US 10,855,589 B2 · Message routing to devices with non-routable addresses

Abstract

The disclosed system provides for machine-to-machine routing of messages (e.g., text messages, binary information, etc.) between devices (e.g., external applications, IoT devices, etc.) using non-routable identifiers. The systems and methods publish an application programming interface (API) configured to receive (non-routable) identification information of a target device from an external application (e.g., an IoT Service Provider) that calls the API, determines whether a target device associated with the identification information is a subscriber of a telecommunications service provider that provides telecommunications plans to subscribers of the telecommunications service provider, verifies that the external application is authorized to transmit messages to the target device, and translates the non-routable identification information to a mapped device address that can be used to determine a location of the target device so that the message can be delivered to the target device.

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Dependent claims

At least one non-transitory, computer-readable medium carrying instructions, which when executed within a node of a mobile telecommunications network, performs operations to route messages to a target device, the operations comprising:

receiving, from a message originator that calls an application programming interface (API), an incoming message to be delivered to the target device,
wherein the incoming message comprises a destination address of the target device that is not routable on the mobile telecommunications network;
based on the received message and the called API, identifying a set of profiles associated with the target device using the non-routable destination address of the target device,
wherein the set of profiles associated with the target device comprises a currently active profile;
translating the non-routable destination address of the target device to a mapped device address associated with the currently active profile of the target device;
determining a location identifier of the target device based on the mapped device address;
and
routing the incoming message to the target device using the determined location identifier of the target device.

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A computer-implemented method in a mobile telecommunications network to route machine-to-machine type messages to a target device, the method comprising:

receiving, from a message originator that calls an application programming interface (API), an incoming message to be delivered to the target device,
wherein the incoming message comprises a destination address of the target device that is not routable on the mobile telecommunications network;
based on the received message and the called API, identifying a set of profiles associated with the target device using the non-routable destination address of the target device,
wherein the set of profiles associated with the target device comprises a currently active profile;
translating the non-routable destination address of the target device to a mapped device address associated with the currently active profile of the target device;
determining a location identifier of the target device based on the mapped device address;
and
routing the incoming message to the target device using the determined location identifier of the target device.

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A system for routing messages to a target device, the system comprising:

at least one hardware processor;
and
at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to the at least one hardware processor and storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one hardware processor, cause a message routing platform to:
receive an incoming message to be delivered to the target device,
wherein the incoming message comprises a destination address of the target device that is not routable on a mobile telecommunications network;
based at least in part on the received message, identifying a set of profiles associated with the target device using the non-routable destination address of the target device;
translating the non-routable destination address of the target device to a mapped device address associated with at least one currently active profile of the target device;
determining a location identifier of the target device based on the mapped device address;
and
routing the incoming message to the target device using the determined location identifier of the target device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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