Patent 7610043 was granted and assigned to LG on October, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A duplicate notification message processing method in a terminal is disclosed. The method includes receiving a notification message indicating the reception of a multimedia message from an MMS server; deleting the notification message when the notification message is a duplicate notification message and a multimedia message corresponding to the notification message has been downloaded, and transmitting either a response message for the notification message or a request message for a multimedia message when the notification message is not a duplicate notification message.