IMS and MMS Interworking

• US 20160330598A1
• Filed: 07/20/2016
• Published: 11/10/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Pandey, Vinod, Stafford, Matthew W., Schlieber, Karl
• Granted Patent: US 10,149,124 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/146 Markers for unambiguous identification of a particular session, e.g. session cookie or URL-encoding
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/57 for integrated multimedia messaging subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 17/00 Prepayment of wireline communication systems, wireless communication systems or telephone systems using a coded card to authorise calls from a telephone set H04M1/675
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/2218 Call detail recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/06 Registration at serving network Location Register, VLR or user mobility server
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/10 adapted for application session management, e.g. SIP [Session Initiation Protocol] connection management H04W76/00; arrangements for session management H04L67/14

Abstract

Providing a multimedia message service (MMS) in an Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) network is described herein. A method can include establishing a first session initiation protocol (SIP) session between a source IMS device and a next generation multimedia message service center (NG MMSC), encapsulating, at the source IMS device, an MMS message in a message session relay protocol (MSRP) message, transmitting the MSRP message from the IMS device to the NG MMSC; and storing the MMS message at the NG MMSC for further delivery to the destination device. Proving the multimedia message service can further include transmitting the MMS message to a destination legacy device via legacy MMS protocols or transmitting the MMS message to a destination IMS device via MSRP. Furthermore, providing the multimedia message service can include receiving a legacy MMS message and delivering the MMS message to a destination IMS device via MSRP.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

storing, by a device comprising a processor, a multimedia message service message until determining whether a destination device has been registered with a subscriber device; and

in response to the determining indicating that the destination device has been registered with the subscriber device, sending, by the device, a short message service message directed to a destination device, wherein the short message service message comprises a uniform resource locator link for retrieval of the multimedia message service message.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the sending comprises:

establishing, by the device, a session initiation protocol session between the device and the destination device;

including, by the device, the short message service message in a session initiation protocol message; and

sending, by the device via the session initiation protocol session, the session initiation protocol message directed to the destination device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to the determining indicating that the destination device is an Internet protocol multimedia subsystem based device, sending the multimedia message service message directed to the Internet protocol multimedia subsystem based device utilizing a message session relay protocol.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the sending comprises:

determining, by the device, whether the destination device is associated with a pre-paid billing account before the sending of the short message service message.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining indicating that the destination device has been registered comprises:

determining whether the destination device corresponds to a registered subscriber identity.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

generating, by the device, a call record; and

sending, by the device, the call record directed to a billing system.

7. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

storing a multimedia message service message until a determination has been made as to whether a destination device has been registered with a subscriber device; and

in response to the determination indicating that the destination device has been registered with the subscriber device, sending a short message service message directed to the destination device for retrieval, based on a uniform resource locator link, of the multimedia message service message.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise:

establishing a session initiation protocol session with the destination device;

encapsulating the short message service message in a session initiation protocol message; and

sending, via the session initiation protocol session, the session initiation protocol message directed to the destination device.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to determining that the destination device is an Internet protocol multimedia subsystem device, sending the multimedia message service message directed to the Internet protocol multimedia subsystem device using a message session relay protocol.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining whether the destination device is associated with a pre-paid billing account.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the determination indicating that the destination device has been registered with the subscriber device comprises a determination that the destination device corresponds to a registered subscriber identity.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise:

generating a call record; and

sending the call record directed to a billing system.

13. The system of claim 7, wherein the protocol is a diameter protocol.

14. A machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

storing a multimedia message service message, pending registration of a destination device, in a subscriber service device; and

in response to determining that the registration of the destination device has occurred, sending a text message comprising a uniform resource locator link for retrieval of the multimedia message service message directed to the destination device.

15. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

querying a data store of pre-paid account information to determine whether the destination device is associated with a pre-paid billing account.

16. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the subscriber service device comprises a home subscriber server device.

17. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

generating a call record; and

sending the call record to a billing system for billing a subscriber account corresponding to the destination device.

18. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

initiating a session initiation protocol session with the destination device in response to the destination device being determined to communicate via a message session relay protocol.

19. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the sending comprises sending the text message based on a diameter protocol.

20. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the sending comprises:

determining whether the destination device is associated with a pre-paid billing account before the sending of the text message.