Interconnect system and method for multiple protocol short message services
AssigneeCellmetry, LLC
InventorsEdward I. 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.
Claims13
A method for interconnecting a central data communication device and a plurality of remote data communication devices, wherein the remote data communication devices are associated with a plurality of wireless access methods, comprising:
- receiving a first transmission from a first remote data communication device associated with a first wireless access method;
- retrieving a first mobile identification number (MIN) for the first remote data communication device from the first transmission;
- using the first MIN to identify the central data communication device and a data format expected by the central data communication device;
- converting the first transmission so that it is compatible with the data format expected by the central data communication device;
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- transmitting the converted first transmission to the central data communication device.
A method for interconnecting a central data communication device and a plurality of remote data communication devices, wherein the remote data communication devices are associated with a plurality of wireless access methods, comprising:
- receiving a converted first transmission from an arbitrator wherein the arbitrator created the converted first transmission from an original first transmission by
- receiving the original first transmission from a first remote data communication device associated with a first wireless access method;
- retrieving a first mobile identification number (MIN) for the first remote data communication device from the original first transmission;
- using the first MIN to identify the central data communication device and a data format expected by the central data communication device;
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- converting the original first transmission so that it is compatible with the data format expected by the central data communication device.
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:
- retrieve a first mobile identification number (MIN) for the first remote data communication device;
- use the first MIN to identify a second data communication device and a data format expected by the second data communication device;
- convert the transmission into the data format expected by the second data communication device;
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- a second data communication path for transmitting the transmission converted by the arbitrator to the second data communication device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.