Patent ID: 8577400
Filing Date: 2013-11-05
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: routing mobile terminated short messages in a network node of a communications system; providing a service comprising one or more functions to be invoked in response to receiving a request to forward a mobile terminated short message addressed to a mobile station; receiving a request to forward a mobile terminated short message; determining a type of transmission of the received mobile terminated short message, the type of transmission indicating whether or not a request for forwarding the same mobile terminated short message has been previously received in the network node; adjusting an implementation of the service for the mobile terminated short message on the basis of the determined type of transmission of the mobile terminated short message; and invoking adjusted functions of the service according to the determined type of transmission, wherein the adjusted functions of the service comprise storing short message identification information of the mobile terminated short message.