Patent ID: 9716986
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for use in an accessory, the method comprising: providing, by an accessory connected to a mobile communication device (MCD) through a wireless link, capability information indicating that the accessory supports text message notifications; receiving, by the accessory from the MCD in response to determining that the accessory supports text message notifications based on the capability information, a text message notification indicating that the MCD has received and stored a full text message from a mobile communication network, wherein the full text message includes multimedia, and wherein the text message notification includes an identifier associated with the text message, a partial text message having a lesser portion of the full text message, and an indication that the full text message includes the multimedia; producing, by the accessory, a non-visual sensory notification to alert a user when the partial text message is received by the accessory; displaying, by the accessory to the user in response to receiving the text message notification from the MCD, the partial text message; sending, by the accessory to the MCD, a user request to access the full text message including the multimedia, wherein the user request includes the identifier; receiving, by the accessory from the MCD in response to the user request, the full text message including the multimedia stored by the MCD; and providing, by the accessory to the user in response to receiving the full text message from the MCD, the full text message.