A SHORT MESSAGE POIN-TO-POINT PROTOCOL GATEWAY HAVING A STANDARD INTERFACE

摘要

The present invention comprises a system (200) for allowing an external short message entity (202) to submit messages to be delivered to a wireless device (236). The system (200) involves implementing an external interface to the messaging complex (216) of a wireless system. The interface enables all ESMEs (202) to communicate with the messaging complex (216) using a consistent standard interface. The system comprises a short messaging point-to-point router (222), a message complex (216), a home location register (226) and a mobile switching center (232). The external short message entity (202) connects to the short messaging point-to-point router (222) and requests delivery of a message to a wireless device (236), and the short message point-to-point router (222) the request to an appropriate messaging center (224).