Method and system for wireless network-based messaging service message delivery

• US 7,889,731 B1
• Filed: 02/10/2010
• Issued: 02/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited (Nortel Networks Corporation)
• Inventors: Lohtia, Anit, Tang, Yuqiang
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Chi H
• Assistant Examiner(s): Faroul, Farah
• Application Number:
  US12/703,497
• Time in Patent Office: 370 Days
• Field of Search: 370/389, 370/392, 370/465, 370/466
• US Class Current: 370/389
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

A system and non-transitory computer storage medium storing a computer program for delivering messages to a wireless access terminal are provided. A messaging center is in communication with a 1xEV-DO network. The messaging center is arranged to receive a message having a telephone number as a destination address for delivery to the wireless access terminal. The messaging center has a storage device and a central processing unit. The storage device stores a mapping between the telephone number, a mobile static identifier corresponding to a user of the wireless access terminal and a destination address corresponding to an IP address of the wireless access terminal in the 1xEV-DO network. The central processing unit is in communication with the storage device. The mapping between the telephone number and the IP address is based on a correspondence between the telephone number and the mobile static identifier. The mapping is evaluated to determine the IP address of the wireless access terminal in the 1xEV-DO network and the message is transmitted to the wireless access terminal using the 1xEV-DO network.

Claims

1. A system for delivering messages to a wireless access terminal, the system comprising:

a messaging center in communication with a 1xEV-DO network, the messaging center arranged to receive a message having a telephone number as a destination address for delivery to the wireless access terminal, the messaging center having;

a storage device storing a mapping between the telephone number, a mobile static identifier corresponding to a user of the wireless access terminal, and an IP address of the wireless access terminal in the 1xEV-DO network, the mapping between the telephone number and the IP address being based on a correspondence between the telephone number and the mobile static identifier, the mobile static identifier including a user id and a domain; and

a central processing unit in communication with the storage device, the central processing unit being configured to;

evaluate the mapping to determine the IP address of the wireless access terminal in the 1xEV-DO network; and

transmit the message to the wireless access terminal using the 1xEV-DO network.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the IP address is dynamically assigned to the wireless access terminal as part of the establishment of a communication session between the wireless access terminal and the 1xEV-DO network, the 1xEV-DO network including an authentication device in communication with the wireless access terminal and the messaging center, the authentication device providing the dynamically assigned IP address to the messaging center for inclusion in the mapping.

3. The system messaging center according to claim 2, wherein the static identifier is formatted based on an IP protocol, and wherein a row in the mapping includes a static identifier and telephone number, the central processing unit in the messaging server being further configured to dynamically update the row to include the dynamically assigned IP address when the authentication device authenticates the wireless access terminal.

4. The system according to claim 3, further including a packet data serving node in communication with the authentication device and the wireless access terminal, the packet data serving node receiving authentication data from the authentication device using a point-to-point protocol.

5. The system according to claim 1, further including:

a network administration terminal in communication with the 1xEV-DO network, the 1xEV-DO network using an IP protocol; and

a signaling device in communication with the network administration terminal and another communication network using a first communication protocol that is different from the IP protocol, the signaling device configured to convert the first communication protocol to the IP protocol and convert the IP protocol to the first communication protocol, the network administration terminal;

including a network interface arranged for communication using the IP protocol;

being configured to configure at least one device within the other communication network and at least one device within the 1xEV-DO communication network; and

being configured to communicate with the at least one device within the 1xEV-DO communication network using the IP protocol and communicating with the at least one device within the other communication network via the signaling device.

6. A system for delivering messages to a wireless access terminal, the system comprising:

a messaging center in communication with a 1xEV-DO network, the messaging center arranged to receive a message having a telephone number as a destination address for delivery to the wireless access terminal, the messaging center having;

a storage device storing a mapping between the telephone number, a mobile static identifier corresponding to a user of the wireless access terminal, and an IP address of the wireless access terminal in the 1xEV-DO network, the mapping between the telephone number and the IP address being based on a correspondence between the telephone number and the mobile static identifier;

the mobile static identifier including a user id and a domain; and

a central processing unit in communication with the storage device, the central processing unit being configured to;

evaluate the mapping to determine the IP address of the wireless access terminal in the 1xEV-DO network; and

transmit the message to the wireless access terminal using the 1xEV-DO network.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the IP address is dynamically assigned to the wireless access terminal as part of the establishment of a communication session between the wireless access terminal and the 1xEV-DO network, the 1xEV-DO network including an authentication device in communication with the wireless access terminal and the messaging center, the authentication device providing the dynamically assigned IP address to the messaging center for inclusion in the mapping.

8. The system messaging center according to claim 7, wherein the static identifier is formatted based on an IP protocol, and wherein a row in the mapping includes a static identifier and telephone number, wherein the central processing unit in the messaging center is further configured to dynamically update the row to include the dynamically assigned IP address when the authentication device authenticates the wireless access terminal.

9. The system according to claim 8, further including a packet data serving node in communication with the authentication device and the wireless access terminal, the packet data serving node receiving authentication data from the authentication device using a point-to-point protocol.

10. The system according to claim 6, further including:

a network administration terminal in communication with the 1xEV-DO network, the 1xEV-DO network using an IP protocol; and

a signaling device in communication with the network administration terminal and another communication network using a first communication protocol that is different from the IP protocol, wherein the signaling device is configured to convert the first communication protocol to the IP protocol and convert the IP protocol to the first communication protocol, the network administration terminal;

including a network interface arranged for communication using the IP protocol;

being configured to configure at least one device within the other communication network and at least one device within the 1xEV-DO communication network; and

being configured to communicate with the at least one device within the 1xEV-DO communication network using the IP protocol and communicating with the at least one device within the other communication network via the signaling device.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program which when executed performs a method for delivering messages constructed in a first communication protocol to a wireless access terminal in a communication network having a second communication protocol different from the first communication protocol, the method comprising:

receiving a message in the first communication protocol for delivery to the wireless access terminal;

storing a mapping between a first destination address corresponding to a first communication protocol destination address of the wireless access terminal in the first communication protocol, a mobile static identifier including a user id and a domain, and a second communication protocol destination address corresponding to a destination address of the wireless access terminal in the communication network, the mapping between the first communication protocol destination address and the second communication protocol destination address being based on a correspondence between the first communication protocol destination address and the mobile static identifier;

evaluating the mapping to determine the second protocol destination address of the wireless access terminal in the communication network; and

transmitting the message to the wireless access terminal using the second protocol destination address and the communication network.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 11, wherein the message is one of a short messaging system message and a multimedia messaging system message.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 12, wherein the second communication protocol is an IP protocol.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 13, wherein the communication network is a 1xEV-DO network.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 11, wherein the method further comprises dynamically assigning the second communication protocol destination address to the wireless access terminal as part of the establishment of a communication session between the wireless access terminal and the communication network.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the method further comprises receiving authentication data, the authentication data being transmitted using a point-to-point protocol.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 16, wherein a row in the mapping includes the mobile static identifier and first destination address, the method further comprising dynamically updating the row to include the dynamically assigned second communication protocol destination address when the wireless access terminal is authenticated.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 11, wherein the first communication protocol is signaling system seven.