Short message processing method and relevant system

• US 9,497,605 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2013
• Issued: 11/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Duan, Xiaoyan
• Primary Examiner(s): Magloire, Vladimir
• Assistant Examiner(s): Donado, Frank
• Application Number:
  US14/143,441
• Publication Number:
  US 20140113668A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,051 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

A short message processing method and a relevant system. In one embodiment, a short message service (SMS)-submit message sent by a calling terminal to a mobile switching center (MSC) or service general packet radio service (GPRS) carries an indication that a called terminal does not have an MSISDN, and the SMS-submit message carries a session initiation protocol (SIP) uniform resource identifier (URI) of the called terminal, so that the calling terminal is capable of sending the indication and the SIP URI of the called terminal to an SMS-service center (SMS-SC) via the MSC or SGSN and an SMS-interworking MSC (SMS-IWMSC), and the SMS-SC implements short message communications with the called terminal via an SMS-GMSC and an Internet protocol (IP) short message-gateway (IP-SM-GW).

Claims

1. A short message processing method, comprising:

sending, by a calling terminal, a short message service (SMS)-submit message to either a mobile switching center (MSC) or a service general packet radio service support node (SGSN), wherein the SMS-submit message carries a session initiation protocol (SIP) uniform resource identifier (URI) of a called terminal and an indication that the called terminal does not have a mobile station international Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)/Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) number (MSISDN), wherein the SIP URI is an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem Public User Identity (IMPU) of the called terminal, wherein the called terminal does not have the MSISDN, wherein the indication is a value that indicates to the MSC or the SGSN that the called terminal does not have the MSISDN, wherein the SMS-submit message is received by either the MSC or the SGSN, and wherein the SMS-submit message is then sent to an SMS-service center (SMS-SC) via an SMS-interworking mobile switching center (SMS-IWMSC);

sending, by the SMS-SC, to an SMS-gateway mobile switching center (SMS-GMSC), an SMS-deliver message and the indication that the called terminal does not have an MSISDN, wherein the SMS-deliver message carries the SIP URI of the called terminal;

sending, by the SMS-GMSC, the indication and a Forward Short Message to an Internet protocol-short message-gateway (IP-SM-GW), wherein the Forward Short Message carries the SIP URI of the called terminal;

acquiring, by the IP-SM-GW, the SIP URI of the called terminal from the Forward Short Message according to the indication; and

sending, by the IP-SM-GW, an SIP Message to the called terminal,

wherein a request URI of the SIP Message is the SIP URI of the called terminal.

2. The short message processing method according to claim 1, wherein the SMS-submit message carries the SIP URI of the called terminal and the indication that the called terminal does not have the MSISDN comprises a preset newly-defined field in the SMS-submit message carries the indication that the called terminal does not have an MSISDN, wherein either the transfer layer protocol user data field header or the transfer layer protocol user data field short message of the SMS-submit message carries the SIP URI of the called terminal.

3. The short message processing method according to claim 1, wherein the sending, by the SMS-GMSC, the indication and the Forward Short Message to the IP-SM-GW comprises:

sending, by the SMS-GMSC, a first routing information request message to either a home location register (HLR) or a home subscriber server (HSS), wherein the first routing information request message carries the indication that the called terminal does not have an MSISDN;

forwarding, by the HLR or HSS, the first routing information request message to the IP-SM-GW;

generating, by the IP-SM-GW, a called correlation identifier;

returning the called correlation identifier and an MSISDN of the IP-SM-GW to the SMS-GMSC, wherein the called correlation identifier is used for correlating the Forward Short Message subsequently sent by the SMS-GMSC and the first routing information request message; and

sending, by the SMS-GMSC, the Forward Short Message to the IP-SM-GW, wherein the Forward Short Message carries the SIP URI of the called terminal and the called correlation identifier.

4. The short message processing method according to claim 1, wherein the SMS-submit message carries the SIP URI of the called terminal and the indication that the called terminal does not have the MSISDN comprises a transfer layer protocol-protocol identifier (TP-PID) field of the SMS-submit message carries the indication that the called terminal does not have the MSISDN, wherein either a transfer layer protocol user data field header or a transfer layer protocol user data field short message of the SMS-submit message carries the SIP URI of the called terminal.

5. The short message processing method according to claim 1, wherein the sending, by the SMS-SC to the SMS-GMSC, the SMS-deliver message and the indication that the called terminal does not have the MSISDN comprises:

sending, by the SMS-SC, a relay layer protocol-mobile terminated-data (RP-MT-DATA) message to the SMS-GMSC, wherein the SMS-deliver message is encapsulated in the RP-MT-DATA message, and wherein a relay layer protocol-destination-address (RP-DA) field or a preset newly-defined field of the RP-MT-DATA message carries the indication that the called terminal does not have the MSISDN.

