Patent ID: 8060548

Claim:
A method for creating a short message for the transmission of information embedded in a data vector, the data vector consisting of data points wherein each point has a value and a position, and the short message having the form M=[V 1 ,V 2 , . . . ,V N ,P 1 ,P 2 , . . . ,P N ,BG ,Var], where V 1 , V 2 , . . . , V N are values of N peaks, P 1 , P 2 , . . . , P N , are their corresponding positions in the data vector, BG and Var are indications of background level and variability of the data point values contained in the data vector, the method includes the following steps: a) determining a maximum number of peaks N to be included in the short message M, a minimum position separation for the peaks in the short message, and indications of the background level and variability of the data point values contained in the data vector; b) selecting a largest peak in said data vector, and adding the value and corresponding position of the selected peak to the short message M; c) selecting a next largest peak if its position is greater than the minimum position separation from each of said previously selected peaks, then adding the value and position of the selected next largest peak the short message M; d) repeating step c) until the said maximum number of peaks N has been selected or the list of peaks in said data vector in descending order has been exhausted; and e) transmitting the short message.