Systems and Methods for Messaging Using a Broadband Connection
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Abstract
Systems and methods for sending and receiving text, or data, messages between wireless communication devices and wireline-messaging devices utilize a broadband connection to the wireline premises as the signaling channel. A message application server sends messages directly to wireline-messaging devices through a digital network, such as the Internet. Such systems and methods include wireline-messaging devices integrated with premises telephones connected to a PSTN, in which the telephones are adapted with thin client software to send and receive data messages.
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44 Claims
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1. -25. (canceled)
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26. A method for data messaging comprising:
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receiving, at a message application server, a data message from a wireless communication device, the data message identifying, as a routing address for the data message, a wireline directory number associated with an intended premises; mapping the wireline directory number to an Internet protocol address associated with a wireline-messaging device located at the intended premises; routing the data message to the wireline-messaging device located at the intended premises using the Internet protocol address. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A method for data messaging comprising:
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receiving, at a message application server, a data message from a wireless communication device, the data message identifying, as a terminating address, a wireline directory number; transmitting a return message to the wireless communication device requesting identification of an intended recipient of the data message from among a plurality of wireline-messaging devices associated with the wireline directory number; receiving a response message from the wireless communication device indicating the intended recipient; and mapping the wireline directory number associated with the intended recipient of the data message to an Internet protocol address associated with the intended recipient. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A system for data messaging comprising:
a message application server configured to perform a method comprising; receiving a data message from a wireless communication device, the data message identifying, as a terminating address, a wireline directory number; transmitting a return message to the wireless communication device requesting identification of an intended recipient of the data message from among a plurality of wireline-messaging devices associated with the wireline directory number; receiving a response message from the wireless communication device indicating the intended recipient; and mapping the wireline directory number associated with the intended recipient to an Internet protocol address associated with the intended recipient. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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