CN1331368C - Network saving short message method - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to the technical field of mobile communication short messages, and discloses a method for storing short messages in a network. The short message storage center and short message configuration information are configured in the network, and the network judges whether the short messages sent or received by users need The message is stored in the short message storage center and processed accordingly; the invention also discloses another method for storing short messages. The short message storage center is configured in the network, and the user can also save the short messages stored on the mobile terminal to the short message The message storage center, which satisfies the user's need for long-term storage of some useful short messages, thereby solving the problem of being unable to store short messages on the terminal for a long time due to terminal replacement or insufficient storage space of the terminal or terminal failure.

Description

A Method for Preserving Short Messages in Network

technical field

The invention relates to short message technology of mobile communication, in particular to a method for storing short messages.

Background technique

In recent years, with the development of communication technology, various value-added services, especially message services, have achieved tremendous development in the world. Message services include various types, such as Short Messaging Service (SMS), Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS), Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), Instant Messaging (IM), etc. , most message services are non-real-time store-and-forward services. Message service has become one of the most important ways for value-added service providers to provide services to users, such as sending user-booked weather information, securities information, sports news and so on.

At present, the application of message service includes: message transmission between user terminals; message transmission between application server and user terminal, application server includes value-added service provider and communication operator's server, and personal user computer.

Figure 1 is a general network framework for message services. For different types of message services and different communication systems, there are three situations: A. The message passes from the sender to the message center where the sender belongs through the network device, and then passes through the network device of the receiver Arrive at the receiving terminal; B. The message goes from the sender to the message center to which the sender belongs through the network device, then to the message center to which the receiver belongs, and then to the receiving terminal through the network device of the receiver, where the message center to which the sender and the receiver belong It may be the same message center; C. The message travels from the sender to the receiver's home message center through the network device, and then reaches the receiving terminal through the receiver's network device. A applies to the short message service and enhanced short message service of the GSM/WCDMA network, B applies to the short message service of the CDMA system, the multimedia message service of the GSM/WCDMA/CDMA system, etc., and C applies to the short message service of the CDMA system. When transmitting messages between the user terminal and the application server, there may be a message gateway between the message center and the server to complete functions such as protocol conversion, routing, billing, and identity verification. Network equipment is generally switching equipment, namely mobile switching center MSC, mobile network service GPRS support node SGSN, fixed network switch, etc., or just some transmission equipment, such as IP routers, etc.

However, for the most widely used short message service (including enhanced short message) in mobile networks and fixed networks, the feature of storing short messages on the network side is not provided at present. When the sending of the short message is unsuccessful due to reasons such as the user being unreachable, the short message center will save the short message, and after receiving the notification that the user is reachable, if the short message center successfully sends the short message to the receiver, the short message center will delete the sent message. A short message of success. For the short message sender and receiver, the sent and received short messages can only be saved on the user terminal, but not in the network. In this way, in some cases such as a terminal failure or a user updating the terminal (including temporary and long-term replacement of the terminal), the short messages stored in the original terminal will be unavailable, which cannot meet the user's long-term storage needs for some useful short messages .

Contents of the invention

In order to meet the user's need for long-term storage of some useful short messages, the invention provides a method for storing short messages in the network, which can store the short messages on the network side.

For realizing this object, the present invention provides following technical scheme:

A method for storing short messages in the network, configuring a short message storage center in the network, and setting short message configuration information in advance, after receiving the short message, the short message center checks the user's short message configuration information, and judges whether there is any short message configuration information in the short message configuration information Preserve the short message requirement, if yes, save the short message in the short message storage center, then send the short message and transfer to the normal connection processing flow, if not, then do not save, directly send the short message and transfer to the normal connection processing flow.

Preferably, the short message configuration information includes: the network saves short messages from a specific sender, the network saves short messages sent to a specific receiver, the network saves short messages sent within a specific time recently, and the network saves short messages sent within a specific time recently Short messages received within a specific period of time, short messages sent by the network within a specific period of time, or short messages received within a specific period of time stored by the network.

Preferably, the method is applied to CDMA short message service, comprising the following steps:

S1 The short message sent by the sender arrives at the sender's home short message center, and the sender's home short message center checks the short message configuration information of the sender to determine whether there is a requirement to save the short message in the short message configuration information of the sender, and if so, Execute step S2; otherwise, execute step S3;

S2 The sender's home short message center saves the short message in the sender's short message storage center, and then executes step S3;

The S3 short message is sent to the receiver's home short message center, and the receiver's home short message center checks the short message configuration information of the receiver, and judges whether there is a requirement to save the short message in the short message configuration information of the receiver, and if so, execute Step S4; otherwise, send the short message to the recipient terminal;

S4 The receiver's home short message center stores the short message in the receiver's short message storage center, and then transmits the short message to the receiver's terminal.

