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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
May. 01, 2015
Applicants:
Dennis Meyer, Annapolis, MD (US);
Lewis Tuttle, Queens Town, MD (US);
Inventors:
Dennis Meyer, Annapolis, MD (US);
Lewis Tuttle, Queens Town, MD (US);
Assignee:
Telecommunication Systems, Inc., Annapolis, MD (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/14 (2009.01); H04W 4/18 (2009.01); H04M 1/725 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/14 (2013.01); H04M 1/72552 (2013.01); H04W 4/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
A Short Message Serving System (SMSC) can be configured to determine a format of a short service message (SMS) message with a read acknowledgement request. The SMSC can also be configured to generate a Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) multi-segment short message that includes user data from the SMS message and comprises a plurality of ordered segments. The GSM multi-segment short message can include a read acknowledgement request.