Patent ID: 8634809
Filing Date: 2014-01-21
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. A communications method, comprising: sending a request for messages from a television or set top box corresponding to a television display to a message forwarding server; receiving, in response to said request, a forwarded version of a first message from said message forwarding server, said first message being a message that was received by a user's mobile communications device; receiving with said forwarded version of said first message, information about an original sender of said first message, said information having been retrieved by said message forwarding server from one of stored information or the Internet; displaying content of said first message that was received by said user's mobile communications device on said television display, wherein said mobile communications device is a cell phone; receiving user input, said user input being a response to said content of said first message which is displayed; generating a first response message from said received user input; and sending the first response message to said user's mobile communications device.