Patent ID: 6965777
Filing Date: 2005-11-15
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of delivering a message from a message source device to a message receiving device through a short message point-to-point protocol gateway through which plural short message entities communicate with a plurality of messaging centers, the method comprising: transmitting a message from the message source device to the gateway, the message being associated with a message service type; determining at the gateway a routing method based on the message service type; and routing the message from the gateway to one of the plurality of messaging centers according to the routing method, the routing method is selected from a group consisting of message center specific, load balancing, mobile destination number (MDN) range, equal allocation and electronic serial number, the equal allocation routing method routing messages to a group of message centers based on sequentially sending messages to each message center in the group of message centers such that each message center in the group receives an equal number of messages.