Patent ID: 7586870

Claim:
A method for processing a short message in a radio telecommunications network, including the steps of at a subscriber station: receiving a notification of a storage of a short message stored in said network, wherein data of the short message are stored in a transmission frame having at least two data fields, wherein data in the first data format are stored in a first data field and data in a second data format, different from the first data format, are stored in a second data field and wherein a first ID code, which identifies a makeup of the short message, is provided in the first data field; requesting the transmission of the first data field; receiving said first data field including said first ID code; evaluating the second data format based on a the first ID code; deciding whether the data stored in the second data are to be downloaded from the network on said evaluating; in the event that said second data are to be downloaded, receiving said second data field; and playing back the short message in visual and/or acoustical form.