Patent ID: 6987980

Claim:
A transmission frame ( 1 ) for transmitting short messages ( 5 ) in a telecommunications network ( 10 ) in the form of a radiotelecommunications network, comprising: at least two data fields ( 15 , 20 , 25 , 30 ), wherein data of a short message ( 5 ) are stored in memory in the data fields ( 15 , 20 , 25 , 30 ), and wherein data in a first data format are stored in a first data field ( 15 ) of the short message ( 5 ), and data in a second data format, different from the first data format, are stored in a second data field ( 20 ) of the short message ( 5 ), wherein a first ID code ( 35 ), which identifies the makeup of the short message ( 5 ), is provided in the first date field ( 15 ), wherein the first ID code ( 35 ) includes indications about the number of data fields ( 15 , 20 , 25 , 30 ) and/or about the data formats in the data fields ( 15 , 20 , 25 , 30 ), and/or about the size of the data fields ( 15 , 20 , 25 , 30 ), wherein in each of at least two data fields ( 15 , 20 . 25 , 30 ), one data-field-specific ID code, which identifies the makeup and for content of the corresponding data field ( 15 , 20 , 25 , 30 ), per data field is provided.