Patent ID: 6971064

Claim:
A method for automatically forwarding and replying to short messages comprising the following steps: a local user joining a message chat room; examining whether the user presses a key for forwarding a message; if the user has pressed said key for forwarding said message, providing a structuralized, modularized and hierarchy message menu to the user, else the local user waiting for a plurality of pie-established reply messages provided by a server or a remote cellular phone and the local user pressing a send key after selecting a reply message; the message having a packet format comprising a user defined length (UDL), a user defined head length (UDHL), a plurality of information element identifiers (IEI), a plurality of information element identifier data lengths (IEIDL), and a plurality of information element data (IED), the information element data containing an IED21 indicating a forward message in the message chat room and an IED22 indicating a reply message in the message chat room, wherein, a corresponding field of the IEI22 is not present in the message packet when the reply message is provided by the remote cellular phone, the reply message is written to the corresponding field of the IEI22 when the reply message is provided by the server.