Method for transmitting short messages

• US 7,894,832 B1
• Filed: 06/14/1999
• Issued: 02/22/2011
• 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, Kowalewski, Frank, Fischer, Ralf, Hans, Martin, Schmidt, Gunnar
• Primary Examiner(s): Eng; George
• Assistant Examiner(s): Torres; Marcos L
• Application Number:
  US09/857,675
• Time in Patent Office: 4,271 Days
• Field of Search: 4554141-4143, 455/466, 455/566, 455418-419, 370/349, 370/471, 370/473
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• 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 88/184 Messaging devices, e.g. message centre

Abstract

A method for transmitting short messages (5) in a telecommunications network (10) is proposed, which enables especially simple, convenient downloading of data fields (15, 20, 25, 30) of the short message (5) from a network operator (70). A notice is sent to a subscriber (60) of the telecommunications network (10) as a function of a short message (5) transmitted to the telecommunications network (10) for the subscriber (60). With the notice, data that include items of information about the makeup and/or content of the short message (5) are transmitted to the subscriber (60).

Claims

1. A method for transmitting short messages in a radio telecommunications network, comprising the steps of sending a short message to a central station of a telecommunications network, the short message being addressed to a subscriber of the telecommunications network;

sending a notification message from the central station to the addressed subscriber of said telecommunications network as function of said short message transmitted to the central station;

transmitting to the subscriber with the notification message, data that includes items of information about a makeup and/or content of the short message;

wherein the notification message is not the short message;

transmitting with the notification message to the subscriber a first item of header information; and

transmitting to the subscriber a second item of header information, the first item of header information including an item of information about a presence of the second item of header information, and the second item of header information including at least one item of information about a type of evaluation of the notification message to be performed.

2. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising sending to the subscriber a message that includes items of information about presence of the short message transmitted to the telecommunications network.

3. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising transmitting to the subscriber the notification message only after a request signal has been output by the subscriber to the telecommunications network.

4. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising providing the first data field of the short message as a text-based data field.

5. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising transmitting to the subscriber the items of information about the makeup of the short message, indications about the number of data fields of the short message and/or about data formats in the data fields, and/or about a size of the data fields.

6. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising transmitting to the subscriber the items of information about the content of the short message, indications about the presence of various data types and the short message in various data fields of the short message.

7. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising transmitting to the subscriber the items of information about the makeup and/or content of the short message, indications about the sender of the data stored in memory of the short message.

8. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising reading out at the subscriber the items of information about the makeup and/or content of the short message from a notification message received and shown on a display device.

9. A method as defined in claim 8;

and further comprising showing the items of information about the makeup and/or content of the short message on the data field in menu-controlled fashion, corresponding menu structures being generated at the subscriber as a function of the read-out information about the makeup and/or content of the short message.

10. A method as defined in claim 8;

and further comprising showing the items of information about the make and/or content of the short message on the display device by means of a directory structure from which at least a part of the short message can be selected for processing.

11. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising processing the items of information about the makeup and/or content of the short message in a subscriber station of the subscriber.

12. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising transmitting the items of information about the makeup and/or content of the short message for processing to an identity module of the subscriber, issued by a network operator or service provider.

13. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising transmitting with the notification message to the subscriber a first item of header information and a message, the first item header information including at least one item of information about the content of the message, the message including the item of information about the makeup and/or content of the short message.

14. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising transmitting to the communication network the short message as a message from an electronic mail surface as an Internet Email message.

15. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising transmitting the notification message to the subscriber in form of a short message surface by global system for mobile communications standard.

16. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising transmitting the short message to the telecommunications network by a sender, which is a mobile sending station, from a central station which is a network operator.

17. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising transmitting from the central station to the telecommunications network an acknowledgment message for the sender, once the short message has been received from the central station.

18. A method as defined in claim 17;

and further comprising transmitting the acknowledgment message to the telecommunications network in form of a short message for the sender and sending a notification message to the sender as a function of the acknowledgment message, and with the notification message transmitting to the sender data that include items of information about the makeup and/or content of the acknowledgment message.

