US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on July 14 for "Prioritization of transmission of user-indicated urgent messages and systems and methods of the same" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,316, issued on July 14, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Prioritization of transmission of user-indicated urgent messages and systems and methods of the same" was invented by Karri M. Kuoppamaki (Kirkland, Wash.), Gaviphat Lekutai (Kirkland, Wash.) and Jun Liu (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed herein for reprioritizing messages received at a short message service center (SMSC). The system maintains a queue of messages with prioritization. The system receives a first message transmission request. The system determines that the message transmission request contains a...