MOBILE MESSAGING SHORT CODE TRANSLATION AND ROUTING SYSTEM AND METHOD
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.
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 entity 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 the short code translator with said short code for said corresponding application server destination address,
caching the destination address for future use,
establishing a connection between the message entity gateway and the application server, and
routing the mobile-originated message to the application server based on the destination address.
2 . 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 mobile device destination addresses;
at said application server,
initiating an application-originated message to the mobile device, said message having a short code; and;
forwarding the application-originated message to the message entity gateway;
at said message entity gateway,
if the corresponding destination address of the short code was previously cached, routing the application-originated message to the mobile device based on the destination address,
else,
querying the short code translator with said short code for said corresponding mobile device destination address,
caching the destination address for future use,
establishing a connection between the message entity gateway and the mobile device, and
routing the application-originated message to the mobile device based on the destination address.