Patents by Inventor Ian Birchall

Ian Birchall has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method, apparatus and computer readable medium for terminating and newly constructing a send routing information (SRI) message in mobile networks
    Patent number: 9264883
    Abstract: An originating SMSC in Network A issues an SRI-SM towards the HLR of a recipient (User B in Network B). One of a number of N Platforms or Message Controllers (“MCOs”) intercepts the SRI-SM. Instead of passing on the SRI-SM, the MCO terminates it and performs a full decode of all fields, specifically extracting the recipient MSISDN from it. The MCO then constructs a new SRI-SM for the same MSISDN, but forcing the new request to ask for all available data, including, but not necessarily limited to visited-MSC address, SGSN address and IP-SM-GW address. When a response is received the MCO generates a fresh query response for the originating SMSC instead of merely routing on the response which it receives. If the MCO is programmed to provide a false address for smart services it incorporates the false address in the query response which it generates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: MARKPORT LIMITED
    Inventors: Simon Dumbleton, Jim Plimmer, Ian Birchall
  • METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR TERMINATING AND NEWLY CONSTRUCTING A SEND ROUTING INFORMATION (SRI) MESSAGE IN MOBILE NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20150141003
    Abstract: An originating SMSC in Network A issues an SRI-SM towards the HLR of a recipient (User B in Network B). One of a number of N Platforms or Message Controllers (“MCOs”) intercepts the SRI-SM. Instead of passing on the SRI-SM, the MCO terminates it and performs a full decode of all fields, specifically extracting the recipient MSISDN from it. The MCO then constructs a new SRI-SM for the same MSISDN, but forcing the new request to ask for all available data, including, but not necessarily limited to visited-MSC address, SGSN address and IP-SM-GW address. When a response is received the MCO generates a fresh query response for the originating SMSC instead of merely routing on the response which it receives. If the MCO is programmed to provide a false address for smart services it incorporates the false address in the query response which it generates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: MARKPORT LIMITED
    Inventors: Simon Dumbleton, Jim Plimmer, Ian Birchall