Enabling retrieval of a mobile messaging service message from multiple devices associated with a single mobile directory number

US8331963B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless · US

Inventors

• Zhijian Lin · Dublin, US
• Amir Mayblum · Walnut Creek, US
• Ning-Chia Yeh · Dublin, US
• Chong Wang · Redmond, US
• Heather Lynne Goodson · Lafayette, US
• Jerry Kupsh · Concord, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 4, 2012
• Grant date: Dec 11, 2012
• Expiry date: Jan 4, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L51/56
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method that enables provisioning of mobile station messages to multiple devices associated with the sender and/or receiver includes receiving, at a mobile messaging service center, a mobile messaging service message; identifying a destination mobile station associated with the received message, the destination mobile station having a Mobile Directory Number and corresponding to a primary device of a customer of a mobile communication network provider; and delivering, through a mobile communication network, the received message to the primary device of the customer. The method also includes steps of determining whether the customer subscribes to a Messaging Anywhere (MA) service; upon determination that the customer subscribers to the MA service, delivering, from the mobile messaging service center, a copy of the received message to an MA server; and delivering, from the MA server, the message to a secondary device previously identified by the customer.