Patent ID: 8369879
Filing Date: 2013-02-05
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. One or more nontransitory computer-readable media having embodied thereon computer-useable instructions that, when executed by a network device, cause the network device to perform a method of forwarding a data message, originally addressed to a first mobile device, to a second mobile device in a wireless telecommunications network, wherein the data message is sent from a third mobile device, the method comprising: receiving the data message originally addressed to the first mobile device and sent from the third mobile device; determining that the data message is to be forwarded to the second mobile device; determining that the second mobile device belongs to a different telecommunications carrier than the first mobile device; forwarding the data message to the second mobile device, wherein the forwarding includes sending the data message to an inter-carrier gateway for forwarding to the second mobile device; determining whether the data message originally addressed to the first mobile device, and forwarded to the second mobile device, should also be sent to the first mobile device in addition to forwarding the data message to the second mobile device; when a determination is made that the data message should also be sent to the first mobile device, then sending the data message to the first mobile device in addition to forwarding the data message to the second mobile device, wherein the data message sent from the third mobile device is sent to both the second mobile device and the first mobile device.