19. A method as defined in claim 18;

and further comprising transmitting for the sender to a telecommunications network the acknowledgment message in form of a short message according to the short message service of the global system for mobile communication standard and the notification message in form of a first item of header information and/or second item of header information.

20. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising transmitting the short message from a central station which is a network operator for a receiver which is mobile receiver to the telecommunications network.

21. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising processing by a command message transmitted to the telecommunications network by the subscriber at least one data field of the short message as a function of the content of the command message.

22. A method as defined in claim 21;

and further comprising preparing the command message at the subscriber as a function of at least one user input at an input unit.

23. A method as defined in claim 21;

and further comprising preparing the command message automatically at the subscriber at the function of the items of information about the makeup and/or content of the short message.

24. A method as defined in claim 21;

and further comprising preparing the command message as a function of the power scope of a subscriber station assigned to the subscriber and/or as a function of command criteria that are specified by the subscriber.

25. A method as defined in claim 21;

and further comprising requesting by the subscriber from the telecommunications network at least one data field of the short message by means of a command message embodied as a selection message and transmitted to the telecommunications network; and

transmitting the at least one requested data field of the short message to the subscriber.

26. A method as defined in claim 25;

and further comprising transmitting at least two data fields of the short message that are requested by the subscriber by the selection message, simultaneously to the subscriber.

27. A method as defined in claim 25;

and further comprising transmitting at least two data fields of the short message that are requested by the subscriber by the selection message, chronologically separately to the subscriber.

28. A method as defined in claim 21;

and further comprising transmitting by the subscriber to the telecommunications network a command message embodied as a delete message; and

deleting at least one data field of the short message as a function of the delete message.

29. A method as defined in claim 21;

and further comprising transmitting by the transcriber to the telecommunications network a command message embodied as a forwarding message; and

forwarding at least one data field of the short message as a function of the forwarding message to a forward subscriber which is the telecommunications network.

30. A method as defined in claim 21;

and further comprising transmitting the command message to the telecommunications network in form of a short message to a central station which is a network operator; and

sending a notification message to the central station as a function of the command message; and

with the notification message transmitting to the central station data that includes items of information about the makeup and/or content of the command message.

31. A method as defined in claim 30;

and further comprising preparing the command message in the notification message directly in a subscriber station of the subscriber.

32. A method as defined in claim 30;

and further comprising preparing the command message and the notification message by an identify module of the subscriber issued by a network operator or a service provider.

33. A method as defined in claim 30;

and further comprising transmitting from the central station to the telecommunication network the command message in form of a short message service message by a global system for mobile communications standard, and the notification message which is in the form of a first item of header information and/or second item of header information and which is not the short message; and

further comprising generating from indications about the makeup and/or content of at least two data fields of the short message the items of information about the makeup and/or content of the short message; and

obtaining the indications from these data fields.

36. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising transmitting to the subscriber as the notification message, a first data field of the short message, which includes the data having the items of information about the makeup and/or the content of the short message.

34. A method for transmitting short messages in a radio telecommunications network, comprising the steps of sending a notification message to a subscriber of a telecommunications network as a function of a short message transmitted to the telecommunications network for the subscriber;

transmitting to the subscriber with the notification message, data that includes items of information about a makeup and/or a content of the short message; and

transmitting to the subscriber as the notification message that is not the short message, a first data field of the short message, which includes the data having the items of information about the makeup and/or the content of the short message;

transmitting with the notification message to the subscriber a first item of header information and a message, the first item of header information including at least one item of information about the content of the message, the message including the item of information about the makeup and/or content of the short message; and

transmitting to the subscriber a second item of header information and user data, the first item of header information including an item of information about the presence of the second item of header information, and the second item of header information including at least one item of information about the type of evaluation of the notification message to be performed.

35. A method as defined in claim 34;

and further comprising providing the second item of header information and user data as an element of the message.