Patent ID: 9204272
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for serving binary short message service (SMS) content to the subscribers of a telematics service provider (TSP) on multiple mobile devices that together constitute a group of mobile devices, wherein individual members of subsets of the group of mobile devices are provisioned with a wireless network different from the wireless network with which individual members of other subsets of the group are provisioned, the method comprising: receiving a binary SMS message at a receiving module of an external short message entity (ESME); translating the binary SMS message into a protocol data unit (PDU); routing the PDU from the ESME through a transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) network to an SMS gateway producing application that has created virtual serial ports which are mapped to physical serial ports at a terminal server; directing the PDU to a virtual serial port which is mapped to a physical serial port at the terminal server; sending the PDU from the terminal server to a data modem that is provisioned with a wireless carrier; and instructing the data modem to transmit the binary SMS to a mobile device provisioned with the same wireless carrier with which the data modem is provisioned.