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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2000
Thomas Cast, Redmond, King County, WA (US);
David Midkiff, Kirkland, King County, WA (US);
Thomas Cast, Redmond, King County, WA (US);
David Midkiff, Kirkland, King County, WA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A system and method is disclosed for providing throttle control in the context of a short message point-to-point gateway. The method enables the control of a message sent from a message source, such as an external source message entity (ESME) to a message-receiving device such as a mobile phone. The method comprises transmitting a data unit associated with the message from the message source to the gateway, determining whether the message source has exceeded a threshold value associated with sending messages and transmitting a response signal from the gateway to the message source indicating an error if the message source has exceeded the threshold value. In this manner, throttle control occurs on an ESME-by-ESME basis, rather than in the aggregate.