US Patent Issued to Syniverse Technologies on July 14 for "Interworking function for VoLTE outbound roaming SMS messaging" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,425, issued on July 14, was assigned to Syniverse Technologies LLC (Tampa, Fla.).

"Interworking function for VoLTE outbound roaming SMS messaging" was invented by Edward Yau (Tseung Kwan, Hong Kong), Brian Beach (Tampa, Fla.) and Prashant Datar (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "SMS services are provided to roaming mobile devices at visiting networks. This invention implements interworking between VoLTE and circuit-switched (CS) SMS and handles roaming towards both the VPLMN (visited public land mobile network) and HPLMN (home public land mobile network). The interworking function translates CS signals from the VPLMN into IM...