Preferably, it is applied to GSM/WCDMA short message service or enhanced short message service, comprising the following steps:

T1 The sender sends a short message to the sender's home short message center;

T2 sender's home short message center judges whether there is a requirement to save a short message in the short message configuration information of the sender, if yes, execute step T3; otherwise, execute step T4;

T3 the sender's home short message center saves the short message in the sender's short message storage center, and then executes step T4;

T4 sends a short message to the receiving terminal.

Preferably, configuring the configuration information of all users at the sender's home short message center also includes before step T2 or T4, the sender's home short message center checks the receiver's short message configuration information, and judges the short message configuration information Is there any requirement to save short messages in the system? If so, forward the short messages to be saved to the recipient's home short message center through the interface between the short message centers, and then save the short messages in the short message of the recipient's home short message center. storage center.

Preferably, it is applied to CDMA short message service, and includes the following steps:

The sender of U1 sends a short message to the short message home center of the receiver;

U2 receiver's belonging short message center judges whether the short message configuration information of the receiver has the requirement of saving short message, if yes, executes step U3; otherwise, executes step U4;

U2 The receiver's home short message center stores the short message in the receiver's short message storage center, and then executes step U4;

U4 sends the short message to the receiving terminal.

Preferably, the short message configuration information of all users is configured in each short message center, and before step U2 or U4, it also includes that the receiver's home short message center checks the short message configuration information of the sender, and judges that the short message configuration Whether there is a requirement to save the short message in the information, if so, forward the short message to be saved to the sender's home short message center through the interface between the short message centers, and then store the short message in the sender's short message storage center.

A method for storing short messages in a network, configuring a short message storage center in the network, and the storage steps include:

(d1) The user sends a short message storage request to the short message center through the terminal, and the storage request includes the content of the short message;

(d2) The short message center returns a response message to the terminal, including a status indication of success; if successful, the message includes an indication of successful storage; if unsuccessful, the message includes a reason value.

Preferably, the method also includes the following steps:

User A sends an operation request to the short message center through the terminal, and operates the short message stored in the short message storage center;

The short message center of B returns a response message to the terminal, including a status indication of success.

Preferably, the operation request includes a request for querying a short message, a request for deleting a short message, and a request for downloading a short message.

Because the present invention adds a logical entity short message storage center (SMSBOX) in the network, based on the configuration of the operator or the user, or whether the user selects whether to carry out network storage for each short message sent or received, the short message sent or received by the user The short messages are saved in the network, and the user can retrieve and delete the short messages saved in the network through the terminal at any time. When the terminal fails or the user updates the terminal (including temporary and long-term replacement of the terminal), this service enables the user to retrieve the previously sent or received short messages stored in the network, satisfying the long-term storage of some useful short messages by the user requirements; and users can also view, delete, and modify their own short messages saved in the network through a series of interface processes.

Description of drawings

Figure 1 is the short message service network framework. ;

Fig. 2 is an embodiment in the CDMA short message service;

Fig. 3 is an embodiment in GSM/WCMA short message service and enhanced short message service;

Fig. 4 is another embodiment of the present invention in the CDMA short message service;

Fig. 5 stores short message process in SMSBOX for the present invention;

Fig. 6 inquires short message process in SMSBOX among the present invention;

Fig. 7 downloads short message process in SMSBOX among the present invention;

Fig. 8 is the process of deleting short messages in SMSBOX in the present invention.

Detailed ways

In order to make the purpose, technical solution and advantages of the present invention clearer, the present invention will be further described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.

This scheme provides an implementation scheme for storing short messages (including enhanced short messages) in the network, that is, based on the configuration information of the operator or the user, or the user's choice of whether to store each short message sent or received in the network, the user sends Or the received short message is saved in the network, and the user can retrieve and delete the short message saved in the network through the terminal at any time.

A logical entity, SMSBOX, is added to the network. The short message storage center is a newly added logical functional entity in the short message center equipment, or a logical functional entity independent of the short message center. Its main function is to store user sent or For received short messages, the short message center and user terminals need to be enhanced. Through a specific interface process, it is supported to save the short message in the SMSBOX. The terminal obtains the short message attribute list in the SMSBOX, the terminal obtains the content of the short message in the SMSBOX, and deletes the SMSBOX through the terminal. Short and medium messages. The short messages are saved in the SMSBOX of the user's home short message center, and the SMSBOX assigns serial numbers to the short messages saved by each user. If the operator decides to provide the service of storing short messages in the network, all short message centers in the network need to be equipped with SMSBOX.

