Methods and systems for mobile device messaging

• US 8,112,103 B2
• Filed: 01/16/2004
• Issued: 02/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Lin, Lynn, Shih, George, Yeh, Kuang-Chao Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): DESIR, PIERRE LOUIS
• Application Number:
  US10/759,642
• Publication Number:
  US 20050164721A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,944 Days
• Field of Search: 455/412.1, 455/466
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• 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

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media for mobile device messaging. Mobile device messaging comprises collecting from an originating system information including content data to be sent to the mobile device. One or more short messages are generating for encapsulating the content data. The one or more short messages are formatted to be readable by a web service and the content data is formatted to be readable by the mobile device. The one or more short messages are sent to the web service for delivery to the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method of mobile device messaging comprising:

receiving, at a web service client, a request from a user to send content to a mobile device;

collecting, from an originating system of the user, information including content data to be sent to the mobile device;

generating two or more short messages encapsulating the content data, the short message formatted to be readable by a web service and the content data formatted to be readable by the mobile device;

sending the two or more short messages to the web service for delivery to the mobile device; and

receiving a response readable by the originating system that indicates a status of delivery of the two or more short messages, wherein said response has a first result element and a second result element, and further wherein each said result element has one or more child elements representing details of said result element, wherein,

the first result element further comprises;

a first child count element of the first result element, wherein the first child count element indicates a number of the two or more short messages delivered successfully;

and wherein the second result element further comprises;

a second child count element of the second result element, wherein the second child count element indicates a number of the two or more short messages unsuccessfully delivered;

a recipient element, wherein the recipient element is included when a recipient is associated with an error that caused the unsuccessful delivery of the two or more short messages;

an error cause element comprising an indication of the cause of the error that resulted in unsuccessful delivery of the short messages unsuccessfully delivered; and

a message element that contains a message describing the error;

parsing the received response into individual elements; and

notifying the web service client of the success or failure of the two or more messages based on the individual elements from the parsed received response.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving the two or more short messages at a web service;

determining whether a sender of the short message is authentic and authorized to send the short message based on sender information in the short message; and

if the sender of the short message is authentic and authorized to send the short message, sending the content data from the short message to the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein collecting information to be sent to the mobile device further comprises collecting sender information, the sender information comprising a sender identification and a sender password.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein collecting information to be sent to the mobile device further comprises collecting destination information, the destination information comprising a service provider and a cellular telephone number of a destination mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein collecting information to be sent to the mobile device further comprises collecting delivery information, the delivery information comprising a time and date for the web service to send the content data to the mobile device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein generating one of the two or more short messages further comprises:

determining whether the content data is longer than a pre-determined size for the short message;

responsive to determining the content data is longer than the pre-determined size for the short message, determining whether to split the content data into multiple portions;

responsive to determining to split the content data into multiple portions, splitting the content data into multiple portions, each portion not longer than the predetermined size for the short message; and

encapsulating each portion in a separate short message.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the two or more short messages comprises generating an eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML) file including the content data contained in a Short Message Service (SMS) message.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the two or more short messages comprises generating an eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML) file including the content data contained in a Multimedia Message Service (MMS) message.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein sending the two or more short messages to the web service comprises sending the two or more short messages using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).

10. A method for mobile device messaging over a web service comprising:

receiving two or more short messages from a web service client, the two or more short messages formatted to be readable by a web service and containing content data formatted to be readable by a mobile device, wherein the content data was specified by a user request to be sent from an originating system of the user to the mobile device;

determining whether a sender of the two or more short messages is authentic and authorized to send the two or more short messages;

if the sender of the two or more short messages are authentic and authorized to send the two or more short messages, sending the content data to the mobile device;

generating a response readable by the web service client and indicating a status of delivery of the two or more short messages, wherein said response has a first result element an a second result element, and further wherein each said result element has one or more child elements representing details of said result element, wherein,

the first result element further comprises;

a first child count element of the first result element, wherein the first child count element indicates a number of the two or more short messages delivered successfully;

and wherein the second result element further comprises;

a second child count element of the second result element indicates a number of the two or more short messages unsuccessfully delivered;

a recipient element, wherein the recipient element is included when a recipient is associated with an error that caused the unsuccessful delivery of the two or more short messages;

an error cause element comprising an indication of the cause of the error that resulted in unsuccessful delivery of the short messages unsuccessfully delivered; and

a message element that contains a message describing the error; and

sending the response to the web service client.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the two or more short messages comprises an eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML) file including the content data contained in a Short Message Service (SMS) message.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the two or more short messages comprises an eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML) file including the content data contained in a Multimedia Message Service (MMS) message.

