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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2011
Applicants:
Jeffrey S. Skelton, Perrineville, NJ (US);
Benjamin Hirsch, Raanana, IL;
Yitzchak Wurtzel, Ramat Beit Shemesh, IL;
Inventors:
Jeffrey S. Skelton, Perrineville, NJ (US);
Benjamin Hirsch, Raanana, IL;
Yitzchak Wurtzel, Ramat Beit Shemesh, IL;
Assignee:
IDT Corporation, Newark, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a system and method for communicating using SMS messages between devices in different home networks, and, in one embodiment, to a method and system for assigning a local SMS number to a recipient device in a different home network such that a user is charged reduced communications costs.