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Patent US7889716 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for using an E.164 number ... - Google Patents
Methods, systems, and computer program products for using an E.164 number (ENUM) database for message service message routing resolution among 2G and subsequent generation network systems are disclosed. According to one method, a message including message service message content is received. The message...http://www.google.com/patents/US7889716?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7889716 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for using an E.164 number (ENUM) database for message service message routing resolution among 2G and subsequent generation network systems
Publication number US7889716 B2
Application number US 11/291,502
Also published as CN101385287A, CN101385287B, EP1958399A2, EP1958399A4, EP1958399B1, US20070133574, WO2007064943A2, WO2007064943A3
Publication number 11291502, 291502, US 7889716 B2, US 7889716B2, US-B2-7889716, US7889716 B2, US7889716B2
Inventors Aziz A. Tejani, Apirux Bantukul, Peter J. Marsico
Patent Citations (228), Non-Patent Citations (141), Referenced by (35), Classifications (13), Legal Events (5)
Methods, systems, and computer program products for using an E.164 number (ENUM) database for message service message routing resolution among 2G and subsequent generation network systems
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International Classification H04L12/66, H04L12/26
Cooperative Classification H04W8/26, H04L61/106, H04L61/1511, H04L29/12066, H04W92/02, H04W4/12
European Classification H04L29/12A2A1, H04L61/10B, H04L61/15A1