US 7,257,401 B1Granted

Messaging service for communications devices

AssigneeCingular Wireless II, LLC

InventorsJasminka Dizdarevic, Simon James Richardson, Mark Wuthnow, Jessie Lee, Richard Man-keung Tam

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Abstract

Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for delivering a message to a communications device. One method migrates a subscriber's communications device to a Global System for Mobile communications network. The subscriber's communications device is migrated from a Time Division Multiple Access communications network or a Code Division Multiple Access communications network. An origination request is received from the communications device, and the origination request is for sending the message from the communications device. The origination request includes a network address. The network address is associated to a signaling point code, and the signaling point code identifies a message service center in the Global System for Mobile communications network. The origination request is routed to the message service center in the Global System for Mobile communications network, wherein the origination request is processed by the message service center.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A method, comprising the steps of:

migrating a communications device to a Global System for Mobile communications network, the communications device migrated from at least one of a Time Division Multiple Access communications network and a Code Division Multiple access communications network;
receiving an origination request from the communications device, the origination request for sending a message from the communications device, the origination request comprising a network address of a message service center serving the communications device;
receiving the message at a base station, the message proceeded by the origination request, forwarding the message to a mobile switching center and then to a Signaling Transfer Point, the Signaling Transfer Point associated with a signaling system 7 signaling point code;
locating the message service center by associating the network address to the signaling system 7 signaling point code, the signaling point code identifying the message service center in the Global System for Mobile communications network;
replacing the network address of the origination request with the signaling point code;
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routing the origination request and message to the message service center operating in the Global System for Mobile communications network, wherein the origination request is processed by the message service center.

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Facts

Application: 10/624,213Filed 22 Jul 2003 · us provisional application
Priority: 23 Jul 2002
Granted: 14 Aug 2007
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

H04W 4/12
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
H04W 88/184
Service support devices; Network management devices: messaging devices, e.g. message centre
H04W 92/02
Interfaces specially adapted for wireless communication networks: inter-networking arrangements
H04W
Wireless communication networks