Patent ID: 7962160

Claim:
A method for getting user equipment information through short messages, comprising: receiving, by a short message service center, a request message for inquiring current state information of a user equipment from a third party service equipment; sending, by the short message service center, a get routing message to a Home Location Register (HLR) to get the current state information of the user equipment; receiving, by the short message service center, a get routing message response from the HLR, the get routing message response containing the current state information of the user equipment; sending, by the short message service center, a delivery message to the user equipment via a Mobile Switching Center (MSC); receiving, by the short message service center, a delivery message response containing the current state information of the user equipment from the user equipment via the MSC; comparing, by the short message service center, the current state information contained in the get routing message response received from the HLR with the current state information contained in the delivery message response received from the user equipment to obtain the latest state information of the user equipment; and responding, by the short message service center, to the third party service equipment with the latest state information of the user equipment.