13. A system for mobile device messaging over a web service comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled with and readable by the processor and containing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

receive, at a web service client, a request from a user to send content to a mobile device;

collect, from an originating system of the user, information including content data to be sent to the mobile device;

generate two or more short messages encapsulating the content data, the two or more short messages formatted to be readable by a web service and the content data formatted to be readable by the mobile device;

send the two or more short messages to a web service for delivery to the mobile device;

receive a response readable by the originating system that indicates a status of delivery of the two or more short messages, wherein said response has a first result element and a second result element, and further wherein each said result element has one or more child elements representing details of said result element, wherein,

the first result element further comprises;

a first child count element of the first result element, wherein the first child count element indicates a number of the two or more short messages delivered successfully;

and wherein the second result element further comprises;

second child count element of the second result element, wherein the second child count element indicates a number of the two or more short messages unsuccessfully delivered;

a recipient element, wherein the recipient element is included when a recipient is associated with an error that caused the unsuccessful delivery of the two or more short messages;

an error cause element comprising an indication of the cause of the error that resulted in unsuccessful delivery of the short messages unsuccessfully delivered; and

a message element that contains a message describing the error;

parsing the received response into individual elements; and

notifying the web service client of the success or failure of the two or more messages based on the individual elements from the parsed received response.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein collecting information to be sent to the mobile device further comprises collecting sender information, the sender information comprising a sender identification and a sender password.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein collecting information to be sent to the mobile device further comprises collecting destination information, the destination information comprising a service provider and a cellular telephone number of a destination mobile device.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein collecting information to be sent to the mobile device further comprises collecting delivery information, the delivery information comprising a time and date for the web service to send the content data to the mobile device.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein generating one of the two or more short messages further comprises:

determining whether the content data is longer than a pre-determined size for the short message;

responsive to determining the content data is longer than the pre-determined size for the short message, determining whether to split the content data into multiple portions;

responsive to determining to split the content data into multiple portions, splitting the content data into multiple portions, each portion not longer than the predetermined size for the short message; and

encapsulating each portion in a separate short message.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein generating the two or more short messages comprises generating an eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML) file including the content data contained in a Short Message Service (SMS) message.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein generating the two or more short messages comprises generating an eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML) file including the content data contained in a Multimedia Message Service (MMS) message.

20. The system of claim 13, wherein sending the two or more short messages to the web service comprises sending the two or more short messages using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).

21. A system for mobile device messaging over a web service comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled with and readable by the processor and containing a series of instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

receive two or more short messages from a web service client, the two or more short messages formatted to be readable by a web service and containing content data formatted to be readable by a mobile device, wherein the content data was specified by a user request to be sent from an originating system of the user to the mobile device;

determine whether a sender of the two or more short messages are authentic and authorized to send the two or more short messages, and if the sender of the two or more short messages are authentic and authorized to send the two or more short messages, send the content data to the mobile device;

generate a response readable by the web service client that indicates a status of delivery of the two or more short messages, wherein said response has a first result element and a second result element, and further wherein each said result element has one or more child elements representing details of said result element, wherein,

the first result element further comprises;

a first child count element of the first result element, wherein the first child count element indicates a number of the two or more short messages delivered successfully;

and wherein the second result element further comprising;

a second child count element of the second result element indicates a number of the two or more short messages unsuccessfully delivered;

a recipient element, wherein the recipient element is included when a recipient is associated with an error that caused the unsuccessful delivery of the two or more short messages;

an error cause element comprising an indication of the cause of the error that resulted in unsuccessful delivery of the short messages unsuccessfully delivered; and

a message element that contains a message describing the error; and

send the response to the web service client.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein the two or more short messages comprises an eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML) file including the content data contained in a Short Message Service (SMS) message.

23. The system of claim 21, wherein the two or more short messages comprises an eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML) file including the content data contained in a Multimedia Message Service (MMS) message.