Systems and methods for messaging using a broadband connection

摘要

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.

主权项

1. A method for data messaging comprising:
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 premises broadband gateway of the intended premises and associated with a plurality of wireline-messaging devices located at the intended premises, each of the plurality of wireline-messaging devices associated with a respective one of a plurality of users, wherein one of the plurality of wireline-messaging devices comprises a premises telephone connected to a public switched telephone network; establishing a point-to-point protocol session over a broadband connection between the message application server and each of the plurality of wireline-messaging devices via the premises broadband gateway at the intended premises; and routing a password protected message comprising the data message from the message application server to the premises broadband gateway for routing to each of the plurality of wireline-messaging devices located at the intended premises using the Internet protocol address, content of the password protected message displayed to a particular user via the premises telephone in response to entry of a password of the password protected message associated with the particular user into the premises telephone.