Patent ID: 7113800

Claim:
In a method for routing a short message into a data network in a telecommunication system that includes a mobile communication network to which the data network is connected, a telecommunication terminal connected to the mobile communication network, and a first short message service center connected to the mobile communication network and defined in the telecommunication terminal for use by the telecommunication terminal in connection with short messaging, and wherein a short message addressed to a predetermined destination number is routed from the telecommunication terminal to the first short message service center, a mobile switching center in a numerical range of the mobile communication network is determined from the predetermined destination number of the addressed short message, and the short message is routed in Mobile Terminated format from the first short message service center to the predetermined destination number, the improvement comprising the steps of: routing the short message from the first short message service center to a converter component based on the predetermined destination number which refers to the converter component and which is in the numerical range of the mobile communication network; converting, in the converter component, the predetermined destination number of the short message into a second destination number that refers to the data network; and routing the short message from the converter component into the data network.