Method for sending a short message from a wireline phone
First Claim
1. A method for sending a short message from a first wireline phone to a second wireline phone comprising:
- sending an SMS (Short Message Service) message from the first wireline phone to a switch; and
sending the SMS message from the switch to the second wireline phone.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method for sending and receiving text messages using the wireline telephone network, common control switching arrangements, and commonly available equipment such as DTMF telephones and caller-ID devices. One wireline Short Message Service (SMS) application is a broadcast message system that can update parents of students who attend a school. Further applications include user-controlled lists, dynamic lists, Public Service Announcements, and news services. Call signaling methods are utilized to alert the receiving station of an incoming message and to deliver the message. Alerting options include using suppressed ringing to deliver a message without ringing the line as part of a calling name parameter during normal alerting, ISDN D-channel (out of band) message(s), or using normal ringing and sending the FSK after answer on an adjunct CPE or computer-only line. Additionally, a text message could be scheduled at a targeted date and time for delivery.
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19 Claims
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1. A method for sending a short message from a first wireline phone to a second wireline phone comprising:
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sending an SMS (Short Message Service) message from the first wireline phone to a switch; and
sending the SMS message from the switch to the second wireline phone. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for sending a short message from a wireline phone to an information provider comprising:
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sending an SMS (Short Message Service) message from the wireline phone to a switch;
sending the SMS message from the switch to the information provider; and
sending near real-time filtered information from the information provider to the wireless phone.
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8. A method for sending a message from a first wireline phone to a wireline SMS group, the wireline SMS group comprising a plurality of wireline phones, the method comprising:
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sending a group SMS message for the wireline SMS group from the first wireline phone to a switch; and
sending the group SMS message from the switch to each of the plurality of wireline phones that are members of the wireline SMS group. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method for sending a message from a first wireline phone to a wireline SMS group, the wireline SMS group comprising a plurality of wireline phones, the method comprising:
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sending a group SMS message for the wireline SMS group from the first wireline phone to a gatekeeper database;
determining at the gatekeeper database the directory number of each of the phones in the wireline SMS group; and
sending the group SMS message from the gatekeeper database to the phones in the wireline SMS group. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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