Patent 10924895 was granted and assigned to BlackBerry on February, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for sending a short message service (SMS) message is provided. The method comprises receiving, by a destination home network database entity from a sending network entity, a first message containing an indication of support for a plurality of SMS message delivery protocols, wherein the SMS message is transmitted to a target entity address contained in the first message.