Patent ID: 7373384
Filing Date: 2008-05-13
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A short message storage system operable to store short messages sent from a sender mobile terminal and to provide user access to the stored short messages, the system comprising: a Short Message Service Center operable to receive a short message from the sender mobile terminal and for forwarding the short message to a recipient mobile terminal; said Short Message Service Center being operative to access through a Signal Transfer Point node, a Home Location Register for obtaining information corresponding to information stored in a Visitor Location Register in which the recipient mobile terminal is registered and an International Mobile Subscriber Identification of said recipient mobile terminal; said Short Message Service Center being operable to deliver the short message to the recipient mobile terminal through said Visitor Location Register; a short message storage operable to store the short message received; an identification storage operable to store an identification of said short message storage, and to access a database relating said identification with a storage address having a Visitor Location Register address format, when the short message received includes said identification; the Short Message Service Center operable to forward the message received to the short message storage at said storage address, when the short message received by the Short Message Service Center refers to the identification of the short message storage; and said short message storage operable to store the short message together with an identification of the first mobile terminal that sent the short message, and to re-send the short message, according to a receipt of a user command requesting the re-sending, to another recipient terminal.