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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENDING SMS AND TEXT MESSAGES

  • US 20080242327A1
  • Filed: 03/28/2008
  • Published: 10/02/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2002
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A system for sending and receiving SMS messages between cellular user devices located in different wireless networks without traversing a network bridge maintained by a Short Message Service Center, said system comprising:

  • a plurality of SMS Network Boundary (SNB) devices;

    a server;

    a plurality of cellular user devices;

    each of said plurality of SNB devices further comprising a SNB cellular communications device configured to communicate within a wireless network and a SNB computer, said SNB cellular communications device and said SNB computer being configured to communicate SMS messages between said SNB cellular communications device and said SNB computer;

    a first SNB device being registered to a first wireless network, and a second SNB device being registered to a second wireless network, said first and second wireless networks being different networks;

    said server further comprising a computer having a machine readable storage, having stored thereon one or more computer programs comprising a plurality of code sections executable by a machine for maintaining a plurality of interrelated tables comprising a database, said database containing user-provided personalized information cross-referencing SMS user devices and predetermined routing and identification information for routing SMS messages to selected, identified SMS message recipients, said server being in communication with a plurality of SNB computers;

    said server being configured to receive an SMS message from said first SNB device and to route and forward said SMS message to second SNB device;

    said a plurality of cellular user devices comprising at least a first cellular user device being registered to said first wireless network and a second cellular user device being registered to said second wireless network;

    whereby an SMS message initiated at said first cellular user device may be sent to said first SNB device via said first wireless network, and said first SNB device will forward said SMS message to said server, and said server will obtain routing information and forward said SMS message to said second SNB device, and said second SNB device will forward said SMS message to said second cellular user device via said second wireless network.

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