Method and system for the prevention of unwanted wireless telecommunications

• US 20050101306A1
• Filed: 11/12/2003
• Published: 05/12/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Redknee Inc.
• Original Assignee: Redknee Inc.
• Inventors: Rahim, Rubens, Meisl, Armin, Zabawskyj, Bohdan
• Granted Patent: US 7,409,203 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.100
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1079 of unsolicited session attempts, e.g. SPIT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/663 Preventing unauthorised calls to a telephone set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails

Abstract

The invention of present speaks to a method and system for the prevention of unwanted wireless telecommunications which is implemented as part of a computer program product in (preferentially) the telecommunications operator'"'"'s network, which meets and/or exceeds much of current, proposed and even academically anticipated legislative (and by necessity, technical) criteria, and indeed, thereby complies with the broader body of prima facie consumer requirements associated with wireless telecommunications spam filtering. Indeed, the invention provides for a remarkably flexible and customizable advance in the art through the utilization of a progressive filtering algorithm. This algorithm offers both the subscriber and the service provider with the capability to block and/or extract potentially harmful or unsolicited SMS, MMS and other such messages on the basis of an extensive range of parameters and rules.

Claims

1. An open architecture method and gateway system for the prevention and/or filtration of unwanted wireless telecommunications.

2. The method of claim 1, whereby the invention exists as part of a computer program product, comprising:

a) a computer readable memory medium; and

b) a computer program including the mathematic and programmatic logic required to facilitate the steps, methods and rules as such.

3. The method of claim 1, which relates to SMS, MMS, EMS and other unwanted wireless communication means which may be found in the state of the art.

4. The method of claim 1, which relates to asynchronous messages received via TCP/IP protocols including SMPP (Short Message Peer to Peer), UCP (Universal Computer Protocol), MMx (MM1, MM4, MM7) (associated with the provision of Multi-Media Service messages), SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), and POP3 (Post Office Protocol).

5. The method of claim 1, which may be applied to messages received in the form of an API (Application Programming Interface) (as prescribed by the 3GPP, 3GPP2, OMA, ETSI, and Parlay).

6. The method of claim 1, where the unwanted wireless telecommunications is filtered based on intermediating network protocols (as defined in the state of the art and amended therewith from time to time).

7. The method of claim 2, where the filtering mechanism is based on the or any combination of, source address, destination address, network element address, protocol id/type, data coding scheme, keyword/content search, service identifier, location or presence status of the originator and/or destination.

8. The method of claim 2, where the invention builds and/or requests a subscriber profile from its internally articulated memory or through an external entity equipped to provide the same.

9. The method of claim 8, where said profile is matched against the parameters of the filtering mechanism (as particularly articulated).

10. The method of claim 9, where the message is either rejected (blocked), copied for later viewing, or routed to the subscriber as per the mechanisms documented in the state of the art.

11. The method of claim 7, which specifically relates to and provides for the filtering of unsolicited wireless telecommunications as they relate to roaming traffic.

12. The method of claim 11, whereby an SS7 monitoring subsystem monitors and intermediates traffic associated with roaming subscribers, wherein, the messaging intermediation node of the invention would typically be located so as to intermediate traffic on SS7 links.

13. The method of claim 12, where such intermediation node examines certain address (and other) fields within the telecommunication and directs the relevant initiating network element (as SMSC for instance) to direct the actual telecommunication to the invention'"'"'s filtering logic.

14. The method of claim 13, where such telecommunication is processed and matched against the parameters of the filtering mechanism (as particularly articulated).

15. The method of claim 14, where the message is either rejected (blocked), copied for later viewing, or routed to the subscriber as per the mechanisms documented in the state of the art.

16. The method of claim 13, whereby the invention'"'"'s filtering logic shall redirect subsequent relevant messaging communication traffic to the invention.

17. The method of claim 13, which specifically relates to and provides for filtering unsolicited Mobile Terminated (MT) SMS as messages leave the SMSC as to not limit the application of the art to SMS messages which may have originated within the network and to further ensure that all foreign incoming messages are routed through articulated filter of the computer program product which implements the rules relating to such.

18. The method of claim 17, which is implemented as part of a multi-phase filtering process where messages are intercepted via SS7.

19. The method of claim 18, where the invention intercepts the routing information for Short Messages (SM) on their way to the Home Location Register (HLR).

20. The method of claim 18, where the invention intercepts Mobile Terminated Forward Short Messages (MT-FSM) on route to the MSC.

21. The method of claim 18, where such telecommunication is processed and matched against the parameters of the filtering mechanism (as particularly articulated).

22. The method of claim 21, where the message is either rejected (blocked), copied for later viewing, or routed to the subscriber as per the mechanisms documented in the state of the art.

23. An algorithm articulated with the capability to block and/or extract potentially harmful or unsolicited wireless telecommunications messages on the basis of an extensive range of parameters and rules, including the origin of the network element address (as the SMSC), the destination and/or source address of the message, the data coding scheme used in the message (as binary, hexadecimal, ascii, and so on), content or keywords within the message, the protocol or type of message (as text, multimedia, executable file, and so on), the location and/or status of the originator, destination address, the service identifier (i.e. the service type field), number of messages sent to a source address, number of messages sent from a source address, number of recipients of one message, frequency of a message sent to a destination address, and frequency of a message sent from a destination address.