METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN INCOMING ECOMMERCE SMS MESSAGE

摘要

The invention provides a method for processing an incoming ecommerce SMS response message received by a server from a recipient responding to an outgoing ecommerce SMS message. This method includes the receiving said SMS response message; the decoding an encryption string within said SMS response message with an appropriate key t o verify that said response message is directed to said server; the extracting of identificatio n from said SMS response message for processing information in said response; the identifyin g and obtaining a corresponding inbound template for said response message from said server; t he parsing said response with said inbound template to extract data and instructions contain ed in said response message, if any, for processing said data and instructions; and forwarding t he data and instructions to an application server for processing.