Method for implementing a push service

• US 7,813,745 B2
• Filed: 04/07/2006
• Issued: 10/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Li, Ronggao
• Primary Examiner(s): Addy; Anthony S.
• Application Number:
  US10/586,230
• Publication Number:
  US 20080233979A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,649 Days
• Field of Search: 455/412.1, 455/412.2, 455/413, 455/414.1, 455/414.2, 455/414.3, 455/466, 455/560, 370473-476, 370/389, 370/394, 370/401, 370/471, 709/204, 709/206, 709/217, 709/218, 709/230
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1859 adapted to provide push services, e.g. data channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/189 in combination with wireless systems selective distribution or broadcast in wireless communication networks H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• 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 88/184 Messaging devices, e.g. message centre
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/02 Inter-networking arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/24 between backbone network devices

Abstract

This invention provides a method for implementing a Push service, which is used to solve the problems of low delivery success rate and relatively long time delay. The method includes the following steps: a Push Initiator (PI) submitting a Push message to a Push Proxy Gateway (PPG); the PPG sending the Push message to a Short Message Service Center (SMSC); the SMSC segmenting the Push message according to the Push content to obtain a group of short messages, and scheduling the group of short messages in a transaction mode and delivering them to a mobile station; after receiving the group of the short messages, the mobile station recombining them to show the Push message. This invention can improve the delivery success rate of a Push message.

Claims

1. A method for implementing a Push service, the method comprising:

a Push Initiator sending a Push message to a Short Message Service Center through a Push Proxy Gateway (PPG);

the Short Message Service Center segmenting the Push message to obtain a group of short messages, and scheduling the group of short messages in a transaction mode and delivering them to a mobile station, wherein said transaction mode refers to continuously sending in a predetermined time a group of short messages obtained by segmenting, and resending one or more one of the messages when they are sent unsuccessfully;

wherein the group of short messages are recombined by the mobile station after being received by the mobile station, and if all the short messages of the group obtained by segmenting are sent to the mobile station successfully in a predetermined time, the Short Message Service Center (SMSC) returns only a single Acknowledgement Message, which is prepared by the SMSC in response to receiving a submission of the Push message from the PPG, to the PPG to inform the PPG that the Push message has been sent to the mobile station successfully, and the PPG sends a Result Notify Message to the Push Initiator according to the Acknowledgement Message;

if any one of the short messages of the group obtained by segmenting is sent unsuccessfully in a predetermined time, the Short Message Service Center returns only a single Submission Failure Message, which is prepared by the SMSC in response to receiving the submission of the Push message from the PPG, to the PPG to inform the PPG that the Push message has not been sent to the mobile station successfully, and the PPG sends a Result Notify Message to the Push Initiator according to the Submission Failure Message; and

wherein after sending the Push message to the Short Message Service Center, the PPG suspends the present transaction to wait for the processing result thereof from the Short Message Service Center and continues to process the next transaction.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said Short Message Service Center is specially used to bear a Push service.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said SMSC is arranged separately or integrated in a WAP Gateway.