Patent ID: 8774783

Claim:
Within a messaging ecosystem entity a server-based method for accessing a descriptor of a wireless device, the server-based method comprising: receiving at a gateway a descriptor request message from a requestor, the descriptor request message including at least an address of the wireless device; performing one or more processing steps on the descriptor request message including at least querying, based on the address, a local descriptor repository yielding a retrieved descriptor, the retrieved descriptor comprising characteristics of the wireless device, wherein the local descriptor repository is populated, at least in part, via a query to a wireless carrier that services the wireless device; generating a descriptor response message, the descriptor response message including at least aspects of the retrieved descriptor; returning by the gateway the descriptor response message to the requestor entering the descriptor request message into a database, the database storing a plurality of request messages; generating a report comprising selected details of the plurality of request messages from the database; and delivering the report to at least the requestor.