ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,874, issued on July 21, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).
"Method and system for SMS communication in 3GPP networks" was invented by Saket Rustagi (Delhi, India), Tushar Sabharwal (New Delhi) and Nipun Sharma (New Delhi).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A User configures the option in his/her UE to deliver the SMS via Operator's application client installed on UE. This configuration will be saved in the UDM as an option opted by UE. SMS-GMSC receives the "SMS delivery flag (indicating alternate delivery mechanism is enabled)" from UDM in response to the "Send Routing Infor for SM" message. If the tradit...