System for interconnecting a remote server with a short message server centre (SMSC) via the internet

Abstract

It allows the transmission of short messages (SMS) between a remote server ( 1 ) and a mobile telephone user ( 7 ), that is in communication with a short message service centre ( 5 ) via GSM network 10 . It is characterized in that remote server ( 1 ) communicates with the short message server ( 5 ) via a hypertext transfer protocol (http), for which both server ( 5 ) and remote server ( 1 ) have means of bi-directional transmission/reception ( 2, 3, 8 and 9 ) of the short message via the Internet protocol (http).

1 . SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTING A REMOTE SERVER WITH A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTRE (SMSC) THROUGH INTERNET, which allows short messages (SMSC) to be sent between a remote server ( 1 ) and a mobile telephone user ( 7 ), which is in communication with a short message service centre ( 5 ) (SMSC) on a GSM network ( 10 ), characterized in that remote server ( 1 ) communicates with the SMSC ( 5 ) via an internet hypertext transfer protocol (http), for which both the SMSC ( 5 ) and remote server ( 1 ) have means ( 2 ,  3 ,  8 ,  9 ) of bi-directional transmission/reception of short messages via the protocol (http).  
     
     
         2 . SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTING A REMOTE SERVER WITH A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTRE (SMSC) THROUGH INTERNET, according to  claim 1 , characterized in that the transmission/reception is defined by a client module ( 2 ,  8 ) and by a server module ( 3 ,  9 ), client modules ( 2 ,  8 ) comprising an SMS-http message composition block ( 59 ) which composes short messages adapted for their transmission via the Internet http protocol, also having a block for transmission of SMS-http messages ( 64 ) to server module ( 3 ,  9 ) to which it is desired to send them; and server modules ( 3 ,  8 ) comprising an SMS-http message reception block ( 29 ) and a data analysis block ( 30 ) which has access to a database ( 32 ) to verify the data of originator, addressee of the message and access code, and as a function of this verfifcation it generates a return code ( 23 ) signaling data correct or data errored.  
     
     
         3 . SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTING A REMOTE SERVER WITH A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTRE (SMSC) THROUGH INTERNET, according to  claim 2 , characterized in that server module ( 9 ) of the SMSC ( 5 ) comprises a composition block of SMS messages proper ( 33 ) which composes said SMS message from the SMS-http message.  
     
     
         4 . SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTING A REMOTE SERVER WITH A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTRE (SMSC) THROUGH INTERNET, according to  claim 1 , characterized in that client modules ( 2 ,  8 ) comprise means ( 35 ) of calculating HASH security functions ( 63 ); and in that the server modules ( 3 ,  9 ) comprise means of confirming the HASH security functions ( 35 ); in order to generate a return code ( 27 ) which enables or denies a connection as a function of the HASH sent and obtained.  
     
     
         5 . SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTING A REMOTE SERVER WITH A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTRE (SMSC) THROUGH INTERNET, according to  claim 1 , characterized in that client modules ( 2 ,  8 ) have encoding means ( 62 ) and server modules ( 3 ,  9 ) have decoding means ( 34 ), to allow more characters and symbols to be sent/received.  
     
     
         6 . SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTING A REMOTE SERVER WITH A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTRE (SMSC) THROUGH INTERNET, according to  claim 5 , characterized in that the encoding ( 63 ) and decoding ( 35 ) means, perform base 64  encoding/decoding.  
     
     
         7 . SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTING A REMOTE SERVER WITH A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTRE (SMSC) THROUGH INTERNET, according to  claim 3 , characterized in that SMS composition block ( 33 ) of the server module of the SMSC ( 5 ) has means of translating from the SMS-http message to GSM characters, prior to composing the SMS message, to allow this to be sent via the GSM network.  
     
     
         8 . SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTING A REMOTE SERVER WITH A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTRE (SMSC) THROUGH INTERNET, according to  claim 1 , characterized in that client modules ( 2 ,  8 ) have means of segmentation of the information in order to send longer messages.  
     
     
         9 . SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTING A REMOTE SERVER WITH A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTRE (SMSC) THROUGH INTERNET, according to  claim 8 , characterized in that the means of segmentation of client module ( 2 ,  8 ) are foreseen in message composition block ( 59 ).  
     
     
         10 . SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTING A REMOTE SERVER WITH A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTRE (SMSC) THROUGH INTERNET, according to  claim 1 , characterized in that server modules ( 3 ,  9 ) have means of segmentation of the information in order to send longer messages.  
     
     
         11 . SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTING A REMOTE SERVER WITH A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTRE (SMSC) THROUGH INTERNET, according to  claim 10 , characterized in that the means of segmentation of server module ( 3 ,  9 ) are foreseen in message composition block SMS ( 33 ).  
     
     
         12 . SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTING A REMOTE SERVER WITH A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTRE (SMSC) THROUGH INTERNET, according to  claim 1 , characterized in that mandatory and optional parameters of the short messages are sent.  
     
     
         13 . SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTING A REMOTE SERVER WITH A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTRE (SMSC) THROUGH INTERNET, according to  claim 12 , characterized in that short message composition block ( 33 ) of server module ( 3 ,  9 ) has means for recovery of the mandatory and optional parameters, and in the event that the optional parameters are omitted it inserts default values.  
     
     
         14 . SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTING A REMOTE SERVER WITH A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTRE (SMSC) THROUGH INTERNET, according to  claim 1 , characterized in that client modules ( 2 ,  8 ) have means of generating acknowledgement of receipt, which are sent through message transmission block ( 64 ) to the corresponding server module ( 3 ,  9 ) and in that client modules ( 2 ,  8 ) also have means of transmitting the result of the acknowledgement of receipt to server module ( 3 ,  9 ) of client module ( 2 ,  8 ) that generated the acknowledgement of receipt in the first instance.  
     
     
         15 . SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTING A REMOTE SERVER WITH A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTRE (SMSC) THROUGH INTERNET, according to claims  3 ,  4  or  14 , characterized in that server modules ( 3 ,  9 ) have a return code transmission block ( 37 ) to indicate that the transmission has been correct or has been errored; and in this last case to identify the type of error produced; and in that client modules ( 2 ,  8 ) have a return code reception block ( 58 ).  
     
     
         16 . SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTING A REMOTE SERVER WITH A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTRE (SMSC) THROUGH INTERNET, according to  claim 1 , characterized in that means of reattempting transmission of failed messages a certain number of times have been foreseen and of reattempting transmission of acknowledgement of receipt messages a certain number of times.  
     
     
         17 . SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTING A REMOTE SERVER WITH A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTRE (SMEC) THROUGH INTERNET, according to  claim 1 , characterized in that the SMS is sent from remote server ( 1 ) to the mobile telephone user ( 7 ) and/or from the mobile telephone user ( 7 ) to remote server ( 1 ).  
     
     
         18 . SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTING A REMOTE SERVER WITH A SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTRE (SMSC) THROUGH INTERNET, according to  claim 1 , characterized in that client module ( 8 ) and server module ( 9 ) of the operator of the mobile telephony network ( 6 ) have means of simultaneous communication with a plurality of remote servers ( 1 ), to furnish simultaneous connection to a mobile telephone user ( 7 ) with a plurality of remote servers ( 1 ).