Patent ID: 8583807

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a mobile computing device to send and receive messages of different types, the mobile computing device comprising: a processor; an intelligent message manager to: determine available transfer media and available message types for sending a composed message to a plurality of recipients, automatically select a transfer medium from the available transfer media and a message type from the available message types for each of the plurality of recipients, wherein the automatic selection is at least based on historical data of a best medium or message type from previous connection attempts based on the location of the mobile device, and provide a unified composer messaging interface to enable a sender to compose messages independently of message type; and a messaging rules database to store criteria for controlling said automatic selection, the criteria including at least one of transfer medium cost, transfer medium reliability, historical data and message priority; the mobile device to automatically format the composed message to the selected message type for each of the plurality of recipients, wherein each of the plurality of recipients is associated with a message of a different type, and the mobile device to send a message to each of the plurality of recipients according to the selected medium and message type.