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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2012
Piyush Upadhyay, Overland Park, KS (US);
Patrick David Wilson, Denver, CO (US);
William James Routt, Leawood, KS (US);
Piyush Upadhyay, Overland Park, KS (US);
Patrick David Wilson, Denver, CO (US);
William James Routt, Leawood, KS (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
Embodiments relate to suppressing Short Message Service (SMS) communications from a Short Message peer-to-peer (SMPP) client. A selected response algorithm is provided to the SMPP client from a server. A threshold of undesired SMS communications are detected from a SPAM originator that is communicated to the server by way of the SMPP client. A challenge is communicated to the SMPP client from the server. When a challenge response is not received at the server, communications received from the SMPP client are throttled. When the challenge response is received at the server and the challenge response is incorrect, communications received from the SMPP client are also throttled. When the received challenge response is correct, a SPAM originator source identifier is communicated to the SMPP client in order for the SMPP client to throttle communications received from the SPAM originator.