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Method for starting a message transmission in a mobile telephone network

  • US 5,628,051 A
  • Filed: 09/15/1994
  • Issued: 05/06/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/15/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for starting a short message transmission in a mobile telephone network comprising at least one short message service centre having an identity and transmitting short messages;

  • at least one gateway mobile exchange for forwarding short messages to another network or to a short message service center;

    at least one mobile exchange forwarding short messages;

    a subscriber capable of receiving short messages; and

    a home location register having a subscriber-specific list of the identity of each said short message service centre that has transmitted a rejected short message, a subscriber-specific short message transmission starting message from the home location register activating a respective said short message service centre to transmit a respective short message to the gateway mobile exchange in order for each respective short message to be forwarded to the subscriber, and the rejected short messages being stored in a respective said short message service centre, the method comprising;

    starting a time supervision when the identity of the respective said short message service centre is included in said subscriber-specific list;

    transmitting a subscriber-specific short message transmission starting message to each said short message service centre having its identity on said subscriber-specific list when a time preset in said time supervision expires;

    deleting the identity of a respective said short message service centre to which said short message transmission starting message has been transmitted from said subscriber-specific list of said home location register, of the respective identity of each respective said short message service centre that has transmitted a rejected short message; and

    transmitting by the respective said short message service centre transmits, in response to said short message transmission starting message, a short message to said gateway mobile exchange for forwarding to said subscriber.

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