Interconnect system and method for multiple protocol short message services
AssigneeCellemetry, LLC
InventorsEdward Comer, Jere Sandidge
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Abstract
A customer central location (CCL) communicates with multiple remote wireless devices employing mutually incompatible data formats or short message service (SMS) protocols. A communication, from the CCL to a remote device or from a remote device to the CCL, passes through a short message arbitrator (SMA), which determines the identifying characteristic(s) of the device receiving the communication. From the identifying characteristic(s), the short message arbitrator determines the expected data format and the transmission path to the device. The SMA converts the communication into the expected data format and transmits the communication over the appropriate transmission path.
Claims15
1-19. (canceled)
A system for interconnecting a plurality of data communication devices, the system comprising:
- a first data communication path for receiving a transmission from a first data communication device;
- an arbitrator operative to automatically:
- determine, from the transmission, an identity of a second data communication device,
- determine, from the identity of the second data communication device, a selected data format from a group of at least three data formats, the selected data format being expected by the second data communication device, and
- convert the transmission into the selected data format determined from the identity of the second data communications device;
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- a second data communication path for transmitting the transmission converted by the arbitrator to the second data communication device.
A system for managing communication among a plurality of data communication devices, the system comprising:
- a first data communication device for dispatching a first data transmission using a first wireless access method;
- a second data communication device for dispatching a second data transmission using a second wireless access method distinct from the first wireless access method;
- a third data communication device for receiving the second data transmission from the second data communication device;
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- an arbitrator for:
- receiving the first data transmission from the first data communication device,
- determining, from the first data transmission, an identity of the third data communication device to receive the first data transmission,
- determining a data format from at least three potential data formats, the data format being expected by the third data communication device for the first data transmission,
- converting the first data transmission to the data format expected by the third data communication device, and
- transmitting the converted first data transmission to the third data communication device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.