Short message service system
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsPhilippe Bazot, Jacques Cresp, Fabrice Livigni, Olivier Oudot, Richard Sert, Alain Siles, Joel Viale
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method and computer program for proving a short message service (SMS) message was sent and received. The computer-implemented method includes: designating a message type for the SMS message, wherein the message type includes a normal type and a legal type; in response to designating a legal type for the SMS message, changing a header for the SMS message, wherein the header indicates that the SMS message should be stored; storing the SMS message with a trusted authority; and sending the SMS message, from a sender, to a receiver.
Claims21
A computer-implemented method of proving a short message service (SMS) message, the method comprising:
- designating a message type for the SMS message, wherein the message type includes a normal type and a legal type;
- in response to designating a legal type for the SMS message, changing a header for the SMS message, wherein the header indicates that the SMS message should be stored;
- storing the SMS message with a trusted authority;
- and
- sending the SMS message, from a sender, to a receiver.
A system, comprising:
- a client application stored a computing device of a sender device for:
- designating a type of a SMS message, the type including a normal type and a legal type;
- and
- in response to designating a legal type for the SMS message, changing a header for the SMS message, wherein the header indicates that the SMS message should be stored;
- a trusted authority for storing the SMS message;
- and
- a SMS service center for sending the SMS message to a receiver.
A computer program comprising program code embodied in at least one computer-readable medium, which when executed, enables a computer system to prove a short message service (SMS) message, the method comprising:
- designating a message type for the SMS message, wherein the message type includes a normal type and a legal type;
- in response to designating a legal type for the SMS message, changing a header for the SMS message, wherein the header indicates that the SMS message should be stored;
- storing the SMS message with a trusted authority;
- and
- sending the SMS message, from a sender, to a receiver.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.