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A system (100) that is capable of transmitting a displayable message to a short message entity (102, 104 or 105) in more than one data package over a conveying network. The system (100) uses a capacity determiner (206) to determine a capacity of the conveying network for transmitting data. Based on

A system (100) that is capable of transmitting a displayable message to a short message entity (102, 104 or 105) in more than one data package over a conveying network. The system (100) uses a capacity determiner (206) to determine a capacity of the conveying network for transmitting data. Based on this capacity of the conveying network, a fragmenter (204) divides the displayable message into fragments at an application protocol layer. The size of a fragment does not exceed the capacity of the conveying network. Finally, a packager (208) packages the fragments into data packages. The data packages are operable to be separately transmitted by a short message service over the conveying network. The data packages may include a reference parameter corresponding to the position of the fragment in the displayable message. Further, a reference parameter may indicate the total size of the displayable message being fragmented and packaged. When all of the fragments of the displayable message are received at the terminating short message entity (102, 104 or 105), a fragment retriever (304) retrieves the fragments. A message reconstructer (306) reconstructs the displayable message. The displayable message is then passed to a disposing device (308).

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1. A method for transmitting a message over a conveying network in more than one data package, the method comprising:dividing the message into fragments at an application protocol layer based on the capacity of the conveying network such that the size of the fragments does not exceed the capacity of

1. A method for transmitting a message over a conveying network in more than one data package, the method comprising:dividing the message into fragments at an application protocol layer based on the capacity of the conveying network such that the size of the fragments does not exceed the capacity of the conveying network, the capacity of the conveying network being a maximum amount of data that can be transmitted through the conveying network as a single package of data; and packaging into the data packages such that the data packages are operable to be separately transmitted by a short message service over the conveying network, data packages include a reference parameter corresponding to a number indicating the position of the fragments in the message. 2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of determining a capacity of the components of the conveying network for transmitting data.3. The method of claim 1, wherein the packaging step is performed by a packager, and the packager adds the reference parameter into the data packages.4. The method of claim 1, wherein the data packages further include one or more of the following: an indicia of the size of the message, and an indicia of the identity of the message.5. The method of claim 2, wherein each element of the information path over which the data packages are transmitted is used in determining the capacity of the conveying network.6. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of determining a capacity comprises determining one or more of the following: a number of characters in the message that are operable to be transmitted in the data packages, and a number of bits in the message that are operable to be transmitted in the data packages.7. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of determining the capacity comprises determining the capacity based on a capacity indication from a serving wireless telecommunications network in the conveying network.8. The method of claim 1, wherein:the dividing step is performed by a fragmenter; the packaging step is performed by a packager; and the fragmenter and the packager comprise a message center coupled to a serving wireless telecommunications network that transmits the message to the wireless terminal. 9. The method of claim 1, wherein:the dividing step is performed by a fragmenter; the packaging step is performed by a packager; and the fragmenter and the packager comprise a short message entity.