Patent 7031733 was granted and assigned to Siemens Communications on April, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A short message service (SMS) monitoring tool in a SMS-capable core node selectively monitoring SMS communications in a wireless communications system. SMS tool commands sent as SMS messages to the SMS monitoring tool enable/disable the SMS monitoring tool; start and stop monitoring; select mobile equipment (ME) for communications monitoring; and clear stored communications data. Collected SMS data include communications statistics and performance data.