Patent ID: 8090856

Claim:
A method for supporting a communications network, comprising: establishing communications between a physical messaging network server and a wireless device utilizing a hybrid User Datagram Protocol (UDP) connectionless transport protocol comprised of a transport layer corresponding to a transport layer of an Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, said UDP transport layer being modified to detect at least one of a duplicate message and a duplicate segmented message while requiring less overhead than is required by Transport Control Protocol (TCP) protocol; detecting said at least one of duplicate message and duplicate segmented message using a peer wireless protocol layer; and discarding said at least one of duplicate message and duplicate segmented message, in response to said detection of said at least one of duplicate message and duplicate segmented message with said transport layer of said hybrid UDP connectionless transport protocol; wherein said at least one of duplicate message and duplicate segmented message received from said wireless device is acknowledged back to said wireless device to said peer wireless protocol layer, discarded, and conditionally logged.