Patent ID: 8670353

Claim:
A system comprising: a message application server, in communication with an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem network and an Internet Protocol messaging gateway, the message application server being configured to perform operations comprising receiving a message from a first user equipment in response to a determination having been made that an account associated with the first user equipment has a message delivery feature enabled, the message being addressed to a second user equipment, the message being formatted in accordance with a first protocol used by the Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem network, and the message comprising a time parameter provided by a user of the first user equipment, storing the message in accordance with the time parameter, and sending the message to the Internet Protocol messaging gateway in response to the time parameter being satisfied; and the Internet Protocol messaging gateway, in communication with the message application server and a message center, the Internet Protocol messaging gateway being configured to perform operations comprising receiving the message from the message application server, converting the message from the first protocol to a second protocol used by the message center, and sending the message in the second protocol to the message center for delivery to the second user equipment.