US 8,078,201 B2Granted

Method and system for shunting short messages

AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

InventorsNingzhi Ma, Jiaming Ma, Chaodong Zhong, Xuan Wang

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Abstract

A method for shunting short messages in a networking includes: receiving, by an FCC (Flow Control Center), short messages forwarded from a first device, when a second device can not receive the short messages from the first device; determining a flow path of the short messages; and forwarding the short messages via the flow path. Meanwhile, according to another embodiment of the present invention, there is disclosed a system for shunting short messages. According to the solution of the embodiments of the present invention, the shunting of short messages within the networking can be achieved, and further the shunting can be performed according to the operating information of each device in the networking.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A system for shunting short messages, comprising:

a plurality of Short Message Service (SMS) systems, each of the plurality of SMS systems having a first device and a second device connected with the first device;
and
an Flow Control Center (FCC), connected with each of the plurality of first devices and the plurality of second devices, wherein
one of the first devices is configured to forward a short message to its corresponding second device without passing through the FCC;
the first device is configured to forward a short message, which originally should be sent to the second device without passing through the FCC, to the FCC if the connection between the first device and its corresponding second device is disconnected or the second device indicates busy;
the FCC is configured to receive the short message forwarded by the first device, determine a flow path of the received short message, and forward the received short message to one or more of the plurality of second devices via the determined flow path.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.