摘要 |
Provided herein is a system, method and product for performing address translation and routing of short codes. The embodiment described herein primarily supports the wireless and standardized SMS; however, one skilled in the art can readily appreciate that the present invention can also be applied to any mobile messaging technology, e.g., Multimedia Messaging Service (“MMS”), etc. |
主权项 |
1. In a network system comprising at least one mobile device, message entity gateway, short code translator and application server, a method of translating and routing short code addresses, comprising:
providing a plurality of short codes and corresponding application server destination addresses; at said mobile device,
initiating a mobile-originated message to the application server, said message having a short code; and;forwarding the mobile-originated message to the message entity gateway; at said message gateway,
if the corresponding destination address of the short code was previously cached, routing the mobile-originated message to the application server based on the destination address,else,
querying, over a data network, the short code translator with said short code for said corresponding application server destination address,receiving the application server destination address for the short code in a naming space of the data network via a return message from the short code translator;caching the destination address for future use,establishing a connection between the message entity gateway and the application server, androuting the mobile-originated message to the application server based on the destination address. |