There are two ways to carry out the network storage short message service: the user actively applies for activation as a paid service; or the operator provides it to all short message users by default as a universal service. For the former, a table needs to be kept in the user's home short message center to record all user IDs who have opened the service, so as to determine whether the user has service authority. As an enhanced feature, operators can allocate different storage spaces of SMSBOX to different users to distinguish different user levels and charge different fees.

In order to achieve the purpose of storing short messages on the network side, operators or users in the network set short message configuration information for storing short messages in the network in advance according to requirements of operators or users. The short message configuration information at least includes: the network saves all short messages sent by a certain user, and the network saves all short messages received by a certain user. Further detailed configuration information may include (but not limited to): the network saves short messages from a specific sender, the network saves short messages sent to a specific receiver, the network saves the short Short messages received within a certain time period, short messages sent by the network within a specified time period, and short messages received within a certain period of time stored by the network.

When the operator sets the network to save short message information, the operator can directly set and save the short message configuration information in the short message center to which the user belongs, and can modify the configuration information in the short message center at any time.

For the situation where the user sets the network to save short message information, the user can set it through terminal operations (such as pressing buttons, selecting menus) or other methods (such as calling the operator's service call, logging into the operator's service website, etc.); The configuration information can be sent to the short message center of the user through various methods (such as short message) and saved; Message center and save. The user can modify the short message configuration information at any time, and it needs to be updated to the short message center to which the user belongs in time.

Different implementation frameworks of the short message service (as shown in Figure 1) will affect the realization of saving short messages in the network. The following three situations will be described.

As shown in Figure 2, be an embodiment of the present invention in the CDMA short message service, specifically comprise the following steps:

Step 201: The short message sent by the sender reaches the sender's home short message center through network equipment;

Step 202: the sender's home short message center checks the short message configuration information of the sender's user;

Step 203: the sender's home short message center judges whether the short message configuration information of the sender user has a requirement to save a short message, if yes, execute step 204; otherwise, execute step 205;

Step 204: The sender's home short message center saves the short message in the sender's SMSBOX, and then executes step 205;

Step 205: the short message is sent to the recipient's home short message center;

Step 206: The recipient's home short message center checks the short message configuration information of the recipient's user;

Step 207: the recipient's home short message center judges whether the short message configuration information of the recipient's user has a requirement to save a short message, if yes, execute step 208; otherwise, execute step 209;

Step 208: The receiver's home short message center saves the short message in the receiver's SMSBOX, and then executes step 209;

Step 209: The short message is sent to the receiver terminal via the network device.

In this short message service framework, since the short message passes both the sender's home short message center and the receiver's home short message center, both the sent and received short messages can be stored in the network.

As shown in Figure 3, an embodiment in GSM/WCMA short message service and enhanced short message service specifically comprises the following steps:

Step 301: The short message sent by the sender reaches the sender's home short message center through the network equipment;

Step 302: the sender's home short message center checks the short message configuration information of the sender's user;

Step 303: the sender's home short message center judges whether the short message configuration information of the sender user has a requirement to save a short message, if yes, execute step 304; otherwise, execute step 305;

Step 304: The sender's home short message center saves the short message in the sender's SMSBOX, and then executes step 305;

Step 305: The short message is sent to the receiver terminal through the network equipment.

Under this service framework, because the short message does not pass through the short message center that the receiver belongs to, the network does not save the short message received by the receiver.

If the network needs to save the short message received by the receiver, the receiver's configuration information (not limited to the sender's user information) can be saved in the sender's home short message center, and the sender's home short message center through which the short message passes can judge the receiver configuration information, if it needs to be saved to the short message center of the receiving party that the short message does not pass through, the short message to be saved will be forwarded to the short message center of the receiving party through the interface between the short message centers, so as to realize the control of sending and receiving All short messages are saved.

As shown in Figure 4, be another embodiment of the present invention in the CDMA short message service, specifically comprise following steps:

Step 401: The short message sent by the sender reaches the receiver's short message home center through the network equipment;

Step 402: The receiver's home short message center checks the short message configuration information of the receiver's user;

Step 403: the recipient's home short message center judges whether the short message configuration information of the recipient's user has a requirement to save a short message, if yes, execute step 404; otherwise, execute step 405;

Step 404: The receiver's home short message center saves the short message in the receiver's SMSBOX, and then executes step 405;

Step 405: The short message is sent to the recipient terminal via the network device.

Under this service framework, since the short message does not pass through the short message center of the sender, the network does not save the short message sent by the sender.

