Patent ID: 9641479
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method to interwork between messaging service technologies, comprising: receiving, at an interworking function, a message containing at least one of an original sender address and an identity, which is valid for sending messages in a messaging service of a non-converged messaging technology, but is not valid for sending messages in a messaging service of a converged messaging technology, the message addressed to a recipient operating in the messaging service of the converged messaging technology; determining, for the at least one of the received original sender address and identity, at least one of a new sender address and identity, which is valid in the messaging service of the converged messaging technology; inserting the new at least one of the sender address and identity in a header field of the message; and including the at least one of the original sender address and identity into the message, to enable a reply to the message via a route other than the interworking function, after a selection of an option to send the reply via the non-converged messaging technology rather than via the converged messaging technology.