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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2007
Blaine E. Smith, Overland Park, KS (US);
Rachel S. Downtain, Overland Park, KS (US);
Robert J. Morrill, Overland Park, KS (US);
Blaine E. Smith, Overland Park, KS (US);
Rachel S. Downtain, Overland Park, KS (US);
Robert J. Morrill, Overland Park, KS (US);
Embarq Holdings Company, LLC, Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A computing system configured to receive an SMS message generated by a wireless device and include an indicia of an address, such as a telephone number, associated with a destination wireline device (e.g., telephone). The computing system may be configured to access a database located on a network and to store parameters defining type and usage of blocks of address identifiers (e.g., NPA-NXX block of telephone numbers). The computing system may further be configured to determine whether type and usage parameters associated with the destination wireline device are within a block of address identifiers defined to share communications between wireless and wireline networks. The computing system may further route the SMS message to the destination wireline device in response to determining that the type and usage parameters enable sharing between wireless and wireline networks.