Method and system to enable communication through SMS communication channel

• US 9,014,731 B2
• Filed: 09/25/2012
• Issued: 04/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Anuwave LLC (IP Edge LLC)
• Original Assignee: Anuwave LLC (IP Edge LLC)
• Inventors: Suresh, Narasimha
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, MAHENDRA R
• Application Number:
  US13/626,158
• Publication Number:
  US 20140087773A1
• Time in Patent Office: 938 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455/422.1, 455/512, 455/434, 455/408, 379/201.3, 379/230, 379/88.13, 714/774, 709/225
• US Class Current: 455/466
• 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 88/16 Gateway arrangements

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and system to provide network aware applications on a mobile device that can communicate using existing SMS communication channels without resorting to other IP based communication channels that are costlier and are not available on many of the networks.

Claims

1. A system to enable communication through SMS communication channel comprising:

a plurality of network terminal stations each terminal station running a plurality of network aware applications managed by a middleware, the middleware listening to a specific port on the terminal station to check for incoming messages;

a central station to provide application services to the various network aware applications running on the plurality of network terminal stations;

an SMS gateway to facilitate SMS communication between a plurality of network terminal stations and the central station;

a network connection connecting the plurality of network terminal stations, the central station, and the SMS gateway,

wherein each terminal station comprises of;

a user interface module, a middleware; and

a transceiver; and

wherein said user interface module further comprises of a user interface builder comprising the meta information, wherein the meta information comprising information at least of available SMS based services, mobile numbers for the SMS gateways that are delivering the services and parameters that a user needs to enter or select for each of a plurality of services to build said user interface.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said middleware further comprises of:

a user action handler to display the associated parameters when the user has to enter an answer or select an option from available options;

a command generator to convert responses of users into command that can be decoded by the SMS gateway;

a Encryptor/Decryptor module to encode/decode commands; and

a response handler to receive the decoded response from the Encryptor/Decryptor and forward to the user interface builder.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said transceiver further comprises of:

a message sender to send the encoded command received from the Encryptor/Decryptor or the command which is not encoded received from the Command Generator as SMS by emulating the role of an SMS client; and

a message listener to receive the messages through telecommunication Network by listening to specific SMS ports and to interpret a received message.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein a network aware application is a browser for accessing a plurality of short code based SMS services or VASs.