Patent ID: 7116994
Filing Date: 2006-10-03
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system for a mobile telephone network, the system comprising: a text message receiving means for receiving over the mobile telephone network a text message sent to a mobile telephone network destination address; a redirect information means for receiving and storing a text message redirect instruction associated with one of the mobile telephone network destination addresses; a database for storing a mapping of the mobile telephone network destination addresses onto data network destination addresses in a data network; an address obtaining means for obtaining a data network destination address from said mapping in said database in dependence on the mobile telephone network destination address of a text message received by the text message receiving means; and an email means for forming an email from the text in a text message received by the text message receiving means in dependence on redirect information received in advance of the text message in the redirect information means, and sending the email over the data network to the data network destination address obtained for the email by the address obtaining means.