US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Aug. 4 for "Systems and methods for routing SMS messages in a visited network using a proxy" (Washington, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,396, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for routing SMS messages in a visited network using a proxy" was invented by Nassereddine Sabeur (Bellevue, Wash.), Joel Arends (Renton, Wash.) and Marc A. Proctor (Shanwee, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for using a visitor subscriber service (VSS) to provide short messaging services (SMS) on an advanced network for inbound roamers are described. The VSS acts as proxy for registration services and uses profile information of a roaming UE to either route a mobile terminated SMS message for the UE to an IMS if the UE...