Method for transmitting short messages

• US 20060120367A1
• Filed: 06/20/2001
• Published: 06/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Beckmann, Mark, Kowalewski, Frank, Hans, Martin, Bar, Siegfried, Schmidt, Gunnar, Gottschalk, Thomas, Schange, Frank, Laumen, Josef
• Granted Patent: US 7,684,811 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/390
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

A method is provided for transmitting a short message in a telecommunication network to a number of communication stations, wherein address data for the transmission of the short message to more than one communication station are transmitted with a short message, wherein a first header information item is transmitted with a number of data fields in the data section of the short message, each data field including the address data of at least one communication station, and in the second header information item, which is arranged preceding the first header information item, the address data of a first communication station or the network unit are transmitted.

Claims

1-11. -11. (canceled)

12. A method for transmitting a short message in a telecommunication network to a plurality of communication stations, the method comprising the steps of:

providing the short message with a second header information item and a data section; and

transmitting address data, for transmitting the short message to more than one communication station, with a short message, wherein in the data section of the short message a first header information item is transmitted with a plurality of data fields which include the address data of at least one communication station, and wherein in the second header information item, which is arranged to precede the first header information item, address data of one of a first communication station and a network unit are transmitted.

13. A method for transmitting a short message in a telecommunication network as claimed in claim 12, the method further comprising the step of indicating a presence of the first header information item in the data section of the short message by a signaling entry in the preceding second header information item.

14. A method for transmitting a short message in a telecommunication network as claimed in claim 12, wherein the telecommunication network is constructed as a GSM mobile radio network.

15. A method for transmitting a short message in a telecommunication network as claimed in claim 12, wherein the telecommunication network is constructed as a UMTS mobile radio network.

16. A method for transmitting a short message in a telecommunication network as claimed in claim 12, the method further comprising the step of transmitting, with the first header information item, at least one signaling identification data field which includes the signaling of the data fields.

17. A method for transmitting a short message in a telecommunication network as claimed in claim 16, wherein the at least one signaling identification data field specifies a type of address data.

18. A method for transmitting a short message in a telecommunication network as claimed in claim 12, wherein the at least one data field is transmitted in a data section of the short message preceding useful data of the short message.

19. A method for transmitting a short message in a telecommunication network as claimed in claim 12, the method further comprising the step of transmitting, with the first header information item, at least one destination address data field which includes a destination address of the short message.

20. A method for transmitting a short message in a telecommunication network as claimed in claim 19, the method further comprising the step of transmitting an address identification data field preceding each destination address data field which specifies a type of the destination address.

21. A method for transmitting a short message in a telecommunication network as claimed in claim 19, the method further comprising the step of transmitting at least one length data field preceding each destination address data field in the first header information item.

22. A method for transmitting a short message in a telecommunication network as claimed in claim 16, wherein for a plurality of destination address data fields, exactly one signaling identification data field is transmitted with the first header information item.

23. A method for transmitting a short message in a telecommunication network as claimed in claim 12, wherein the short message is first transmitted to a network unit of the telecommunication network, and an address of at least one of the communication stations is extracted from the first header information item of the short message in order to send its content at least partially to the address.