US Patent Issued to Tango Networks on Feb. 4 for "System, method, and apparatus for using alternative numbers for routing voice calls and short messages in a communications network" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,460, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Tango Networks Inc. (Frisco, Texas).

"System, method, and apparatus for using alternative numbers for routing voice calls and short messages in a communications network" was invented by Andrew Silver (Frisco, Texas) and Patricia A. Landgren (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and computer-readable medium for allowing the use of an alternative numbering plan for delivering short messages to mobile subscribers using the public mobile telephone network is provided. Users of an enterprise or other closed networks as well as users that are not part of a closed network may sen...