Patent ID: 8819144
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving an indication that a received electronic mail (e-mail) message should be forwarded as a Short Message Service (SMS) message; further receiving an indication of a specified recipient for the SMS message, the indication comprising a user selection, from a displayed list of names of contacts in an electronic address book, of a name of a contact of the electronic address book; presenting a user interface including a plurality of selectable destination addresses for the SMS message, each of the destination addresses being associated with the contact of the electronic address book; based upon determining that a destination address of the plurality is associated with a mobile communication device, automatically selecting within the user interface, as a default destination address for the SMS message, the destination address associated with the mobile communication device; ascertaining whether the e-mail message, when converted to an SMS message, would exceed a predetermined maximum total length L for a multi-segment SMS message, the predetermined maximum total length L being based on a predetermined maximum number of characters per segment multiplied by a predetermined maximum number of segments per multi-segment SMS message; when the ascertaining is in the positive, creating a multi-segment SMS message comprising the predetermined maximum number of segments, each of the SMS message segments containing a portion of the content of the e-mail message and having a length that is equal to the maximum number of characters per segment; displaying in the user interface a number of segments in the created multi-segment SMS message that is equal to the predetermined maximum number of segments; and further displaying in the user interface an indicator of a number of characters by which the e-mail message has been shortened.