SHORT MESSAGING SERVICE CENTER MOBILE-ORIGINATED TO HTTP INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS

摘要

This invention relates to the field of mobile communications networks that use the Internet. More particularly, this invention is a method and apparatus, where the apparatus is a mobile device-to-HTTP protocol gateway that serves as an interface between a mobile device and an application server on the Internet. The mobile device-to-HTTP protocol gateway enables developers to create mobile applications using standard web development tools. With reference to Fig. 1, a wireless Internet gateway (126) establishes communications with one or more relevant short message service centers (124), and the mobile device-to-HTTP protocol gateway (100) uses HTTP to post short messages transmitted from the mobile device (120) to a particular URL. The mobile device-to-HTTP protocol gateway (100) receives the return results and forwards them to the short message service center (124) for delivery to the mobile device (120).