Patent ID: 8046011

Claim:
A system for delivering SMS messages between wireless and wireline devices, the system comprising: a computing system configured to: receive an SMS message generated by a wireless device and including a telephone number associated with a destination wireline device; access a database, located on a network between wireless networks and wireline networks and accessible through a short message service center/media gateway (SMSC/MG) utilized to perform address translation for received SMS messages, the database being configured to store parameters defining type and usage of numbers blocks of telephone numbers; look-up, in the database, a type parameter associated with a numbers block of telephone numbers in which a telephone number associated with the destination wireline device is located; look-up, in the database, a usage parameter associated with the numbers block of telephone numbers in which the telephone number associated with the destination wireline device is located; determine whether the combined type and usage parameters associated with the destination wireline device is within the numbers block of telephone numbers defined to share communications between the wireless and wireline networks; and route the SMS message to the destination wireline device in response to determining that the combined type and usage parameters associated with the numbers block of telephone numbers in which the telephone number associated with the destination wireline device enable sharing between the wireless and wireline networks.