SMS Delivery Confirmation via Secondary IP Signaling Layer
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing SMS delivery systems lack reliable confirmation of successful message delivery to intended recipients, leading to inefficiencies and financial losses in the $70 billion A2P industry, where unscrupulous providers may intentionally 'kill' a percentage of messages without detection due to inadequate auditing and tracing mechanisms.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a secondary communication arrangement in tandem with the primary SMS system to transcode SMS messages into IP data packets, enabling secure and auditable confirmation of message receipt through a signaling layer that creates a secure communication tunnel across nodes, using encryption and authentication to ensure message delivery confirmation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a primary SMS communication arrangement is used, then message transmission is achieved, but delivery confirmation and auditing capability are lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a secondary communication arrangement as an intermediary system between the SMS sender and recipient. This mediator captures signaling events from the primary SMS system, transcodes them into IP data packets, and delivers them through an alternative path that includes confirmation capability. The intermediary layer preserves the original SMS functionality while adding the missing delivery confirmation feature.
Solution Approach 2:
The communication system is segmented into two independent layers: the primary SMS communication arrangement for message transmission, and the secondary communication arrangement for delivery confirmation. This segmentation allows each layer to operate independently with optimized functions, where the secondary layer specifically addresses the delivery confirmation need without interfering with the primary SMS protocol.
2Adaptability or versatility
If SMS messages are sent through multiple commercial companies, then message routing flexibility is improved, but tracking and auditing capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The secondary communication arrangement implements a feedback mechanism that captures signaling events from each node in the SMS transmission path and relays confirmation information back to the originating device. This feedback loop enables end-to-end tracking across multiple commercial companies, providing visibility into message delivery status despite the complex routing through various providers.
3Reliability
If delivery confirmation mechanisms are added to SMS system, then auditing capability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
By introducing the secondary communication arrangement as an intermediary, the patent adds auditing capability without significantly complicating the core SMS system. The intermediary layer handles the complexity of confirmation tracking, encoding signaling events into IP packets, and managing the feedback loop, thereby isolating the complexity from the primary SMS infrastructure.
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AI summary
A data communication system, when in operation, sends conventional short messaging service ("SMS") communications to one or more devices via a primary communication arrangement. The data communication system optionally supports, in operation, data communication therethrough using Internet Protocol TCP/IP. A given device and/or the data communication system includes at least one signaling layer of a secondary communication arrangement through which is communicated a confirmation of a given signaling event delivering an SMS to the given device via use of the primary communication arrangement has been successfully executed, wherein the confirmation is used to make an execution of the given signaling event auditable and traceable., wherein the second communication arrangement is implemented using at least one of: TCP/IP protocol, an OEM communication protocol. Beneficially, the data communication system allows an original communication network, for SMS communication purposes, to be bypassed, thereby saving costs when devices are used in a roaming mode in various national and regional jurisdictions.