Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Gigaset Communications Gmbh

Werner Goertz

Erich Kamperschroer

Thomas Becker

Guido Heling

Marco Van De Logt

Albert Ratermann

Stefan Nieder

Jan-Christoph Geiger

Stanislaus Willemsen

Peter Mros

Stefan Kruppa

Christoph Euscher

Olaf Bigalke

Frank Exeler

Andreas Winkler

Marco Lang

Thomas Schulte

Daniel Arndt

A method for execution of a function of a field device includes: selecting a function to be performed from a selection list of functions available to a process control system, and communicating the selected function to a service unit; paying a payment amount specified for the function and confirming the payment to the service unit; determining a derived time value of a service unit and an enable code, and transmitting the enable code to the process control system; forwarding the enable code to the field device; determining a derived time value of the field device, and checking the enable code using the derived time value to determine whether the enable code is generated by the service unit, and determining the function from the enable code; and executing an executable code corresponding to the function in the event the enable code is verified as being generated by the service unit.

Method for payment-based execution of a function of a field device to be performed, corresponding field device and service unit

A method is provided for transmitting notification messages for submission of multimedia messages to telecommunications devices embodied as multimedia message sinks, wherein to reduce the effort involved in transmitting notification messages and the associated administration effort in an entity sending the notification message on submission of multimedia messages to telecommunications devices embodied as multimedia message sinks independently of their multimedia capabilities, a service center responsible for sending the notification messages transmits on submission of multimedia messages in a notification message a first notification information which is preferably binary coded, and a second notification information which is preferably embodied as text information, uniformly to different variants of telecommunications devices as regards their multimedia capabilities.

Method for transmitting notification messages on submitting multimedia messages to telecommunications devices embodied as multimedia message sinks

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for releasing local data contents for an IP-based data access, wherein an evaluation unit () evaluates a first IP connection (IP-V) and extracts an IP destination address (IP:B) and an authorisation verification generating unit () generates an authorisation verification (BN) for the data access to the local storage unit (). An authorisation message generating unit () generates an authorisation message on the basis of the authorisation verification (BN) and the extracted IP destination address (IP:B). A trigger unit () triggers a transmission process of the generated authorisation message over a second IP connection (IP-V) which is different from the first IP connection (IP-V).

Apparatus and method for releasing local data contents for IP-based data access, associated communication system, digital storage medium, computer program product and computer program

The present application discloses an apparatus, system and method for reducing the time required for transmitting a multimedia message from any sender to any addressee and thus generally cut the cost of the multimedia message service. A traffic channel connection is kept to a receiving telecommunication device, which is established by a multimedia message service center that has received a multimedia message designated by a transmitting telecommunication device for said receiving telecommunication device, for example, in order to transmit an information message to the receiving telecommunication device during an SMS session by means of which the multimedia message service center informs the receiving telecommunication device about the arrival of the multimedia message, established for at least the period of time it takes the receiving telecommunication device to evaluate the received information message and hold an MMS session for fetching the message content of the multimedia message designated for the receiving telecommunication device from the multimedia message service center.

Multimedia message center for delivering a multimedia message to a telecommunication device during an established traffic channel connection

Method and multimedia message center for delivering a multimedia message to a telecommunication device configured as a multimedia message sink, and telecommunication device for accessing multimedia messages stored in a storage location of a multimedia message service center

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