Patent ID: 6795822
Filing Date: 2004-09-21
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A text communication method for use with communication devices adapted to send and receive text messages over a network, at least some of the communication devices utilizing an acting device adapted to relay text messages between the communication devices and a communication server providing text message communication among the communication devices, said text communication method comprising:providing the acting device, on the network, with a dictionary containing rules regarding conversion between words and word IDs that specify the words, with the dictionary corresponding to at least one of the communication devices or a user, where the acting device sends and/or receives the text messages to and/or from at least some of the communication devices over the network; providing for sending from the one communication device to the acting device a conversion command that specifies whether text messages sent over the network to and/or from the one communication device via the acting device should be converted or not by the acting device, and based on the conversion command the acting device determines accordingly whether or not to convert the text messages of the one communication device with the dictionary; providing a determination table specifying a conversion mode for at least some of said communication devices, where a communication device's conversion mode indicates whether or not to convert its text messages; using the determination table to determine at the acting device whether or not to convert the text messages with the dictionary; and at the acting device, converting the text messages with the dictionary when so determined, and relaying the converted and unconverted text messages between the one communication device and the communication server.