Home zone determination for electronic messaging services

A technology of electronic messaging and message delivery, which is applied in the field of communication networks and can solve problems such as uniform rate of message delivery services

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-11-21
LUCENT TECH INC
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[0005] One problem with many SMS messaging services and MMS messaging services is that the messaging services are billed at a flat rate

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[0021] Figure 1-8 And the following description describes specific embodiments of the invention to teach those skilled in the art how to make and use the invention. In order to teach the principles of the invention, some conventional aspects of the invention have been simplified or omitted. Variations from these embodiments that fall within the scope of the invention will be appreciated by those skilled in the art. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the features described hereinafter can be combined in various ways to form multiple variations of the invention. As a result, the invention is not to be limited by the specific embodiments described below, but only by the claims and their equivalents.

[0022] figure 1 A communication network 100 is shown in an exemplary embodiment of the invention. Communication network 100 may represent a wireline network, an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network, a packet-based network (IP network), a wireless network, or other t...

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Systems and methods are disclosed that determine whether a sender / recipient using an electronic messaging service (e.g., SMS messaging service or MMS messaging service) is located in a defined home zone. A communication network in one embodiment includes a messaging system, such as an SMSC or an MMSC, and a home zone system. If the messaging system receives an electronic message from a sender to a recipient, then the home zone system determines a location of the sender / recipient. The home zone system also determines whether the sender / recipient is located in a home zone. If the home zone system determines that the sender / recipient is located in a home zone, then the messaging system forwards the electronic message to the recipient. If the home zone system determines that the sender / recipient is not located in the home zone, then the messaging system blocks the electronic message.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the field of communication networks, and in particular to providing a system for determining whether a sender and / or a recipient of an electronic message, such as an SMS message or an MMS message, is located in a home zone defined for the sender and / or recipient and methods. Background technique [0002] Some service providers rate prepaid and postpaid calls according to the location of the called party. Such ratings are typically based on home zones defined by the service provider. The service provider maps specific geographic areas into calling areas and defines which calling area contains a particular party's home zone. A home zone comprises an area of ​​the network where call billing is treated differently than billing outside the home zone. If the called party is located in the home zone, calls to the called party include local calls and are billed accordingly. If the called party is not located in the home zon...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): H04W4/02H04W4/14H04W4/24
CPCH04L12/1485H04W4/02H04W4/24H04L12/14H04W4/14
Inventor Y·蔡A·沙马
Owner LUCENT TECH INC
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