Patent ID: 8504083
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for determining a message service provider's quality of service, the method comprising: transmitting a message command to a message service provider, the message service command corresponding to a request for the message service provider to transmit a message to a mobile device, wherein said message service provider is a Short Message Service provider and/or a Multimedia Messaging Service provider, wherein said message is received by the mobile device as a Short Message Service message or a Multimedia Messaging Service message, and wherein said message comprises an identifier; generating a send event record corresponding to the time at which the message was sent, said send event record comprising said identifier; storing the send event record; obtaining receipt data, said receipt data generated by the mobile device in response to the message being received by the mobile device, said receipt data corresponding to the time at which said mobile device received said message, said receipt data comprising said identifier; storing a receipt event record corresponding to the receipt data, said receipt event record comprising location data identifying a location of the mobile device which received the message; and making the send event record and the receipt event record available to calculate a measure of the service provider's location-specific quality of service based at least partly on the send event record and the location data in the receipt event record.