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Messaging system and method

  • US 9,160,569 B2
  • Filed: 01/31/2011
  • Issued: 10/13/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A messaging method carried out by devices and a messaging system in a communication network, the method comprising the steps of:

  • an originating device sending messages with the same content and addressed to multiple terminating devices;

    the system receiving the messages, automatically detecting that the messages are intended by the originating device user as being a single message to be addressed to a plurality of users which shall form a group, correlating said messages as being for group messaging, and routing the messages to the terminating devices with a reply path address of the system;

    the reply path address being a global title address from a pool of global titles allocated to the system;

    the system storing a group messaging record with data for the originating and terminating devices; and

    the system subsequently receiving a reply from at least one terminating device, routing the reply to the originating device, and forwarding corresponding replies to the other terminating devices in the group.

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