Transmission frame and radio unit with transmission frame

• US 20090291698A1
• Filed: 07/30/2009
• Published: 11/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Frank Kowalewski, Gunnar Schmidt, Hans Martin, Holger Schulz, Ralf Fischer
• Original Assignee: Frank Kowalewski, Gunnar Schmidt, Hans Martin, Holger Schulz, Ralf Fischer
• Inventors: Schulz, Holger, Kowalewski, Frank, Fischer, Ralf, Hans, Martin, Schmidt, Gunnar
• Granted Patent: US 8,243,654 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/063 Content adaptation, e.g. replacement of unsuitable content
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

For transmitting messages in a radiotelecommunications network from a first subscriber station, a transmission frame at least two data fields with data in a first data format transmitted in a first data field of the short message, and data in a second data format, different from the first data format, are transmitted in a second data field of the short message, a first identification code, which identifies a makeup of the short message, is transmitted in the first data field and includes information about at least one of a number of data fields, one or more data formats of data in the data fields, and a size of the data fields, and in each of two data fields, one data-field-specific identification code, which identifies a makeup and content of the corresponding data field, per data field is transmitted.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting messages in a radiotelecommunications network from a first subscriber station, the method comprising transmitting short messages using a transmission frame, the transmission frame comprising:

at least two data fields, wherein data in a first data format are transmitted in a first data field of the short message, and data in a second data format, different from the first data format, are transmitted in a second data field of the short message,

wherein a first identification code, which identifies a makeup of the short message, is transmitted in the first data field, the first identification code including information about at least one of a number of data fields, one or more data formats of data in the data fields, and a size of the data fields,

wherein in each of at least two data fields, one data-field-specific identification code, which identifies a makeup and content of the corresponding data field, per data field is transmitted.

2. The method for transmitting of claim 1, wherein in a second identification code, which identifies a content of the short message, is transmitted in the first data field.

3. The method for transmitting of claim 2, wherein the second identification code includes information about the data type of the data transmitted in the data fields.

4. The method for transmitting of claim 1, wherein only the first data field is limited in its size to a predetermined value.

5. The method for transmitting of claim 1, wherein the data transmitted in the first data field are transmitted in a data format that is capable of being read by all the subscriber stations of the telecommunications network.

6. The method for transmitting in claim 1, wherein the data transmitted in the first data field are in a text format, in accordance with the GSM-SMS (Global System for Mobile Communications-Short Message Service) format.

7. The method for transmitting of claim 1, wherein data are transmitted in a plurality of data formats in one of the data fields.

8. The method for transmitting of claim 1, wherein only data in a single data format are transmitted in each data field.

9. A radio telecommunications device comprising:

a memory

a message generator adapted to generate a message for transmission by arranging transmission data in a transmission frame,

wherein at least two data fields are provided in the transmission frame, wherein data of the message are stored in said memory in the data fields, and wherein data in a first data format are stored in a first data field of the short message and data in a second data format, different from the first data format, are stored in a second data field of the message.

wherein a first identification code, which identifies the makeup of the message, is provided in the first data field, the first identification code including information about the number of data fields and/or about the data formats in the data fields, and/or about the size of the data fields,

wherein in each of at least two data fields, one data-field-specific ID code, which identifies the makeup and/or content of the corresponding data field, per data field is provided.