Patent ID: 6108530
Filing Date: 2000-08-22
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A system capable of transmitting a displayable message to a terminating short message entity in more than one data package over a conveying network, the system comprising:a capacity determiner that determines a capacity of the conveying network for transmitting data;a fragmenter that divides the displayable message into fragments at an application protocol layer based on the capacity determined by the capacity determiner such that the size of the fragments does not exceed the capacity of the conveying network; anda packager that packages the fragments into the data packages such that the data packages are operable to be separately transmitted by a short message service over the conveying network wherein the data packages further include an indicia of the size of the displayable message and a reference parameter corresponding to the position of the fragments in the displayable message and the packager adds the indicia of the size of the displayable message and the reference parameter corresponding to the position of the fragment into the data packages.