Method and system for providing message services in a communication system

• US 20050176410A1
• Filed: 04/13/2005
• Published: 08/11/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Unify Patente GmbH & Co. KG (Atos Se)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Information And Communication Networks, Inc.
• Inventors: Williams, William H. Jr., Brooking, Michael A.
• Granted Patent: US 7,454,201 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/412.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42229 Personal communication services, i.e. services related to one subscriber independent of his terminal and/or location diverting calls from one subscriber to another subscriber, i.e. two different subscriptions H04M3/54; selecting arrangements in intelligent networks H04Q3/005
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5322 for recording text messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53366 Message disposing or creating aspects

Abstract

A method for providing message services is provided that includes receiving a user notification message in an application. A user identifier for at least one recipient of the message is received in the application. The user identifier is operable to identify the recipient. The message and the user identifier are provided from the application to a private network. The private network is operable to transmit the message to a mobile station for the recipient. The mobile station has a corresponding mobile station identifier, and the user identifier is assigned to the mobile station identifier in the private network.

Claims

1-26. -26. (canceled)

27. A system for providing message services through a private network and a mobile station, comprising:

at least one device; and

logic on the device, the logic operable to receive a user notification message in an application, to receive a user identifier for at least one recipient of the message in the application, the user identifier operable to identify the recipient, and to provide the message and the user identifier from the application to the private network operable to transmit the message to the mobile station for the recipient, the mobile station having a corresponding mobile station identifier, the user identifier assigned to the mobile station identifier in the private network.

28. A system for providing message services through a private network and a mobile station, comprising:

at least one device; and

logic on the device, the logic operable to receive a user notification message in the private network, to receive in the private network a user identifier for at least one recipient of the message, the user identifier operable to identify the recipient, to determine a mobile station identifier based on the user identifier, and to transmit the message to the mobile station for the recipient based on the mobile station identifier.

29. A system for providing message services through a private network and a mobile station, comprising:

at least one device; and

logic on the device, the logic operable to assign a user identifier to a first mobile station identifier corresponding to a first mobile station in the private network, to receive in the private network a first message and the user identifier, the user identifier operable to identify a recipient for the first message, to determine a mobile station identifier for the first message based on the user identifier, the mobile station identifier for the first message comprising the first mobile station identifier, to transmit the first message to the first mobile station based on the first mobile station identifier, to assign the user identifier to a second mobile station identifier corresponding to a second mobile station in the private network, to receive in the private network a second message and the user identifier, the user identifier operable to identify a recipient for the second message, the recipient for the second message comprising the recipient for the first message, to determine a mobile station identifier for the second message based on the user identifier, the mobile station identifier for the second message comprising the second mobile station identifier, and to transmit the second message to the second mobile station based on the second mobile station identifier.

30-33. -33. (canceled)