SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNIFYING THE IMPLEMENTATION AND PROCESSING OF MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AND A UNIFIED MOBILITY MANAGER FOR PROVIDING SUCH COMMUNICATIONS

摘要

A system and method for unifying and handling network messages of various communication protocols from various mobile systems. The network messages are being handled at a home system for the various mobile systems. A gateway cluster has a number of gateways of different types of communication protocols. The gateway cluster receives the network messages of the respective communication protocols at the home system. The respective gateways convert the network messages to normalized messages by querying the categories, the data, and the network types of the normalized data for the mobile systems from which the network messages were respectively generated therefrom. A database system stores normalized data in categories. The normalized data at least includes data relating to the mobile systems and network types for the data. A unified mobility manager is coupled to and in communications with the gateway cluster and the database system. The unified mobility manager receives and processes the normalized messages, performs operations based on the normalized messages and on the categories, the data, and the network types of the normalized data, and formulates normalized responses responsive to the normalized messages. The normalized responses are converted to network responses at the gateways and the network responses are sent to the respective mobile systems. A normalized data structure is provided for the normalized data, and the data structure generally comprises network message data, a category type for the data, and a network type that is reflective of the communication protocol from the network message.