Telecommunications services apparatus and method
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In a text message processing system, an SMS router (3) can recognise a predefined arrangement of one or more characters, such as “*”, as a suffix to a destination address of a message being submitted by a mobile telephone (1) to the system. Upon such recognition, a function required by the message sender is selected so as to change the normal delivery function, for example by forwarding the received message to an email interface (6) for delivery by email either instead of, or in addition to, normal text message delivery.
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- 35. Telecommunications services apparatus for use with a telephone messaging system, the apparatus comprising means for recognising a predefined arrangement of one or more characters as a suffix to a destination address of a message being submitted to the telephone messaging system, and means responsive to recognition by the recognising means to select a function required by the sender of the message so as to change the normal message delivery function thereby to change or augment the processing or routing of the message, wherein the function selecting means comprises a message router selectively operable to divert messages away from a message service centre of the messaging system.
- 51. A telecommunications services method in a telephone messaging system, the method comprising recognising a predefined arrangement of one or more characters as a suffix to a destination address of a message being submitted to the telephone messaging system, and selecting a function required by the sender of the message upon recognition of the suffix so as to change the normal message delivery function thereby to change or augment the processing or routing of the message, wherein a message router performs the function selecting step by selectively diverting messages away from a message service centre of the messaging system.
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