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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
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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.

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