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US 2013/0097268 A1Published application
Message Filtering System
AssigneeCenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
InventorShekhar Gupta
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Abstract
A message filtering system is provided including a message management unit and a message monitoring unit in communication with the message management unit. The message management unit is configured to send and receive message over a network and to route messages to the message monitoring unit based on a message source, and the message monitoring unit is configured to parse the message and locate identifiers in the message and to re-route the message based on the identifier located in the message.
Claims12
A method of filtering messages comprising:
- receiving at a computer system a short message service message sent from an originating communication device and addressed to a destination communication device;
- determining with the computer system if an address of the originating communication device is a restricted address;
- prohibiting, with the computer system, communication of the message to the destination communication device if the address of the originating communication device is a restricted address;
- searching, with the computer system, the content of the message for one or more pre-determined words;
- forwarding the message from the computer system to a monitoring communication device if a pre-determined word is identified in the message;
- receiving, at the computer system, instructions from the monitoring communication device to deliver or prohibit delivery of the message to the destination communication device;
- delivering the message from the computer system to the destination communication device upon receipt by the computer system of instructions to deliver the message;
- and
- prohibiting, with the computer system, communication of the message to the destination communication device upon receipt by the computer system of instructions to prohibit delivery of the message.
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A computer system for filtering short message service messages comprising:
- one or more processors;
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- a non-transitory computer readable medium in communication with the one or more processors, the computer readable medium having encoded thereon a set of instructions executable by the computer system to perform one or more operations, the set of instructions comprising:
- instructions for receiving a short message service message sent from an originating communication device and addressed to a destination communication device;
- instructions for determining if an address of the originating communication device is a restricted address;
- instructions for prohibiting communication of the message to the destination communication device if the address of the originating communication device is a restricted address;
- instructions for searching the content of the message for one or more pre-determined words;
- instructions for forwarding the message to a monitoring communication device if a pre-determined word is identified in the message;
- instructions for receiving instructions from the monitoring communication device to deliver or prohibit delivery of the message to the to the destination communication device;
- instructions for delivering the message to the destination communication device upon receipt of instructions to deliver the message from the monitoring communication device;
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- instructions for prohibiting communication of the message to the destination communication device upon receipt of instructions from the monitoring communication device to prohibit delivery of the message.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.