Patent ID: 7171199

Claim:
A system for directing a data message in a hybrid communications network, including a first wireless system and a second wireless system, the system comprising: a central database, independent of the first and second wireless system, the central database configured to send update information to update a user profile in the first wireless system in response to service for a mobile station being transferred from the first wireless system to the second wireless system, the user profile being updated to indicate that data messaging services are being provided to the mobile station by the second wireless system based on received transfer information, the transfer information including deregistration information from the first wireless system, wherein the first wireless system is one of a private and a public wireless system, and if the first wireless system is a private wireless system, the second wireless system is a public wireless system, and if the first wireless system is a public wireless system, the second wireless system is a private wireless system; and a service node for directing a data message for a mobile station through the second wireless system, as facilitated by the updated user profile, to deliver the data message to the mobile station during its operation on the second wireless system.