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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2007
Jiuhe Gan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Tong Zhu, Fremont, CA (US);
Kenneth Tsz Ho, Belmont, CA (US);
Zhaowei Charlie Jiang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Venkata Narasimha Rao Yerubandi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jiuhe Gan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Tong Zhu, Fremont, CA (US);
Kenneth Tsz Ho, Belmont, CA (US);
Zhaowei Charlie Jiang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Venkata Narasimha Rao Yerubandi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, apparatus, and method are directed towards managing short code allocation policies across a plurality of different carriers for multiple applications. Each carrier provides to a centralized routing service a short code policy that includes an extension allocation policy. The extension allocation policy may specify whether the extensions are allocated based on a dynamical recycle allocation, a range recycle allocation, a pass-through allocation, or a re-usekey based allocation policy, or other mechanism. When a message is sent from an application, a carrier is determined to send the message to a destination mobile device. The carrier's short code policy, including the extension allocation policy, is then used to select how to allocate and/or re-allocate a short code and extension for use with the message. The message may then be modified to include the selected short code and extension, and is then sent using the determined network carrier.