Patent ID: 7865558
Filing Date: 2011-01-04
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for video terminal device messaging, the method comprising: querying a user associate with a mobile device to enable a user to determine whether to receive one or more mobile messages destined for the mobile device at a video terminal device; receiving a user selection to redirect the one or more mobile messages; transmitting a redirect request from the video terminal device to the wireless carrier system for the wireless carrier system to redirect the one or more mobile messages destined for the mobile device from the wireless carrier system to the video terminal device; detecting whether the mobile device is connected to the network connection between the video terminal device and the mobile device; selectively receiving the one or more mobile messages at the video terminal device based on a response to the query if the mobile device is detected; and selectively transmitting a cancel request from the video terminal device to the wireless carrier system to cancel redirection of the one or more mobile messages destined for the mobile device from the wireless carrier system to the video terminal device if mobile device is detected not to be connected.