Patent ID: 7330455

Claim:
A method for data transmission in wireless local area networks between a first and a second transmitting and receiving communicant comprising: implementing a first standardized data transmission rule requiring transmission and/or reception of information elements with variant element formats on electromagnetic signal paths between the transmitting and receiving communicants, wherein each information element comprises an element identification part, a length statement part and an information part, the element identification part having a permissible value range in which a first standardized value of the element identification part identifies the information element as a first information element whose information part contains parameters which relate to the data transmission of the transmitting communicant in accordance with a first data transmission rule; storing by the receiving communicant parameters for the transmitting communicant in order to set the data transmission for return to the transmitting communicant; each of the communicants as the receiver, determining the length of the information part from the length statement part on identification of a value of the element identification part outside the permissible value range, and jumping over the information part corresponding to the determined length; and at least in the case of one of the communicants, implementing in addition to the first data transmission rule a second data transmission rule expanding the permissible value range so that a second standardized value of the element identification part identifies the information element as a second information element whose information part contains parameters which relate to the data transmission of the transmitting communicant in accordance with the second data transmission rule.