Patent ID: 8081587

Claim:
A method for transmitting user data messages from a network element of a radio communication system over at least one transmission channel to at least one subscriber device of the radio communication system, the method comprising: the network element transmitting at least one planning message to the at least one subscriber device to announce the form of the user data messages to be transmitted via one or more transmission channels subsequently to and separately from the at least one planning message; wherein the form of the user data messages announced by the at least one planning message includes at least one of a type of content of the user data messages and a coding of the user data messages, and at least one subscriber device analyzing the form of the user data messages announced by the at least one planning message transmitted from the network element to determine whether or not that subscriber device is technically capable of processing the user data messages, and based on the analysis of the form of the user data messages announced by the at least one planning message, selecting whether or not to receive the user data messages at that subscriber device, wherein selecting to receive the user data messages at the subscriber device comprises the subscriber device reading or monitoring the user data messages from the one or more transmission channels in which the user data messages are transmitted, and selecting not to receive the user data messages at the subscriber device comprises the subscriber device neither reading nor monitoring the user data messages from the one or more transmission channels in which the user data messages are transmitted.