6. The short message processing method according to claim 1, wherein the SMS-deliver message carrying the SIP URI of the called terminal comprises a transfer layer protocol user data field header of the SMS-deliver message carrying the SIP URI of the called terminal.

7. The short message processing method according to claim 3, wherein the first routing information request message comprises:

an MSISDN field that carries the indication that the called terminal does not have an MSISDN;

or

a preset newly-defined field in the first routing information request message carries the indication that the called terminal does not have an MSISDN.

8. The short message processing method according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring, by the IP-SM-GW, the SIP URI of the called terminal from the Forward Short Message comprises acquiring, by the IP-SM-GW, the SIP URI of the called terminal from either a transfer layer protocol user data field header or a transfer layer protocol user data field short message of the Forward Short Message.

9. The short message processing method according to claim 1, wherein after the sending, by the IP-SM-GW, the SIP Message to the called terminal comprises:

sending, by the IP-SM-GW, a second routing information request message to either the HLR or the HSS when the called terminal fails to receive the SIP Message, wherein the second routing information request message carries the SIP URI or an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) of the called terminal;

receiving, by the IP-SM-GW, either an MSC address or an SGSN address of the called terminal that is returned by either the HLR or HSS according to either the SIP URI or IMSI of the called terminal; and

sending, by the IP-SM-GW, the SMS-deliver message to the called terminal through the MSC or SGSN.

10. A short message processing method, comprising:

sending, by a calling terminal, a short message service (SMS)-submit message to either a mobile switching center (MSC) or a service general packet radio service support node (SGSN), wherein the SMS-submit message carries a mobile station international Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)/Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) number (MSISDN) of a short message specific service server and a session initiation protocol (SIP) uniform resource identifier (URI) of a called terminal that does not have an MSISDN to establish short message communication between the calling terming and the called terminal that does not have the MSISDN, wherein the SIP URI is an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem Public User Identity (IMPU) of the called terminal, and the SMS-submit message is received by either the MSC or the SGSN, and wherein the SMS-submit message is then sent to an SMS-service center (SMS-SC) via an SMS-interworking mobile switching center (SMS-IWMSC);

sending, by the SMS-SC, an SMS-deliver message and the MSISDN to an SMS-gateway mobile switching center (SMS-GMSC), wherein the SMS-deliver message carries the SIP URI of the called terminal;

sending, by the SMS-GMSC, a Forward Short Message to the short message specific service server according to the MSISDN, wherein the Forward Short Message carries the SIP URI of the called terminal;

acquiring, by the short message specific service server, the SIP URI of the called terminal from the Forward Short; and

sending, by the short message specific service server, an SIP Message to the called terminal,

wherein a request URI of the SIP Message is the SIP URI of the called terminal.

11. The short message processing method according to claim 10, wherein the sending, by the SMS-GMSC, a Forward Short Message to the short message specific service server according to the MSISDN comprises:

sending, by the SMS-GMSC, a first routing information request message to either a home location register (HLR) or a home subscriber server (HSS), wherein the first routing information request message carries the MSISDN;

forwarding, by the HLR or HSS, the first routing information request message to the short message specific service server;

generating, by the short message specific service server, a called correlation identifier;

returning the called correlation identifier and the MSISDN to the SMS-GMSC, wherein the called correlation identifier is used for correlating the Forward Short Message subsequently sent by the SMS-GMSC and the first routing information request message; and

sending, by the SMS-GMSC, the Forward Short Message to the short message specific service server, wherein the Forward Short Message carries the SIP URI of the called terminal and the called correlation identifier.

12. The short message processing method according to claim 10, wherein that the SMS-submit message carries the MSISDN of the short message specific service server and the SIP URI of the called terminal comprises a transfer layer protocol-destination-address (TP-DA) field of the SMS-submit message carries the MSISDN of the short message specific service server, wherein either a transfer layer protocol user data field header or a transfer layer protocol user data field short message of the SMS-submit message carries the SIP URI of the called terminal.

13. The short message processing method according to claim 10, wherein the sending, by the SMS-SC, the SMS-deliver message and the MSISDN to the SMS-GMSC comprises:

sending, by the SMS-SC, a relay layer protocol-mobile terminated-data (RP-MT-DATA) message to the SMS-GMSC, wherein the SMS-deliver message is encapsulated in the RP-MT-DATA message, and wherein a relay layer protocol-destination-address (RP-DA) field of the RP-MT-DATA message carries the MSISDN.

