Telecommunication Systems, Inc.

Mike Dewey

Carle S Johnson, Jr

Nikhil Bhadange

Carl S Johnson

Wireless carrier networks can utilize multiple MMSCs all accessed by a message sender with a message addressed to a single Internet domain, providing a single point of entry for messages into the network of MMSCs and maintaining routing information sufficient to route messages to all subscribers via the MMSC.

Gateway application to support use of a single internet address domain for routing messages to multiple multimedia message service centers

A multimedia messaging service (MMS) intelligent content evaluator gateway is provided to allow use of a single address mailbox and Internet domain for receipt of either an MMS or an SMS message. The MMS intelligent content evaluator gateway evaluates the content of a received message, and then forwards the same to the appropriate system for delivery. The MMS intelligent content evaluator gateway makes use of database tables containing subscriber information and message routing tables necessary to derive the MMS and SMS destination addresses for each subscriber or range of subscriber addresses. Tables may also be implemented indicating the capabilities of each subscriber's handset, such as whether or not the handset can support MMS messages.

Method to qualify multimedia message content to enable use of a single internet address domain to send messages to both short message service centers and multimedia message service centers

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Mike Dewey