US 2014/0179360 A1Published application

Short message service validation engine

AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

InventorsJeffrey A. Jackson, Mark D. Carney, George G. Baumbach, Martin W. McKee

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Abstract

A method, performed by a computer device, may include receiving a Short Message Service (SMS) message. The method may further include analyzing one or more sender parameters associated with the received SMS message to validate the one or more sender parameters; determining whether the one or more sender parameters have been validated based on the analysis; rejecting the SMS message in response to determining that the one or more sender parameters have not been validated; analyzing message content included in the SMS message to validate the message content; determining whether the message content has been validated based on the analysis; rejecting the SMS message in response to determining that the message content has not been validated; and forwarding the SMS message to a recipient, in response to validating the one or more sender parameters and in response to validating the message content.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method, performed by a computer device, the method comprising:

receiving, by the computer device, a Short Message Service message;
analyzing, by the computer device, one or more sender parameters associated with the received Short Message Service message to validate the one or more sender parameters;
determining, by the computer device, whether the one or more sender parameters have been validated based on the analysis;
rejecting, by the computer device, the Short Message Service message in response to determining that the one or more sender parameters have not been validated;
analyzing, by the computer device, message content included in the Short Message Service message to validate the message content;
determining, by the computer device, whether the message content has been validated based on the analysis;
rejecting, by the computer device, the Short Message Service message in response to determining that the message content has not been validated;
and
forwarding, by the computer device, the Short Message Service message to a recipient, in response to validating the one or more sender parameters and in response to validating the message content.

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A computer device comprising:

logic configured to:
receive a Short Message Service message;
analyze one or more sender parameters associated with the received Short Message Service message to validate the one or more sender parameters;
determine whether the one or more sender parameters have been validated based on the analysis;
reject the Short Message Service message in response to determining that the one or more sender parameters have not been validated;
analyze message content included in the Short Message Service message to validate the message content;
determine whether the message content has been validated based on the analysis;
reject the Short Message Service message in response to determining that the message content has not been validated;
and
forward the Short Message Service message to a recipient, in response to validating the one or more sender parameters and in response to validating the message content.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium, storing instructions executable by one or more processors, the non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising:

one or more instructions to receive a Short Message Service message;
one or more instructions to analyze one or more sender parameters associated with the received Short Message Service message to validate the one or more sender parameters;
one or more instructions to determine whether the one or more sender parameters have been validated based on the analysis;
one or more instructions to reject the Short Message Service message in response to determining that the one or more sender parameters have not been validated;
one or more instructions to analyze message content included in the Short Message Service message to validate the message content;
one or more instructions to determine whether the message content has been validated based on the analysis;
one or more instructions to reject the Short Message Service message in response to determining that the message content has not been validated;
one or more instructions to retrieve a Uniform Resource Identifier from the Short Message Service message;
one or more instructions to access content using the Uniform Resource Identifier;
one or more instructions to perform behavior analysis on the accessed content in a virtual analysis space;
one or more instructions to determine whether the Uniform Resource Identifier has been validated based on the behavior analysis;
one or more instructions to reject the Short Message Service message in response to determining that Uniform Resource Identifier has not been validated;
and
one or more instructions to forward the Short Message Service message to a recipient, in response to validating the one or more sender parameters, in response to validating the message content, and in response to validating the Uniform Resource Identifier.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/723,966Filed 21 Dec 2012
Published: 26 Jun 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04W 4/14
Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements: short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
H04W 12/12
Security arrangements; Authentication; Protecting privacy or anonymity: detection or prevention of fraud
H04W 12/128
Detection or prevention of fraud: anti-malware arrangements, e.g. protection against SMS fraud or mobile malware
H04L 63/14
Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security: for detecting or protecting against malicious traffic