Patent ID: 7024199

Claim:
A system enabling a first device operatively communicable with at least a primary wireless network to transmit a device query to a wireless device operatively communicable with the primary wireless network and at least a secondary wireless network, said system comprising: a primary wireless network comprising a routing switch for: a) receiving the wireless device query; b) retrieving a profile of the wireless device comprising network data pertaining to at least the primary wireless network and the secondary wireless network with which the wireless device is communicable; c) determining whether the wireless device last used the primary or secondary wireless network; d) adding a radio frequency header to the query in accordance with the last used network as determined in said part c); e) transmitting the query to the wireless device in the network as determined in said part c); f) adding, after a predetermined number of transmission attempts to the primary network, a transmission header in accordance with a communication protocol used by at least one of the primary and secondary wireless network to which the query has not yet been transmitted; g) transmitting the query to the wireless device in network as determined in said part f); and a switch operatively communicable with the secondary wireless network for receiving the query and at least a portion of the message transmission header transmitted by said routing switch, transmitting the query and the message transmission header to the wireless device via the secondary wireless network, and transmitting a query response from the wireless device to the first device.