APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR ANONYMOUS MESSAGING

摘要

According to the disclosed apparatuses and methods, a node sending a message to one or more recipient nodes is provided with the option to conceal its identity, or at least a portion of its addressing information, from at least one recipient of the message. In order to provide compliance with applicable protocols, the sender may be asigned a temporary identifier for the purpose of transmitting the message to the recipient. In one embodiment, an OMA SIMPLE message is sent to a gateway and translated into the SMS messaging protocol. Then, a temporarily assigned MSISDN is used for sending the SMS to the recipient, thereby providing a return path for a response message to the sender node.