Patent ID: 7464178
Filing Date: 2008-12-09
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A messaging gateway comprising: a network node layer including modular network nodes for interfacing with mobile devices of a plurality of different communication standards to receive content or service requests from the mobile devices and to route responses to the mobile devices; a gateway node layer including modular gateway nodes for routing the requests and the responses and for modifying the requests and responses according to device technology and content attributes; an application access node layer including modular application access nodes for accessing content servers and application servers; an API framework for creating network, gateway, and access nodes; and wherein the network nodes: wherein the gateway nodes provide a series of configurable routing, validation, and filtering functions that provide content and routing management of messaging traffic that passes through the gateway node layer, and in which the service provided by the gateway node layer is determined by a path taken through said gateway nodes, and in which: the gateway nodes include database gateway nodes for accessing a database.