Patent ID: 7346362

Claim:
A method for sending a message in a telecommunication network, comprising: providing a telecommunication network having a sender entity, one or more receiver entities and intermediate entities therebetween; determining a size of a real message and comparing the size with a reference size; when the size of the real message is smaller than the reference size, sending the real message to a first receiver entity, a second receiver entity and a third receiver entity without first creating and sending a test message; when the size of the real message is larger than the reference size, creating a test message and sending the test message to the first receiver entity, the second receiver entity and to the third receiver entity, the sender entity receiving an acknowledgement from the first and second receiver entities in case of a successful delivery of the test message sent, and the sender entity sending the real message only to the first and second receiver entities from which an acknowledgement of successful delivery of the test message has been received.