Determining an international destination address

• US 20050055461A1
• Filed: 10/26/2004
• Published: 03/10/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Syniverse ICX LLC
• Original Assignee: Syniverse ICX Corp. (Syniverse Corp.)
• Inventors: Reddy, Rajesh Tanamala Srivivas, Murthy, Vikas Sanathana, Shetty, Mony
• Granted Patent: US 7,774,502 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/245
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4547 for personal communications, i.e. using a personal identifier
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context

Abstract

A valid destination address is determined. An availability request is sent to each destination address from a set of destination addresses. The destination addresses are correlated with a destination party. At least one response to the sent availability requests is received. Each received response is uniquely associated with its own destination address from the destination addresses. Each received response indicates either a valid destination address or an invalid destination address. For each received response, a value associated with the destination address that is associated with that received response is recorded. The value indicates either a valid destination address or an invalid destination address based on the received response associated with that destination address.

Claims

1-43. -43. (canceled)

44. :

A method for determining an international destination address, comprising;

receiving text message having a requested address without a network identifier, the requested address being associated with a destination party at a destination network different from a source network;

automatically determining a proper destination address based on the requested address, the destination address including a network identifier and a device identifier; and

sending the text message to the determined destination address.

45. :

The method of claim 44, wherein the destination address further includes a carrier identifier and a gateway identifier.

46. :

The method of claim 45, wherein the destination address further includes a plurality of device-capability identifiers.

47. :

The method of claim 44, wherein said automatically determining the proper destination address further includes the following;

determining a carrier type based on a requested address associated with a destination party;

determining, when the determined carrier type is a single-match carrier type, a destination address associated with the destination party and being a valid destination address; and

validating, when the determined carrier type is a multiple-match carrier type, a plurality of candidate destination addresses associated with the destination party.

48. :

The method of claim 44, wherein;

said sending the text message includes sending the text message to the proper destination address from the plurality of candidate destination addresses that are validated by said validating.

49. :

The method of claim 44, wherein said validating includes the following;

sending an availability request to each candidate destination address from a plurality of candidate destination addresses, the plurality of candidate destination addresses being correlated with a destination party;

receiving at least one response to the sent availability requests, each received response being uniquely associated with its own candidate destination address from the plurality of candidate destination addresses, each received response indicating one from the group of a valid destination address and an invalid destination address; and

recording, for each received response, a value associated with the candidate destination address associated with that received response, the value indicating one from the group of a valid destination address and an invalid destination address based on the received response associated with that candidate destination address.

50-54. -54. (canceled)