Patent ID: 8805424

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by one or more devices, a short message service (SMS) message formatted for a voice network; determining, by the one or more devices and at a first time, if a wireless data network connection is established; establishing, by the one or more devices and based on receiving the SMS message and determining that the wireless data network connection is not established, a wireless data session with a wireless data network; verifying, by the one or more devices and at a second time, that the wireless data network connection is established, based on establishing the wireless data session, the second time occurring after the first time; encapsulating, by the one or more devices and based on verifying that the wireless data network connection is established, the received SMS message in a data message to form a data SMS message for transmission over the wireless data network; and transmitting, by the one or more devices, the data SMS message using the wireless data network.