Patent ID: 9160569
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A messaging method carried out by devices and a messaging system in a communication network, the method comprising the steps of: an originating device sending messages with the same content and addressed to multiple terminating devices; the system receiving the messages, automatically detecting that the messages are intended by the originating device user as being a single message to be addressed to a plurality of users which shall form a group, correlating said messages as being for group messaging, and routing the messages to the terminating devices with a reply path address of the system; the reply path address being a global title address from a pool of global titles allocated to the system; the system storing a group messaging record with data for the originating and terminating devices; and the system subsequently receiving a reply from at least one terminating device, routing the reply to the originating device, and forwarding corresponding replies to the other terminating devices in the group.