Patent ID: 8554174

Claim:
A text message system comprising: a message processor operable to provide normal First Delivery Attempt (FDA) processing for text messages handled by a mobile network; the message processor is further operable to detect a triggering event which represents high traffic volume in the mobile network, to interrupt normal FDA processing responsive to the triggering event, and to selectively apply FDA processing on subsequent text messages for a time period to reduce the number of text messages that are delivered using FDA processing and to offload some of the text messages from FDA processing to store-and-forward processing; while selective FDA processing applies, for each text message that is received during the time period, the message processor is further operable to: determine whether the text message is authorized for FDA processing, forward the text message to an FDA system for FDA processing responsive to a determination that the text message is authorized, and forward the text message to a store-and-forward system for store-and-forward processing responsive to a determination that the text message is not authorized.