If the network needs to save the short message sent by the sender, the configuration information of the sender (not limited to the user information of the receiver) can be saved in the short message center of the receiver, and the sender can be judged by the short message center of the receiver through which the short message passes. If the configuration information needs to be saved to the short message center of the sending party that the short message does not pass through, the short message to be saved will be forwarded to the sending and sending short message center through the interface between the short message centers, so as to realize the control of sending and receiving All short messages are saved.

Users can also save the sent or received short messages stored on the terminal in the network through certain terminal operations (such as pressing keys and selecting menus). functions provided by the terminal.

The user stores short messages in the SMSBOX through the terminal, and maintains the short messages stored in the SMSBOX, both need to be realized through a message interface between the terminal and the user's home short message center. The interface process at least includes: the process of storing short messages in the SMSBOX, the process of consulting the short messages in the SMSBOX, the process of downloading the short messages in the SMSBOX, and the process of deleting the short messages in the SMSBOX.

As shown in Figure 5, the steps for the user to store the short message in the SMSBOX through the terminal specifically include:

(1) The terminal sends a request to save the short message (SMSBOX_upload.REQ) to the short message center;

The short message request may include short message attributes, such as message sending/receiving time, sender ID, receiver ID, message size, etc., as well as short message content;

(2) The short message center returns an SMSBOX_upload.RES response to the terminal, including a status indication of success; if unsuccessful, the message includes a reason value, such as service not provided, SMSBOX not supported, SMSBOX storage space insufficient, SMSBOX system failure, etc. .

As shown in Figure 6, the user's review of the short message stored on the network side includes the following steps:

(1) The terminal sends a SMSBOX_view.REQ request to the short message center to check the list of short messages in the SMSBOX. You can check the short message attributes, such as message sending/receiving time, sender ID, receiver ID, message size, etc., and you can also check SMSBOX itself information, such as the total number of short messages and the size of SMSBOX space, etc.; you can view some short messages, and you can specify the start message sequence number (SMSBOX allocation) and the number of messages to be consulted at one time; the default is to view all short messages.

(2) The short message center returns an SMSBOX_view.RES response to the terminal. If successful, it returns a list of all or part of the short message attributes in the requested SMSBOX, which may contain the information of the SMSBOX itself; if unsuccessful, the message contains the reason value, such as the service is not provided , No contract information, message error, does not support SMSBOX, SMSBOX system failure, etc.

As shown in Figure 7, downloading the short message stored on the network side specifically includes the following steps:

(1) The terminal sends a SMSBOX download.REQ request to the short message center, including the message sequence number (the sequence number is assigned by the SMSBOX, and the message sequence number of the short message stored in the SMSBOX can be obtained by consulting the SMSBOX);

(2) The short message center returns an SMSBOX download.RES response message to the terminal. If successful, it includes the requested message attributes and message content; Does not provide, does not support SMSBOX, SMSBOX system failure, etc.

As shown in Figure 8, deleting the short message stored on the network side specifically includes the following steps:

(1) The terminal sends a SMSBOX_delete.REQ request to the short message center, including the message serial number (the serial number is allocated by the SMSBOX, and the message serial number of the short message stored in the SMSBOX can be obtained by consulting the SMSBOX);

(2) The short message center returns an SMSBOX_delete.RES response to the terminal, including a status indication of success; if unsuccessful, the message contains a reason value, such as request message error, message sequence number does not exist, service is not provided, SMSBOX, SMSBOX is not supported System failure, etc.

For the interface message interaction between the terminal and the user's home short message center, it is recommended to adopt (but not limited to) the short message bearing method. Due to the limitation of the short message capacity, it is necessary for the terminal and the user's home short message center to support multiple short message content Merging and splitting are performed at the application layer, which is similar to the processing method of enhanced short messages.

The present invention proposes an implementation scheme for saving short messages (including enhanced short messages) in the network, that is, based on the static configuration of the operator or the user, or the user's choice of whether to save the short message in the network for each sent or received short message, the user sends Or the received short message is saved in the network, and the user can retrieve and delete the short message saved in the network through the terminal at any time. When the terminal fails, the terminal storage space is insufficient, or the user updates the terminal (including temporary and long-term replacement of the terminal), this service can enable the user to retrieve the short messages sent or received in the past stored in the network, satisfying the user's usefulness for some users Long-term storage of short messages; and users can also view, delete, and modify their own short messages stored in the network through a series of interface processes. At the same time, operators can provide users with short message backup based on the network. Some users charge a certain fee to increase operating income.

The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of protection of the present invention is not limited thereto. Any person familiar with the technology can easily think of changes or replacements within the technical scope disclosed in the present invention. , should be covered within the protection scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be determined by the protection scope of the claims.

