v4.10 – Release mid January 2003

v4.10 is a maintenance release for the v4.x series of the Now SMS/MMS Gateway product.

The v4.10 release offers numerous improvements for connecting to UCP/EMI SMSCs, and many improvements to the 2-way SMS interface.

v4.0 – Released late November 2002

v4.0 is a significant new release that builds upon the MMS capabilities introduced in the v3.x releases of the gateway.

Significant new features in this release

• Dynamic MMS content adaptation and conversion in the MMSC. The MMSC uses WAP/MMS “User Agent Profile” capabilities to determine the MIME formats that a device supports, as well as the maximum size of images supported by the device. Where required, the MMSC converts between common image formats (including, but not limited to GIF, JPG, PNG, BMP and WBMP) to deliver an image supported by the device. For images larger than the maximum size supported by the device, the MMSC will automatically scale the image to fit the device, speeding up download times. For audio formats, conversion between WAV and AMR is provided in the e-mail gateway interface. MIME types not supported by the receiving device, which cannot be converted, will be removed prior to delivery to the receiving device to prevent compatibility issues and unnecessary download delays.

• Unicode (UTF-8) support for both SMS and MMS messages, enabling support for multilingual and double byte character environments.

• SMPP Server module added to simplify the process of linking multiple gateways and applications. Now other gateways and applications can link into the Now SMS/MMS Gateway via an SMPP interface to both send and receive messages.

• SMTP Authentication added to the MMSC e-mail gateway. This allows a user account to login via SMTP with an e-mail client to submit bulk delivery of SMS or MMS messages.

• Allow the SMS Sender to be defined when submitting a message. This value can be set when transmitting messages to an SMSC via SMPP, HTTP, or UCP/EMI. When transmitting via GSM modems, the sender value can be used to specify which GSM modem a particular message should be sent via. This enables the deployment of context-aware applications that can track interactions and SMS replies from a particular user by varying the sending address of messages sent to the user.

• Compatibility issues – We addressed several issues here. “Receive SMS Message” support is now working properly when the SonyEricsson T68i was used as a GSM modem, and a fix is included for MMS notifications that were being ignored by the Nokia 3510.

• User Accounting is improved with the ability to define message sending limits on both SMS and MMSC user accounts, and the ability to track the number of messages sent per day by user accounts.

• Integration with the Windows Event Log to integrate error reporting with other applications.

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