A method for the reception and preprocessing of digital messages, with a view to their use by a handling processor. The method associates a tag identifying each message capable of being received with a descriptor of preprocessing operations to be applied to the message. The tag of certain messages is...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US6519655?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6519655 - Message preprocessing operations indicated by an associated descriptor read and descriptors belonging to a category of preprocessing descriptors and a category of instruction descriptors