System for personal messaging
First Claim
1. A method for conveying a message from a sending terminal to a receiving terminal over a telecommunications system that is at least in part a wireless telecommunications system, the method comprising the steps of:
- a) assembling a plurality of frames of the message in a desired order, at least one frame including text and either a picture or a bookmark to a picture;
b) indicating a recipient of the message;
c) indicating that the message is to be sent to the indicated recipient;
wherein the step of indicating that the message is to be sent to the indicated recipient is performed once for all of the frames of the message rather than for each frame of the message, thereby providing to the recipient a message consisting of a plurality of frames in the desired order.
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Abstract
A method and corresponding apparatus and system for conveying a message between sending and receiving terminals of a communication system, the method including the steps of: assembling a plurality of frames of the message in a desired order, at least one frame including text and either a picture or a bookmark to a picture; indicating a recipient of the message; indicating that the message is to be sent to the indicated recipient; wherein the step of indicating that the message is to be sent to the indicated recipient is performed once for all of the frames of the message rather than for each frame of the message, thereby providing to the recipient a message consisting of a plurality of frames in the desired order. The message is provided using a message service such as either the short message service (SMS), extended message service (EMS), or the multimedia messaging service (MMS).
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23 Claims
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1. A method for conveying a message from a sending terminal to a receiving terminal over a telecommunications system that is at least in part a wireless telecommunications system, the method comprising the steps of:
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a) assembling a plurality of frames of the message in a desired order, at least one frame including text and either a picture or a bookmark to a picture;
b) indicating a recipient of the message;
c) indicating that the message is to be sent to the indicated recipient;
wherein the step of indicating that the message is to be sent to the indicated recipient is performed once for all of the frames of the message rather than for each frame of the message, thereby providing to the recipient a message consisting of a plurality of frames in the desired order. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An apparatus for conveying an ordered sequence of frames of a message, at least one frame including both a picture and associated text, the message being conveyed at least in part using a bearer service of a wireless communications network, the apparatus comprising:
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a) means for assembling a plurality of frames of the message in a desired order, at least one frame including text and either a picture or a bookmark to a picture;
b) means for indicating a recipient of the message;
c) means for indicating that the message is to be sent to the indicated recipient;
wherein the means for indicating that the message is to be sent to the indicated recipient requires on the part of a sender a single action to be performed for all of the frames of the message rather than for each frame of the message, thereby providing to the recipient a message consisting of a plurality of frames in the desired order. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A system, comprising:
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i) an apparatus for conveying an ordered sequence of frames of a message, at least one frame including both a picture and associated text, the message being conveyed at least in part using a bearer service of a wireless communications network, the apparatus comprising;
a) means for assembling a plurality of frames of the message in a desired order, at least one frame including text and either a picture or a bookmark to a picture;
b) means for indicating a recipient of the message;
c) means for indicating that the message is to be sent to the indicated recipient;
wherein the means for indicating that the message is to be sent to the indicated recipient requires on the part of a sender a single action to be performed for all of the frames of the message rather than for each frame of the message; and
ii) means for providing a picture in response to a request for the picture;
thereby providing to the recipient a message consisting of a plurality of frames in the desired order. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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