Use cases for VGMS Enterprise, Use cases for VGMS Enterprise

Dear Admin,

I would like to know if VGSM Enterprise, or any of your additional products, can be used for the following use case scenarios:

Case #1- We will setup a web site for user, the sender, to type in his message. This message will travel to, his friend's, the recipient, GSM cell phone. User could be anybody from the Internet. Sender will supply a/ his message b/ the recipient's cell phone number and c/ the sender's reply email address. If the recipient wants to use the cell phone to reply the reply message will be send to the sender email address.

Case #2 (which is independent of case #1)- User A wants to use his cell phone to send a SMS message to user B. The message will arrive to user B in the form of an email. The question is for convenience and simplicity before user A can send a SMS message he needs to have user B email address. Is there a way that user B can send his email address to user A's cell phone earlier so that user A will just have to open a phonebook in his cell phone (or something like that) to extract the email address. Of course, the entry in the phone book should contain not only user B email address but also his "real" name and our modem GSM number. User A's SMS message will travel to our VGSM server using our modem GSM number. Our VGSM server will then extract the text of SMS message, put it an email and send to user B using user B's email address.

Additionally our VGSM server will have to discard the incoming SMS from user A if user B's email address is not in our database. Meaning that we don't want any user A just use our VGSM server to send message to user B if user B not wanting to receive any email message from user A. Only when user B sends to user A his VCARD (or any form of his info) then user B is willing to receive email from user A.

Can VGSM Enterprise do the above? Any API should I be aware of? Any techniques?

Please help before I try to install and evaluate VGSM Ent. Server.

Thanks

-Sean

PS: We will use Wavecom Fastrack modems to connect to VGSM server

Ok, i think you can insert the email address into the message at the front, so that the receipient can reply with the email address intact. VisualGSM supports concatenated SMS, so the message can exceed 160 characters. Pls refer to the Send SMS by email demo - http://www.visualgsm.com/online_demo2.htm

E.g.

email john@visualgsm.com [Hi, where are we meeting for dinner tonite? Pls reply by replacing the text in brackets].

If user B email addresses are all using the same domain, you can preset the domain (the part that comes after @) in the Email Keyword setting. Pls refer to the SMS2Email demo - http://www.visualgsm.com/online_demo3.htm

If not, you have to write a script or SQL procedure that extracts out the complete email address of user B, and then send out the email using an API. You can call the script via HTTP or CMD Keyword action, or SQL Keyword action (for SQL procedure).

VisualGSM has a Mobile Security function (refer to user guides - http://www.visualgsm.com/documentation/pafiledb.php) that allows you to assign rights to phonebook groups - you will need to add users to the phonebook first either manually or using script, or SMS Keyword action. This authorization will apply to all members of the group - it is not an individual authorization list. For individual authorization, programming is required.

As for Vcard, i'm not sure exactly your full meaning, as the vcard is sent to user A, and not VisualGSM. Perhaps you mean that user B will send the phone number of user A to VisualGSM for entry into the phonebook?

VisualGSM comes with high level Keyword actions (Email/SQL/CMD/HTTP) that can be used to automate certain procedures without programming. However, if you need to do something that is not supported by any of the actions, you can either call a custom written script, an entire SQL procedure. You can also set VisualGSM to return any program generated response in SMS format back to the sender. You can find some examples that make use of Keyword actions here - http://www.visualtron.com/tutorial.htm.