Signature control for SMS
View Patent ↗A social messaging hub provides communication services for a data enabled device having Internet network access capabilities. A user is given a registered phone number and unique IP addressable identification which serve as a source and destination identifier of the associated data enabled device. User signatures can be appended onto SMS messages and using resources on the social messaging hub a user can control when the signatures are appended.
1. A method for controlling signatures appended to Short Message Service/Multimedia Messaging Service/Enhanced Messaging Service (SMS/MMS/EMS) communications comprising:
assigning to a user of a data enabled device a unique identifier;
associating the unique identifier with a data enabled device identifier;
registering the unique identifier to data enabled device identifier
association in a database;
receiving a sender signature;
receiving a sender defined signature control criterion including an interval for appending the signature onto the SMS message;
maintaining a sender-recipient history;
determining whether to append the signature onto an SMS message as a function of the sender defined signature control criterion and the sender-recipient history; and
providing the SMS message to a message service for delivery to a message recipient indicated by an SMS destination identifier.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sender defined signature control criterion further specifies that the criterion is to be applied to a message thread.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determination whether to append the signature is made remotely from the data enabled device.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the signature is stored remote from the data enabled device.
5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the signature is stored on a social media hub.
6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the signature is stored in a cloud storage system.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sender defined signature control criterion interval comprises a default interval.