Patent ID: 7965662

Claim:
A system, comprising: a first system having a first structure for messaging service messages; a second system having a second structure for the messages; and a server via which a message is transmitted from the first system to the second system, wherein the server is configured to utilize a bearer independent protocol in the transmission of the message from the first system to the second system, said bearer independent protocol being above a bearer protocol in a protocol stack, the system comprises another server configured to utilize a bearer independent protocol to transmit the message, wherein one of the servers is a first server via which the message is transmitted from a sender in the first system to the second system and the other server is a second server via which the message is transmitted from the first system towards a receiver in the second system, the first server is configured, in response to receiving the message having the first structure, to convert the message to have a structure according to the bearer independent protocol, and to send the converted message to the second server, and the second server is configured, in response to receiving the message having a structure according to the bearer independent protocol, to convert the message to have the second structure before forwarding the message to the receiver.