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System and method of handling messages for forwarding

  • US 8,745,140 B2
  • Filed: 10/14/2005
  • Issued: 06/03/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of forwarding a received message, the method comprising, at a wireless communication device:

  • receiving, over a first message handling service, a message of a first message type, the receiving resulting in a received message;

    instantiating, from an object-oriented donor message class representing the first message type and implementing a predetermined object-oriented interface, a donor message object based on the received message;

    presenting a user interface at the wireless communication device, the user interface presenting multiple user-selectable options associated with different message handling services for forwarding the received message;

    upon user selection of one of the options, the selected option being associated with a second message handling service that transports messages of a second message type, requesting information elements from the donor message object via the predetermined object-oriented interface;

    receiving the information elements;

    populating a recipient message object with the information elements, the recipient message object being an instantiation of an object-oriented recipient message class representing the second message type; and

    performing the forwarding of the received message using the recipient message object,wherein the first message handling service is a Short Messaging Service (SMS), the received message is an SMS message and the second message handling service is an e-mail service,and wherein the information elements comprise a Subject element and further comprising generating the Subject element from a portion of a payload of the SMS message.

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