Patent ID: 8401576
Filing Date: 2013-03-19
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a messaging service on a sender's mobile wireless device in a wireless communications network, the method comprising the following steps performed by the sender's mobile wireless device: the sender's mobile wireless device retrieving, a numeric destination address associated with a recipient's mobile wireless device, from an outgoing message on the sender's mobile wireless device, wherein the sender's mobile wireless device is capable of sending the outgoing message to the same numeric destination address via a packet-switched bearer and an SMS bearer; the sender's mobile wireless device verifying whether the numeric destination address is currently capable of receiving the outgoing message via the packet-switched bearer, said verifying comprising determining whether the numeric destination address is currently an active messaging service subscriber; if verification is affirmative, the sender's mobile wireless device then automatically sending the outgoing message to the recipient's mobile wireless device at the numeric destination address via the packet-switched bearer, but otherwise the sender's mobile wireless device automatically sending the outgoing message to the recipient's mobile wireless device at the numeric destination address via the SMS bearer.