Patent ID: 8340639
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A message processing system, which comprises: a message center adapted to: determine, after receiving a message sent from a source terminal, whether a service identifier of the source terminal has been stored for the source terminal, query a subscription data center about whether to hide a calling number of the source terminal if the message center has stored the service identifier determine whether to hide the calling number in the message when forwarding the message to a destination terminal in accordance with a received query message response received from a subscription data center, and to hide the calling number when forwarding the message to the destination terminal, if the received query message response carries a calling number hiding identifier, otherwise, forward the message to the destination terminal without hiding the calling number, if the received query message response carries a calling number non-hiding identifier; and wherein the user subscription data center is adapted to: store subscription data of the source terminal, receive the query message sent from the message center, and return the query message response to the message center, wherein the query message response comprising whether to hide the calling number in accordance with the subscription data of the source terminal; the subscription data of the source terminal comprises a hiding period that is set by the source terminal for the short message destination terminal for which the calling number is hidden.