Patent ID: 7124175
Filing Date: 2006-10-17
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method in an application server for executing a messaging application, the method comprising: receiving a first HTTP request, from a proxy browser serving a user, for execution of a prescribed messaging application operation related to a specified remote subscriber; obtaining, via an Internet Protocol (IP) based wide area packet switched network, subscriber attribute information for the specified remote subscriber from an Internet Protocol (IP) based database server configured for storing subscriber attributes for local subscribers and retrieving the subscriber attributes for remote subscribers from remote IP based database servers; generating a web page, for execution of the prescribed messaging application operation and having media content and control tags, based on the first HTTP request and the obtained subscriber attribute information; and accessing via the IP based wide area packet switched network an IP-based messaging server for at least one of retrieval and storage of subscriber messaging information for the specified remote subscriber, based on a prescribed messaging address retrieved from the obtained subscriber attribute information and a second HTTP request received from the proxy browser and having a reference to the prescribed messaging application operation.