Patent ID: 7693528

Claim:
A method of modifying a messaging service message transmitted from a sending party to a receiving party through a communications network, the method comprising: intercepting the messaging service message in the communications network; selecting a plurality of channels of data, by a server, based on the sending party or the receiving party, at least one channel being associated with transmission of a temporal sequence of chronological data items and being accessible by parties in addition to the sending party and the receiving party; applying one or more predetermined rules to at least some of the selected channels so as to identify at least one data item therefrom; appending, in the server, data derived from the at least one identified data item to said intercepted message to generate a modified message including the appended data; and transmitting the modified message from the server to the message recipient, wherein the at least one identified data item is identified based on a temporal relationship between individual, chronological data items for one of the plurality of selected channels so that chronologically successive data items for that one selected channel are identified.