Ideas

if am not wrong most of the email clients have the option!...yeah for outlook i dont think so!

YOu didnt get me... i mean this one is for Mobile phone networkj not for email (the email was OMarr's idea) =)

This one is a auto notification for mobile phone user if the text message (sms) was read or opened just like OUtlook express.

The carriers would like it because they likely will make more money on data traffic on their networks.

A delivery report to tell you that the receipt has sucessfully reached the other party is part of the SMS specification.

It looks like the idea of a read receipt has also been worked on / implemented : http://www.priorartd...com/IPCOM/000139432/

Thanks Allan,

so its siemens who disclosed this extrated text report... iwonder how and why the rest are not following? another copyright impediments again?

Its dated 2004, and no one seems purchasing the idea from that certain author from Bangalore... if its a invention with patent or even a copyrighted thingy, it must be near of "expiry"...we can then put up a start up company to sell this in regional territory as marketing ploy to promote a product too...
inovation is the key to survived such idea competition and makes it work.

this is old hat. many European providers offer it, but it does not always work across networks. In Europe, SMS messages are often subcontracted to companies that only handle that, and delivery reports may require direct access to all the carrier's equipment. Imagine if your cell is off, or dies halfway through the message packet, then it must be queued on the server and delivered later. Then there's the roaming issue the 3rd party SMS server must receive notification that you registered on a foreign roamed network and must deliver to it., etc. To top it off, the carriers are very secretive and don't allow anyone access that could crash their systems. Now you understand why global SMS is not reliable, and why it's not feasible to implement reception reports globally. IN any case, this idea is not patentable since there is prior art, namely in the above mentioned GSM spec.

Have to agree with TheGuru... sms receipts are available on many carriers but not all and trying to consolidate a position with mobile carriers world wide would be a nightmare... i have dealt with mobile carriers and they are a walled garden.

...glad to get your valued comments and well mean observation.

Am stil not surendering...remember how cultural difference can be a determinant to marketing a product? The world i guess is big enough and still have room for this if repackage in some cutie adds-on.

there's a saying Saigon: "you can't polish a t*rd". ;) No matter much much you dress this up, you will not easily overcome the technical and political problems that are the real reason SMS receipts still do not work 100%.
You cannot changed billion dollar corporations, not human nature. Better to devote your brain to a better idea that can be accomplished - like a global
email-to-SMS gateway that will replace the 60$/mo RIM blackberry service fees! (of course - no SMS receipts ;))

ok ..the idea is shut down... ;-)