Method of transmitting electronic mail messages
View Patent ↗A method and a device for transmitting electronic mail messages using a mobile wireless telephone network short message service are provided. An electronic mail message is transmitted by using the at least one short message which includes a short message header portion and a short message data portion. The short message data portion includes a user data header portion having: a) an identifying data field to identify that the short message data portion includes addressing information in accordance with RFC 822, and b) a length data field identifying a length of the addressing information in accordance with RFC 822. The addressing information in accordance with RFC 822 includes data fields differentiated from one another by keywords.
1. A method of transmitting electronic mail messages using a mobile wireless telephone network short message service, comprising:
transmitting at least one short message by using the mobile wireless telephone network short message service;
preparing an electronic mail message to be transmitted by means of the at least one short message;
incorporating a short message header portion and a short message data portion in the at least one short message,
incorporating a user data header portion in the short message data portion, the user data header portion having an identifying data field and length data field, the identifying data field identifying a structure of the user data header;
indicating, via a single information element identifier of the identifying data field, that the short message data portion includes addressing, subject and identification information in accordance with RFC 822;
indicating, using the length data field, a length of the addressing information in accordance with RFC 822, wherein the addressing information in accordance with RFC 822 includes data fields differentiated from one another by keywords; and
transmitting the electronic mail message by means of the at least one short message.