receiver (120) information including the length (408) of a pending message, and the selective call receiver (120) determines (606) therefrom a response (412, 504) based upon the length (408) of the pending message and memory space available in the memory (322). The selective call receiver (120) transmits (608) the response (412, 504) to the infrastructure (102), and the infrastructure (102) controls further processing of the pending message in accordance with the response (412, 504).
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