14. The short message processing method according to claim 10, wherein that the SMS-deliver message carries the SIP URI of the called terminal comprises a transfer layer protocol user data field short message of the SMS-deliver message carries the SIP URI of the called terminal.

15. The short message processing method according to claim 10, wherein the first routing information request message carrying the MSISDN of the short message specific service server comprises an MSISDN field of the first routing information request message carrying the MSISDN of the short message specific service server.

16. The short message processing method according to claim 10, wherein after the sending, by the short message specific service server, the SIP Message to the called terminal, comprises

sending, by the short message specific service server, a second routing information request message to either the HLR or the HSS when the called terminal fails to receive the SIP Message, wherein the second routing information request message carries the SIP URI or an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) of the called terminal;

receiving, by the short message specific service server, either an MSC address or an SGSN address of the called terminal that is returned by either the HLR or the HSS according to either the SIP URI or the IMSI of the called terminal; and

sending, by the short message specific service server, the SMS-deliver message to the called terminal through an MSC corresponding to either the MSC address or an SGSN corresponding to the SGSN address.

17. A short message processing method, comprising:

sending, by a calling terminal, a short message to an inter-working function entity (IWF), wherein the short message carries a non-mobile station international Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)/Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) number (MSISDN) identifier of a called terminal that does not have an MSISDN to establish short message communication between the calling terming and the called terminal that does not have the MSISDN;

mapping, by the IWF, the identifier of the called terminal as an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) of the called terminal, and sending a short message service (SMS)-submit message to an SMS-service center (SMS-SC), wherein the SMS-submit message carries the IMSI of the called terminal;

sending, by the SMS-SC, an SMS-deliver message to an SMS-gateway mobile switching center (SMS-GMSC), wherein the SMS-deliver message carries the IMSI of the called terminal;

sending, by the SMS-GMSC, a Forward Short Message to an Internet protocol (IP)-short message-gateway IP-SM-GW; and

sending, by the IP-SM-GW, a session initiation protocol (SIP) Message to the called terminal, wherein a request uniform resource identifier (URI) Request of the SIP Message is the SIP URI of the called terminal, wherein either the SIP URI of the called terminal is obtained by the IP-SM-GW through mapping according to the IMSI of the called terminal, or the SIP URI of the called terminal is obtained by a home location register (HLR) or a home subscriber server (HSS) through mapping according to the IMSI of the called terminal and sent to the IP-SM-GW.

18. The short message processing method according to claim 17, wherein the sending, by the SMS-GMSC, a Forward Short Message to an IP-SM-GW comprises:

sending, by the SMS-GMSC, a first routing information request message to the HLR or the HSS, wherein the first routing information request message carries the IMSI of the called terminal;

forwarding, by either the HLR or the HSS, the first routing information request message to the IP-SM-GW;

generating, by the IP-SM-GW, a called correlation identifier;

returning the called correlation identifier and an MSISDN of the IP-SM-GW to the SMS-GMSC, wherein the called correlation identifier is used for correlating the Forward Short Message subsequently sent by the SMS-GMSC and the first routing information request message; and

sending, by the SMS-GMSC, the Forward Short Message to the IP-SM-GW, wherein the Forward Short Message carries the called correlation identifier.

19. The short message processing method according to claim 17, wherein that the SMS-submit message carries the IMSI of the called terminal comprises:

that a transfer layer protocol-destination-address (TP-DA) field of the SMS-submit message carries the IMSI of the called terminal.

20. The short message processing method according to claim 17, wherein that the SMS-deliver message carries the IMSI of the called terminal comprises:

that the SMS-deliver message is encapsulated in a relay layer protocol-mobile terminated-data (RP-MT-DATA) message, and a relay layer protocol-destination-address (RP-DA) field of the RP-MT-DATA message carries the IMSI of the called terminal.

21. The short message processing method according to claim 17, wherein after the sending, by the IP-SM-GW, the SIP Message to the called terminal, further comprises:

sending, by the IP-SM-GW, a second routing information request message to either the HLR or the HSS when the called terminal fails to receive the SIP Message, wherein the second routing information request message either carries the SIP URI or an IMSI of the called terminal;

receiving, by the IP-SM-GW, an MSC address or SGSN address of the called terminal that is returned by either the HLR or the HSS according to the SIP URI or the IMSI of the called terminal; and

sending, by the IP-SM-GW, the SMS-deliver message to the called terminal through an MSC corresponding to the MSC address or an SGSN corresponding to the SGSN address.