Patent ID: 9473323
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A system for selective delivery of text messages comprising: a database of delivery criteria for text messages, wherein the database is adapted to be accessed by a customer to set a customer's delivery criteria for a customer's telephone number associated with the customer, wherein the delivery criteria specify one or more message delivery windows and wherein the delivery criteria are automatically modifiable based on a presence feedback parameter comprising global positioning system location information for the customer; and a global text gateway adapted to communicate with the database to access the customer's delivery criteria, wherein a text message telephone number associated only with the global text gateway is assigned to the global text gateway, so that text messages addressed to the text message telephone number are routed directly to the global text gateway, wherein the global text gateway is adapted to forward text messages to a communication network for delivery to the customer's telephone number based on the customer's delivery criteria and based at least in part on the global positioning system location information for the customer, such that messages received when the customer is located at designated locations are scheduled to be delivered at a next occurrence of one of the one or more message delivery windows, and wherein the global text gateway is further configured to receive a reply message from the customer responsive to the text message, transcode the format of the reply message to a text message, and forward the transcoded text message to a sender of the text message.