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US 8,621,023 B2Granted
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.
Claims10
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 stored in a restricted address library, wherein the step of determining if the address of the originating communication device is a restricted address is performed with a first processor of the computer system;
- prohibiting, with the first processor, delivery of the message to the destination communication device if the address of the originating communication device is a restricted address;
- transmitting the message to a second processor of the computer system, if the address of the originating communication device is not a restricted address;
- searching, with the second processor, the content of the message for one or more pre-determined words, wherein the step of searching the content of the message for one or more pre-determined words is performed with a the second processor which is physically separate from the first processor and in communication with the first processor over a network;
- routing the message from the second processor to a monitoring communication device in real-time, if at least one or more pre-determined words is identified in the message;
- receiving, at the second processor, instructions from the monitoring communication device to allow or prohibit delivery of the message to the destination communication device;
- in response to receiving instructions to allow delivery of the message, re-routing the message from the monitoring communication device to the second processor;
- and
- forwarding, the message from the second processor to the first processor for delivery of the message to the destination communication device;
- and
- in response to receiving instructions to prohibit delivery of the message, re-routing the message from the monitoring communication device to the second processor;
- prohibiting delivery of the message to the destination communication device;
- and
- storing the message in a message library associated with the second processor.
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A computer system for filtering short message service messages, the computer system comprising:
- a first processor;
- a second processor;
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- a non-transitory computer readable medium in communication with the first and second processors, the computer readable medium having encoded thereon a set of instructions that upon execution by the first and second processors cause the computer system to perform operations in 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 stored in a restricted address library, wherein the instructions for determining if the address of the originating communication device is a restricted address are executed with a first processor of the computer system;
- instructions for prohibiting, delivery of the message to the destination communication device if the address of the originating communication device is a restricted address;
- instructions for transmitting the message to a second processor, if the address of the originating communication device is not a restricted address;
- instructions for searching, the content of the message for one or more pre-determined words, wherein the instructions for searching the content of the message for one or more pre-determined words are executed with the second processor which is physically separate from the first processor and in communication with the first processor over a network;
- instructions for routing the message from the second processor to a monitoring communication device in real-time, if at least one or more pre-determined words is identified in the message;
- instructions for receiving instructions at the second processor from the monitoring communication device to allow delivery or prohibit delivery of the message to the destination communication device;
- in response to receiving instructions to allow delivery of the message, re-routing the message from the monitoring communication device to the second processor;
- and
- forwarding, the message from the second processor to the first processor for delivery of the message to the destination communication device;
- and
- in response to receiving instructions to prohibit delivery of the message, re-routing the message from the monitoring communication device to the second processor;
- prohibiting delivery of the message to the destination communication device;
- and
- storing the message in a message library associated with the second processor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.