Inter-Partner Messaging Routing for Cross-Service Interoperability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing messaging services from Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and Internet companies operate independently, limiting cross-service communication, especially for features like message attachments, delivery receipts, and read receipts, with users often restricted to their own ecosystems.
Innovation Solution
A system enabling inter-partner messaging through user identification, routing target resolution, and IMS core routing, using NAPTR and SRV records to facilitate communication between MNOs and internet-based messaging services, allowing for standardized communication protocols like SIP and HTTP for message delivery and file transfer.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If messaging services operate independently within their own ecosystems, then service reliability is maintained, but communication versatility between different platforms is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an inter-partner messaging service as an intermediary layer between mobile network operators and internet-based messaging services. This mediator translates messages between different protocols and formats, enabling cross-platform communication without requiring changes to the underlying independent messaging systems. The intermediary handles protocol conversion, routing decisions, and format translation, thus maintaining service independence while achieving communication versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The inter-partner messaging service is designed with universal functionality to handle multiple messaging protocols and formats simultaneously. It can process SMS, MMS, instant messaging, and other message types through a unified interface, allowing a single system to perform multiple communication functions across different platforms without requiring separate specialized systems for each message type.
2Reliability
If messaging services use proprietary formats, then service reliability is improved, but interoperability between services deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs parameter changes by transforming message parameters between different formats. The inter-partner messaging service modifies message parameters such as protocol type, encoding format, routing information, and header structure to adapt messages from one service format to another. This allows the system to maintain the reliability of proprietary formats while achieving interoperability through dynamic parameter transformation.
3Adaptability or versatility
If cross-platform messaging is enabled, then communication versatility is improved, but message format compatibility problems arise
Solution Approach 1:
The format translation capability acts as a mediator between different message formats. It receives messages in various proprietary formats, validates and standardizes them according to the inter-partner messaging service specifications, and then translates them into the appropriate format for the target platform. This ensures format compatibility while maintaining the ability to communicate across diverse platforms.
4Reliability
If independent messaging ecosystems are maintained, then service stability is improved, but user communication capability across platforms is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The inter-partner messaging service enables self-service communication across platforms by automatically handling protocol conversion, routing, and format translation without requiring user intervention. Users can communicate across different messaging ecosystems using their familiar interfaces and protocols, while the system autonomously manages the complexity of cross-platform compatibility, thus maintaining service stability while improving ease of operation.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying, at an originating network, a recipient of a message at a terminating network, communicating a query message from the originating network to a domain name service, the query message including a query message service identifier for an inter-partner messaging service, receiving, at the originating network, a response message, the response message including a response message service identifier for the inter-partner messaging service, the response message including addressing information for communicating the message to the terminating network, formatting the message, and transmitting the message from the originating network to the terminating network based on the addressing information. Other embodiments are disclosed.