System and method for enhanced application server

• US 9,209,994 B2
• Filed: 12/31/2008
• Issued: 12/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sybase Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: Sybase Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Sarmah, Dilip, Sutton, Raphael Hercules
• Primary Examiner(s): Kasraian, Allahyar
• Application Number:
  US12/347,357
• Publication Number:
  US 20100167765A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,533 Days
• Field of Search: 705/14.64, 705/39, 709/206, 709/207, 455/435.1, 455/466
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1063 Application servers providing network services systems providing special services to telephonic subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/184 Messaging devices, e.g. message centre

Abstract

A flexible, extensile, and dynamically configurable back-end Application Server environment that efficiently supports the ever-increasing range of activities for which mobile subscribers employ their wireless devices. The environment may operate within any number of entities within a messaging ecosystem including for example a service provider.

Claims

1. An application server system, comprising:

one or more processors;

a gateway configured to receive, using the one or more processors, an incoming message from a Wireless Device (WD) of a Mobile Subscriber (MS), wherein the incoming message includes an identifier of the WD and is indicative of the MS initiating a transaction;

one or more workflow modules configured to;

retrieve, based on the identifier, using the one or more processors, MS information;

generate, in response to the incoming message, using the one or more processors, a first update to a third-party to process the transaction, wherein the first update includes at least one aspect of the retrieved MS information;

generate, using the one or more processors, a confirmation request message to allow the MS to complete the transaction, wherein the confirmation request message additionally comprises at least one of an informational element, an advertisement, and a promotion;

determine, using the one or more processors, whether a confirmation reply message was received within a predetermined amount of time;

process, using the one or more processors, the confirmation reply message from the MS confirming completion of the transaction in response to a determination that the confirmation reply message was received within the predetermined amount of time; and

generate, as part of the confirmation reply message processing, using the one or more processors, a second update to the third-party to complete the transaction;

a data storage module configured to store, using the one or more processors, details of one or more of the messages in at least one repository; and

an administrative module configured to provide, using the one or more processors, administrative control over configuration of the gateway and the one or more workflow modules.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the incoming message is one of a Short Message Service (SMS) message or Multimedia Message Service (MMS) message.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the identifier is a telephone number.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the incoming message includes access credentials supplied by the MS.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the MS information is information provided by the MS during a registration process.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the registration process captures one or more of identifying information, account information, security service information, and billing information.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the registration process generates a MS profile.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the registration process is web-based.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein the registration process includes a billing component.

10. The system of claim 5, wherein the registration process generates one or more confirmation messages.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the one or more confirmation messages are each one of a SMS message or MMS message.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the confirmation request message and the confirmation reply message are each one of a SMS message or MMS message.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the one or more workflow modules is further configured to:

complete a billing transaction.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the received incoming message is indicative of the MS initiating a financial transaction.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the one or more workflow modules is further configured to implement an interceptor faç

ade.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the received incoming message is indicative of the MS initiating a transaction to complete a payment portion of a purchase.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the at least one of an informational element, an advertisement, and a promotion is determined statically, randomly or based on the location of the MS.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more workflow modules are further configured to render the confirmation reply message unusable in response to a determination that the confirmation reply message was not received within the predetermined amount of time.

19. A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon, that if executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the instructions comprising:

receiving an incoming message from a Wireless Device (WD) of a Mobile Subscriber (MS), wherein the incoming message includes an identifier of the WD and is indicative of the MS initiating a transaction;

retrieving, based on the identifier, MS information;

generating, in response to the incoming message, a first update to a third-party to process the transaction, wherein the first update includes at least one aspect of the retrieved MS information;

generating a confirmation request message to allow the MS to complete the transaction, wherein the confirmation request message additionally comprises at least one of an informational element, an advertisement, and a promotion;

determining whether a confirmation reply message was received within a predetermined amount of time;

processing, the confirmation reply message from the MS confirming completion of the transaction in response to a determination that the reply message was received within the predetermined amount of time; and

generating, as part of the confirmation reply message processing, a second update to the third-party to complete the transaction.

20. A computer implemented method for enhanced application server message processing, the method comprising:

receiving an incoming message from a Wireless Device (WD) of a Mobile Subscriber (MS), wherein the incoming message includes an identifier of the WD and is indicative of the MS initiating a transaction;

retrieving, based on the identifier, MS information;

generating, in response to the incoming message, a first update to a third-party to process the transaction, wherein the first update includes at least one aspect of the retrieved MS information;

generating a confirmation request message to allow the MS to complete the transaction, wherein the confirmation request message additionally comprises at least one of an informational element, an advertisement, and a promotion;

determining whether a confirmation reply message was received within a predetermined amount of time;

processing the confirmation reply message from the MS confirming completion of the transaction in response to a determination that the confirmation reply message was received within a predetermined amount of time; and

generating, as part of the confirmation reply message processing, a second update to the third-party to complete the transaction.