Alcatel-lucent USA Inc.

Randy Honggang Yang

Yigang Cai

Sanjeev Singh

Li Chun Zhang

Donna L McGreal

Spam filtering methods and systems are provided for filtering spam SMS SMPP messages from an ESME to an SMSC associated with a wireless network, in which an anti-spam application receives SMPP SMS messages from the ESME and performs spam filtering prior to providing SMPP messages to the wireless network, with good messages being forwarded to the SMSC of the network and spam messages being discarded or persisted.

SMPP message processing for SMS spam filtering

Methods and systems are presented for filtering spam MAP SMS messages in an SS7 network, including mobile originated and mobile terminated MAP SMS messaging to mitigate spam-related traffic in the SS7 network. The system includes an anti-spam application () running on one or more network servers () that receives the MAP messages before routing to any SMSC or MSC, and classify these as spam or good. The good MAP SMS messages are then provided to the corresponding destinations by appropriate SMSC or MSC in the SS7 network, while the spam MAP SMS messages are not delivered to the SMSC.

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Qingdao, China

Randy Honggang Yang