US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on March 31 for "Updating contact information using SMS after a number change" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,202, issued on March 31, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Updating contact information using SMS after a number change" was invented by Sheraz Farooq Dar (Bellevue, Wash.), Sudhanshu Pandey (Bellevue, Wash.) and Zakir Hussain Syed (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology performs an automatic update of a Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number (MSISDN) change to at least a subset of contacts associated with a user account. Upon receiving an indication of a MSISDN change associated with an account, a contact update server of a telecommunications network retrieves c...