Claims (10)

1, a kind of method of network saving short message, it is characterized in that, configuration short message storage center in the network, and set in advance the short message configuration information, after short message service center receives short message, check user's short message configuration information, judge whether the requirement that saves short message is arranged in the short message configuration information, if, short message is kept in the described short message storage center, and sending SMS message then changes the handling process that normally continues over to, if not, then do not preserve, directly sending SMS message changes the handling process that normally continues over to.

2, the method for network saving short message as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that described short message configuration information comprises: network is preserved short message, network from particular sender and is preserved short message, the network of issuing specific recipient and preserve the short message, the network that send in the nearest special time and preserve the short message, the network that receive in the nearest special time and preserve short message or the network that special time sends in the phase and preserve the short message that special time received in the phase.

3, the method for network saving short message as claimed in claim 1 or 2 is characterized in that described method is applied to the CDMA short message service, comprises following steps:

The S1 short message from sending party arrives transmit leg ownership short message service center, described transmit leg belongs to the short message configuration information that short message service center checks transmit leg, judge in the described short message configuration information of described transmit leg whether the requirement that saves short message is arranged, if, execution in step S2; Otherwise, execution in step S3;

The described transmit leg ownership of S2 short message service center is kept at short message in the transmit leg short message storage center, then execution in step S3;

The S3 short message is sent to the recipient and belongs to short message service center, described recipient belongs to the short message configuration information that short message service center checks the recipient, and judge in described recipient's the described short message configuration information whether the requirement that saves short message is arranged, if, execution in step S4; Otherwise, transmit described short message to receiving side terminal;

The described recipient of S4 belongs to short message service center short message is kept in recipient's short message storage center, transmits described short message then to receiving side terminal.

4, the method for network saving short message as claimed in claim 1 or 2 is characterized in that described method is applied to the GSM/WCDMA short message service or strengthens short message service, comprises following steps:

The T1 transmit leg sends short messages to transmit leg ownership short message service center;

The described transmit leg of T2 belongs to short message service center and judges in the short message configuration information of transmit leg whether the requirement that saves short message is arranged, if, execution in step T3; Otherwise, execution in step T4;

The described transmit leg ownership of T3 short message service center is kept at short message in the transmit leg short message storage center, then execution in step T4;

T4 sends SMS message to receiving side terminal.

5, the method of network saving short message as claimed in claim 4, it is characterized in that disposing all users' configuration information in transmit leg ownership short message service center, before step T2 or before the T4, also comprise, the described transmit leg ownership inspection recipient's of short message service center short message configuration information, judge in the described short message configuration information whether the requirement that saves short message is arranged, if, the short message that will need to preserve by the interface between the short message service center is forwarded to the recipient and belongs to short message service center, and then short message is kept at the short message storage center that described recipient belongs to short message service center.

6, the method for network saving short message as claimed in claim 1 or 2 is characterized in that described method is applied to the CDMA short message service, comprises following steps:

The U1 transmit leg sends short messages to recipient's short message ownership center;

The described recipient of U2 belongs to short message service center and judges whether recipient's short message configuration information has the requirement that saves short message, if, execution in step U3; Otherwise, execution in step U4;

The described recipient of U3 belongs to short message service center short message is kept in recipient's short message storage center, then execution in step U4;

U4 transmits short message to receiving side terminal.

7, the method for network saving short message as claimed in claim 6, it is characterized in that disposing all users' short message configuration information in each short message service center, before step U2 or before the U4, also comprise, described recipient belongs to the short message configuration information that short message service center checks transmit leg, judge in the described short message configuration information whether the requirement that saves short message is arranged, if, the short message that will need to preserve by the interface between the short message service center is forwarded to transmit leg ownership short message service center, and then short message is kept at the short message storage center of transmit leg.

8, a kind of method of network saving short message is characterized in that configuration short message storage center in network, and storing step comprises:

(d1) user sends SMS message to store to short message service center by terminal and asks, and comprises content of short message in the described storage request;

(d2) described short message service center returns response message to terminal, comprises whether successful state is indicated; If success then comprises the successful indication of storage in the message; If unsuccessful, comprise cause value in the message.

9, as the method for claim 1 or 8 described network saving short messages, it is characterized in that further comprising the steps of:

The party A-subscriber, operates the short message that is kept at described short message storage center to short message service center's transmit operation request by terminal;

The described short message service center of B returns response message to terminal, comprises whether successful state is indicated.

10, the method for network saving short message as claimed in claim 9 is characterized in that described operation requests comprises the request of inquiry short message, the request of deletion short message, downloads the short message request.

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