Unified and Best Messaging Systems for Communication Devices

• US 20130150103A1
• Filed: 02/12/2013
• Published: 06/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovation Company Limited Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Great Elm Capital Corp. (f/k/a Unwired Planet, Inc.) (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Inventors: Rukman, Jason, Heitzeberg, Joseph Edward, Hoover, Thomas Jay, Lowry, Ethan, Franklin, Patrick Greer
• Granted Patent: US 8,644,462 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

A unified messaging system which can provide messaging services for a plurality of different “message types” is disclosed. The unified messaging system can serve as a single interface to a number of messaging services provided by various messaging components which use different message types (e.g., mail server). A unified message type is implemented and presented to a user as an abstract message. In addition, the unified messaging system can automatically determine, based on a first selected feature, if one or more message types should be used. A particular message type can also be automatically selected as a “best message type” based on one or more selected options.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A handheld communication device for the transmission of messages to recipient devices, the handheld communication device including at least one mode of message composition, wherein:

the handheld communication device presents a unified messaging interface to a user for the composition of messages which can be transmitted from the handheld communication device in at least two different transmittal message types, including a Short Message Service (SMS) transmittal message type and a Multimedia Message Service (MMS) transmittal message type; and

the handheld communication device automatically determines one or more supported transmittal message types based on whether a feature, associated with a message via said unified messaging interface, is supported by one or more transmittal message types,

wherein the handheld communication device automatically determines a selected transmittal message type, to be used for the transmission of the message, for a message having one or more associated features which are supported by only one of the at least two different transmittal message types, and

wherein the handheld communication device automatically determines a preferred transmittal message type, to be used for the transmission of the message, for a message having one or more associated features which are supported by two or more of the at least two different transmittal message types.