Method for the transmission of data

• US 20040249864A1
• Filed: 02/09/2004
• Published: 12/09/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rainey Circuit LLC (IP Edge LLC)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Trauberg, Markus, Schmidt, Andreas, Laumen, Josef
• Granted Patent: US 8,131,824 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/200
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/12 Application layer protocols, e.g. WAP [Wireless Application Protocol]

Abstract

The invention aims at providing a method, a subscriber terminal, a computer program product and a communication system, wherein a sender has the possibility of influencing the signaling signal in a terminal of a recipient and configuring individually and with greater freedom a signaling signal by choosing one or more data formats that can be sent in an MM standard, particularly when transmitting an MM. According to the invention, this is achieved in that an element causing immediate display of said element is identified as a signaling signal (S) when the data and/or a predetermined partial amount of data have arrived.

Claims

1. Method for transmitting data in a communication system, in particularly for transmitting text and/or image data with or without sound, whereby a quantity of data to be transmitted is made up of individual elements, each of which is coded according to the same or different standards,

characterized in that

an element is identified for the purposes of initiating immediate display of this element on arrival of the data and/or a predefined subset of data as a signaling signal (S).

2. Method according to claim 1,

characterized in that

the at least one element is identified as a signaling element (S) by a sender.

3. Method according to one of the two preceding claims,

characterized in that

the data is transmitted as a multimedia message (MM) in a multimedia message service (MMS).

4. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

an additional header field is created for identification purposes.

5. Method according to the preceding claim,

characterized in that

the field name is coded and/or the field value is coded.

6. Method according to one of the two preceding claims,

characterized in that

a new header field is inserted into the WAP messages M-Send.req, M-Notification.ind and/or M-Retrieve.conf with the designation X-Mms-Signaling-Element.

7. Method according to the preceding claim,

characterized in that

the header field X-Mms-Signaling-Element is coded as 0x87 and/or the value of the header field X-Mms-Signaling-Element is coded as a text string.

8. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

a parameter set in the header field of the WAP messages M-Send.req, M-Notification.ind and/or M-Retrieve.conf with the designation X-Mms-Content-ID is extended to include an additional parameter with the designation signaling element, by means of which at least one multimedia component of an MM is identified as a signaling signal (S).

9. Method according to the preceding claim,

characterized in that

an additional header field in WAP is coded as follows:

Coding of the field name X-Mms-Content_ID as 0x19 and/or

Coding of the field value of X-Mms-Content_ID as a text string with designation of at least one element of the MM.

10. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

an MMS service provider of the recipient finds out by evaluating the header fields whether each MM present contains an MM element that is identified as a signaling signal (S).

11. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

transcoding and/or conversion of this MM element is initiated, in order to produce a signaling signal (S) in particular as tailored to a receiving device.

12. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

a multimedia component of an MM as a signaling signal (S) is identified as being resistant to any transcoding and/or conversion of medium type and/or medium format.

13. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

a multimedia component of an MM identified by the sender as a signaling signal (S) replaces the signaling signal preset by a recipient in the receiving device.

14. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

on discovery of a notification that indicates that an MM element is identified as a signaling signal (S) within an MM awaiting download, the immediate and/or preferred download of a corresponding MM element is initiated, in order thereby to inform the recipient about the MM waiting in the MMS Relay/Server.

15. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

an MM with a multimedia signaling signal (S) is first inserted before an incoming call in order to signal an incoming call and/or incoming multimedia data.

16. Method according to the preceding claim,

characterized in that

the signaling signal (S) is extracted and/or prepared from an MM by a receiving MMS User Agent B, a sender-side and/or receive-side MMS Relay/Server.

17. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

the signaling signal (S) accesses elements which are either permanently preinstalled in the recipient'"'"'s equipment or are already available or stored as a result of a previous transmission so that only modifications and/or changes to these elements are transmitted.

18. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

identification is coded in the data that is sent from a sending MMS User Agent to an MMS Relay/Server to send the MM.

19. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

identification is coded in the data that is sent from an MMS Relay/Server to a receiving MMS User Agent to notify the receiving User Agent of the presence of new data (MM).

20. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

identification is coded in the data that is sent from an MMS Relay/Server to a receiving MMS User Agent to deliver the MM.

21. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

an identified element of an MM is preferably transmitted to the receiving User Agent.

22. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

a predefined information element of a data element or signaling signal (S) to be opened on arrival is used to assist with the decision whether the MM should be transmitted immediately, preferably and/or completely to the User Agent.

23. Method according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

the data is transmitted to a mobile subscriber terminal, in particular a WAP-capable mobile telephone.

24. Subscriber terminal for transmitting and/or displaying data in the form of text and/or image data with or without sound that is coded as elements of a set of data to be transmitted according to the same or different standards,

characterized in that

the subscriber terminal is configured to implement a method according to one of the preceding claims.

25. Subscriber terminal according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

it is configured as a mobile telephone, in particular according to the UMTS standard.

27. Computer program product according to the preceding claim,

characterized in that

it implements a method according to one of claims 1 to 23 during data dispatch in a mobile radio network.

28. Communication system,

characterized in that

at least one component of the communication system operates according to a method as set out in claims 1 to 23 and/or comprises a subscriber terminal according to one of claims 24 to 25 and/or contains a computer program product according to one of claims 26 to 27.

26. Computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium on which a program is stored that allows a data processing unit or a computer, once it has been loaded into the storage unit of the computer, to identify an element in the data to be transmitted as defined by a sender within a data transmission in a communication system and in particular a mobile radio network, in order to initiate the appearance of a signaling signal (S) based on this identified element on arrival of the data or part of the data at the recipient.