Patent ID: 6351648
Filing Date: 2002-02-26
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A method for delivering a text message that has been received in a message central module of a public mobile radio telephone network to a subscriber registered as a subscriber both in the mobile radio telephone network and in a second communication network which is of a different network type than the mobile radio telephone network, a location of the subscriber being stored in a database allocated to the subscriber, wherein the text message is delivered to the subscriber if the subscriber can be reached within the mobile radiotelephone network, the method comprising the steps of:determining the presence of the text message to be delivered to the subscriber; checking in the mobile radiotelephone network whether the subscriber can be reached within the mobile radiotelephone network; storing the availability of the subscriber in the second communication network in the database allocated to the subscriber; communicating a message, via the message central module, concerning the presence of the text message for the subscriber to a control module of the second communication network; and causing the displaying of an item of information, via the control module, concerning the presence of the text message in the message central module of the mobile radiotelephone network at a terminal apparatus allocated to the subscriber within the second communication network.