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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2013
Filed:
May. 04, 2009
Manjari Asawa, Cupertino, CA (US);
Bradley D. Cooper, Orchard Lake, MI (US);
Manjari Asawa, Cupertino, CA (US);
Bradley D. Cooper, Orchard Lake, MI (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A messaging system for a wireless network may be constructed using a gateway architecture in which a number of messaging servers are connected to external networks through the gateway. In one implementation, a method implemented in the system may include receiving a message that is communicated as part of a messaging protocol for delivering text or multimedia messages to user devices and altering the message to include a billing identifier describing how the message should be billed. The message may be altered by the gateway and may be transmitted to a messaging server for extraction of the billing information.