Method, apparatus and computer readable medium for terminating and newly constructing a send routing information (SRI) message in mobile networks

摘要

An originating SMSC in Network A issues an SRI-SM towards the HLR of a recipient (User B in Network B). One of a number of N Platforms or Message Controllers (“MCOs”) intercepts the SRI-SM. Instead of passing on the SRI-SM, the MCO terminates it and performs a full decode of all fields, specifically extracting the recipient MSISDN from it. The MCO then constructs a new SRI-SM for the same MSISDN, but forcing the new request to ask for all available data, including, but not necessarily limited to visited-MSC address, SGSN address and IP-SM-GW address. When a response is received the MCO generates a fresh query response for the originating SMSC instead of merely routing on the response which it receives. If the MCO is programmed to provide a false address for smart services it incorporates the false address in the query response which it generates.

主权项

1. A message controller for a mobile network, the message controller comprising a digital processor and signal ports and being adapted to:
receive an incoming original routing query from a message service centre, process the routing query and use information in the query to generate a plurality of fresh routing queries, and send each fresh routing query to the destination of the original routing query and/or to an alternative destination,wherein the message controller is adapted to:
maintain a register of currently available resource servers, retrieve information from said resource servers for use in generating the fresh routing query or to determine where the fresh routing query is to be sent, receive a response to the fresh routing query, generate a fresh response for the message service centre which sent the original routing query, and to execute application functions on a sequenced operation layer.