Method and a system for submitting messages deposited in an inbox of a messaging service

• US 7,292,679 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2004
• Issued: 11/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Original Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Inventors: Brun, Arnaud, Darsin, Bruno, Rouge, Thierry
• Primary Examiner(s): Gauthier; Gerald
• Application Number:
  US10/893,937
• Publication Number:
  US 20050018821A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,204 Days
• Field of Search: 379/93.35, 379/93.25, 379/142, 379/88.13, 379/88.14, 379/88.19, 379/88.12, 709/220, 348/14.02
• US Class Current: 379/88.12
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

A system and a method for submitting a message (MSG) to a telecommunications terminal (2) of an addressee, which message has been deposited by a caller in an inbox (12) of a messaging server (1) of the addressee. The method comprises the following successive steps:

• • a step of sending a request to search for an illustration (8) from the voice messaging server (1) to a directory device (3),
  • a step of sending said illustration (8) from the directory device (3) to the messaging server (1),
  • a step of sending the deposited message (MSG) and said illustration (8) from the messaging server (1) to a multimedia messaging server centre (MMSC), and
  • a step of sending a multimedia message (MMS) containing at least said deposited message (MSG) and said illustration (8) from the multimedia messaging server centre (MMSC) to the terminal (2).

Claims

1. A method of submitting a message to an addressee'"'"'s telephone, comprising:

when sending a message from a first caller to a first addressee in a system comprising a voice messaging server, an addressee telephone subscribing to the voice messaging server, a directory device, and a multimedia messaging server center exchanging data via a telecommunications network,

the directory device comprising a database divided into a plurality of addressee storage spaces, each addressee storage space being for one subscriber of plural subscribers of the voice messaging server,

each addressee storage space comprising a subscriber address book of plural callers and identification of each caller including an illustration representing each caller,

a first step of depositing the message, from the first caller to the first addressee, in an inbox of the first addressee in the voice messaging server,

a second step of sending, from the voice messaging server to the directory device, a request to have the directory device search a first addressee storage space for an illustration associated with the first caller, the search providing a first caller illustration;

a third step of sending, from the directory device to the voice messaging server, the first caller illustration;

a fourth step of sending the content of the deposited message and the first caller illustration from the voice messaging server to the multimedia messaging server center; and

a fifth step of sending, from the multimedia server to a telephone of the first addressee, a multimedia message comprising the content of the deposited message, uncoverted, combined with the first caller illustration, the multimedia message configured for direct consultation on the telephone of the first addressee.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the deposited message is a voice message, the caller illustration is a photo, and the multimedia message comprises the voice message combined with the photo.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein, in each addressee storage space, the subscriber address book of plural callers further comprises identification of each caller including identification of each callers'"'"' mobile and fixed telephone numbers, address, and building code.