Multi-segment short message with a read acknowledgment request

• US 9,560,497 B2
• Filed: 05/01/2015
• Issued: 01/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TeleCommunication Systems Inc (Comtech Telecommunications Corporation)
• Original Assignee: TeleCommunication Systems Inc (Comtech Telecommunications Corporation)
• Inventors: Meyer, Dennis, Tuttle, Lewis
• Primary Examiner(s): MITCHELL, NATHAN A
• Application Number:
  US14/702,018
• Publication Number:
  US 20150296353A1
• Time in Patent Office: 641 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• 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 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

A Short Message Serving System (SMSC) can be configured to determine a format of a short service message (SMS) message with a read acknowledgement request. The SMSC can also be configured to generate a Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) multi-segment short message that includes user data from the SMS message and comprises a plurality of ordered segments. The GSM multi-segment short message can include a read acknowledgement request.

Claims

1. A non-transitory machine readable medium having machine executable instructions comprising a Short Message Serving System (SMSC) being configured to:

determine a format of a short service message (SMS) message with a read acknowledgement request;

generate a Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) multi-segment short message that includes user data from the SMS message and comprises a plurality of ordered segments, wherein the GSM multi-segment short message includes a read acknowledgement request;

wherein generating the GSM multi-segment short message comprises generating a segment with an order number of zero for the GSM multi-segment short message in response to determining that an amount data employed in a last segment of the GSM multi-segment message is equal to or greater than a threshold value.

2. The medium of claim 1, wherein the SMSC is further configured to add the read acknowledgement request to the segment with the order number of zero.

3. The medium of claim 1, wherein the threshold value is 136 Octets.

5. The medium of claim 1, wherein the GSM multi-segment short message is an SMS message with Extended Messaging Service extensions.

6. The medium of claim 5, wherein the read acknowledgement request comprises a read acknowledgment Information-Element (IE).

7. The medium of claim 6, wherein the read acknowledgment IE comprises an Information-Element-identifier.

8. The medium of claim 1, wherein the format of the SMS message with the read acknowledgment request is a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) format.

9. The medium of claim 8, the read acknowledgment request of the SMS message is defined by a reply_option field of the SMS message.

10. The medium of claim 1, wherein the format of the SMS message with the read acknowledgment request is an External Short Messaging Entity (ESME) format.

11. The medium of claim 10, wherein the read acknowledgment request of the SMS message is defined by a registered_delivery field of the SMS message.

12. The medium of claim 1, wherein the SMSC is further configured to convert an GSM SMS message with a read acknowledgment into the same format as the SMS message with the read acknowledgement request.

4. A non-transitory machine readable medium having machine executable instructions comprising a Short Message Serving System (SMSC) being configured to:

determine a format of a short service message (SMS) message with a read acknowledgement request; and

generate a Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) multi-segment short message that includes user data from the SMS message and comprises a plurality of ordered segments, wherein the GSM multi-segment short message includes a read acknowledgement request;

wherein the generating comprises adding the read acknowledgement request to a last segment of the GSM multi-segment short message in response to determining that an mount of data employed in the last segment is less than a threshold value.