Transmission frame and radio unit with transmission frame

• US 7,586,870 B2
• Filed: 11/17/2005
• Issued: 09/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: IPCom GmbH & Co KG
• Original Assignee: IPCom GmbH & Co KG
• Inventors: Schulz, Holger, Fischer, Ralf, Kowalewski, Frank, Hans, Martin, Schmidt, Gunnar
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel; Jayanti K
• Assistant Examiner(s): PARK, JUNG H
• Application Number:
  US11/283,590
• Publication Number:
  US 20060135186A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,391 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/328
• 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

A transmission frame and a telecommunications device (60, 65, 70) having a transmission frame (1) are proposed, which are used to transmit short messages (5) in a telecommunications network (10), in particular in a radiotelecommunications network. By means of the transmission frame (1), especially flexible transmission of short messages (5) in the telecommunications network (10) is possible. At least two data fields (15, 20, 25, 30) are provided. Data of a short message (5) are stored in memory in the data fields (15, 20, 25, 30). Data in a first data format are stored in a first data field (15), and data in a second data format, different from the first data format, are stored in a second data field (20).

Claims

1. A method for processing a short message in a radio telecommunications network, including the steps of at a subscriber station:

receiving a notification of a storage of a short message stored in said network, wherein data of the short message are stored in a transmission frame having at least two data fields, wherein data in the first data format are stored in a first data field and data in a second data format, different from the first data format, are stored in a second data field and wherein a first ID code, which identifies a makeup of the short message, is provided in the first data field;

requesting the transmission of the first data field;

receiving said first data field including said first ID code;

evaluating the second data format based on a the first ID code;

deciding whether the data stored in the second data are to be downloaded from the network on said evaluating;

in the event that said second data are to be downloaded, receiving said second data field; and

playing back the short message in visual and/or acoustical form.

2. The method of claim 1, further including the steps of storing the second data field in memory, after the step of receiving the second data field.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmission frame includes in each of at least two data fields, one data-field-specific ID code, which identifies the makeup and/or content of a corresponding data field per data field, and wherein the method further includes the step of evaluating the received data fields on a basis of the data-field-specific ID codes.

4. The method of claim 3, further including the step of adapting by means of the data-specific-ID codes a playback of the data transmitted with the data fields to its own playback capabilities.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmission frame includes in the first data field a second ID code, which identifies a content of the short message, and wherein the method further includes the step of evaluating the received data fields on a basis of the second ID code.

6. The method of claim 1, further including the steps of adapting a playback of the data transmitted with the data fields to its own playback capabilities.

7. A subscriber station being adapted to perform the method according to claim 1.

8. A method for processing a short message in a radio telecommunications network, including the steps of at a subscriber station;

receiving a notification of a short message stored in said network, wherein data of the short message are stored in a transmission frame having at least two data fields, wherein data in a first data format are stored in a first data field and data in a second data format, different from the first data format, are stored in a second data field, wherein a first ID code, which identifies a makeup of the short message, is provided in the first data field, and wherein the transmission frame includes 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;

requesting the transmission of the first data field;

receiving said first data field including said first ID code;

evaluating the second data format based on a the first ID code;

deciding whether the data stored in the second data are to be downloaded from the network based on said evaluating;

in the event that said second data are to be downloaded, receiving said second data field and storing the received data fields in memory;

further evaluating the received data fields on a basis of the data field specific ID codes;

adapting by means of the data-specific-ID codes a playback of the data transmitted with the data fields to its own playback capabilities; and

playing back the short message in visual and/or acoustical form.