Methods and Social Media Portal Servers for Message Transmission

• US 20120117162A1
• Filed: 11/09/2010
• Published: 05/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Inventors: McAleer, David
• Application Number:
  US12/942,748
• Publication Number:
  US 20120117162A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication

Abstract

Methods and social media portal servers are provided for facilitating the exchange of messages between portal servers of telecommunications networks. When a first user creates a message destined to a second user in a second telecommunications network via a first social media portal server servicing the first telecommunications network, the message is received by the second social media portal server that services the second telecommunications network including the second user, and the second portal server detects the message originated at the first social media portal server based on an indicator comprised in the message. Then, the second portal server inserts in the message a second short code associated with the second social media portal, or replaces the existing short code with a second short code, and sends the message comprising the second short code to a messaging center for delivery to the user, thus rendering the message with the second short code routable in the second telecommunications network. Alternatively, the first social media portal can insert the second short code in the message.

Claims

1. A method for sending a message from a first social media portal server serving a first telecommunications network to a second social media portal server serving a second telecommunications network, and further to a user of the second network, the method comprising:

receiving at the second social media portal server a message;

detecting at the second social media portal server that the message originated at the first social media portal server based on an indicator comprised in the message;

inserting in the message a second short code associated with the second social media portal; and

sending the message comprising the second short code associated with the second social media portal server to a messaging center for delivery to the user;

wherein the message with the second short code associated with the second media portal server is routable in the second network.

2. The method as in claim 1, wherein the indicator comprises a FROM field of the message set to a first short code associated with the first social media portal, wherein the message with the FROM field set to the first short code associated with the first social media portal server is not routable in the second network.

3. The method as in claim 2, wherein the step of inserting a second short code int eh message comprises replacing in the FROM field of the message the first short code associated with the first social media portal server with the second short code associated with the second social media portal server.

4. The method as in claim 2, further comprising the step of creating the message at the first social media portal server, the message being destined to the user of the second network, the message comprising the FROM field set to the first short code associated with the first social media portal server.

5. The method as in claim 1, wherein the first social media portal server serves the first network in a first country and the second social media portal server serves the second network in a second country, wherein first and second social media portal servers are part of a social media portal system operated by a same network operator.

6. A method for sending a message from a first social media portal server serving a first network to a second social media portal server serving a second telecommunications network, and further to a user of the second telecommunications network, the method comprising:

creating at a first social media portal server a message destined to a user in a second telecommunications network served by a second social media portal server, the message comprising a FROM field set to a short code associated with the first media portal server;

detecting at the first social media portal server that the user is served by the second telecommunications network;

replacing in the message the first short code with a second short code associated with the second social media portal server; and

sending the message comprising the FROM field with the second short code associated with the second social media portal server to the second social media portal server for delivery to the user;

wherein the message with the second short code associated with the second media portal server is routable in the second telecommunications network.

7. The method as in claim 6, wherein the message with the FROM field with the first short code associated with the first social media portal server is not routable in the second network.

8. The method as in claim 6, wherein the first social media portal server serves the first network in a first country and the second social media portal server serves the second network in a second country, wherein first and second social media portal servers are part of a social media portal system operated by a same network operator.

9. A second social media portal server for serving a second telecommunications network, the server comprising:

a processor;

a communication interface operationally connected to the processor; and

an instructions repository comprising instructions that when executed by the processor cause the later, when receiving a message via the communication interface, to detect based on an indicator comprised in the message that the message originated at a first social media portal server, and to further insert in the message a second short code associated with the second social media portal server, and to yet further send the message comprising the second short code associated with the second social media portal server to a messaging center for delivery to a user of the second network;

wherein the message with the second short code associated with the second media portal server is routable in the second telecommunications network and first social media portal server serving a first network.

10. The second social media portal server as in claim 9, wherein the indicator comprises a FROM field of the message set to a first short code associated with the first social media portal server, wherein the message with FROM field set to the first short code associated with the first social media portal server is not routable in the second network.

11. The second social media portal server as in claim 10, wherein when the processor inserts in the message the second short code associated with the second social media portal server, the processor replaces in the FROM field of the message the first short code associated with the first social media portal with the second short code associated with the second social media portal server.

12. The second social media portal server as in claim 9, wherein the first social media portal server serves the first telecommunications network in a first country and the second social media portal server serves the second telecommunications network in a second country, wherein first and second social media portal servers are part of a social media portal system operated by a same network operator.

13. A first social media portal server serving a first network, the server comprising:

a processor;

a communication interface operationally connected to the processor; and

an instructions repository comprising instructions that when executed by the processor cause the later to create a message destined to a user in a second network served by a second social media portal server, the message comprising a FROM field set to a short code associated with the first media portal, and to further detect that the user is served by the second telecommunications network and to replace in the message the first short code with a second short code associated with the second social media portal server, the processor further sending via the communication interface the message comprising the FROM field set to the second short code associated with the second social media portal server to the second social media portal server for delivery to the user;

wherein the message with the second short code associated with the second media portal server is routable in the second network.

14. The first social media portal server as in claim 13, wherein the message with the FROM field comprising the first short code associated with the first social media portal server is not routable in the second network.

15. The first social media portal server as in claim 13, wherein the first social media portal server serves the first telecommunications network in a first country and the second social media portal server serves the second telecommunications network in a second country, wherein first and second social media portal servers are part of a social media portal system operated by a same network operator.