[April 05, 2012] Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,150,428) developed by Jerry Kupsh, Concord, Calif., and Biren Patel, San Ramon, Calif., for a "mobile originated SMS over a wireless IP network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for offloads SMS messages from a voice network of a wireless carrier to a data network. The method includes sending a mobile originated SMS using hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) from a wireless handset to a short message service center (SMSC) over a wireless data network. The method further includes conducting a lookup at the SMSC to determine the home SMSC for the originating mobile handset and sending a redirect to the mobile handset as means to facilitate a dynamic update of the home SMSC location stored on the wireless handset." The patent application was filed on Nov. 24, 2008 (12/276,476). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,150,428&OS=8,150,428&RS=8,150,428 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. SR0405HP0405-722495 (c) 2012 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]