Patent ID: 8260743
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: specifying for an application server a geographical area and at least one message for delivery to at least one subscriber in said geographic area; translating the geographical area to a first cell set; performing a search in a database server using said first cell set as search criterion, a database associated with said database server determining information on at least one subscriber in the area of at least one cell in said first cell set; in response to the search, forming a list of subscriber identities within said first cell set and establishing monitoring associated with the first cell set, the monitoring checking each subsequent location update received against a triggering rule and determining whether the subsequent location update is to be added the list of subscriber identities, wherein the triggering rule comprises: the first cell set; the method further comprising: selecting a first subscriber identity from said list of subscriber identities; providing said at least one message and said first subscriber identity from said application server to a first network node, said first subscriber identity being an identifier for routing terminating point-to-point communications; obtaining in said first network node routing information for routing said at least one message to a first subscriber identified with said first subscriber identity; and routing said at least one message to said first subscriber from said first network node using said routing information.