Patent ID: 8874784

Claim:
A method for controlling the delivery of a social networking service originated message directed to a mobile device, the method comprising: at a DIAMETER based routing node: intercepting a mobility management message that includes location information associated with a mobile device, wherein the mobility management message includes a DIAMETER UpdateLocation request message directed to a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) from a mobility management entity (MME) serving the mobile device; storing the location information associated with the mobile device in a location database, wherein the location information is extracted from the DIAMETER UpdateLocation request message by the DIAMETER based routing node; receiving a social networking service originated message directed to the mobile device, wherein the social networking service originated message includes media content and is generated by a social networking service server; extracting the location information associated with the mobile device from the location database; and delivering the media content to the mobile device using the extracted location information from the location database and without querying the HSS.