Patent ID: 7376126

Claim:
A system for data messaging, comprising: a message application server connected to a communications network and in communication with a communication device for sending and receiving a data message; and a broadband connection between the message application server and a wireline-messaging device for sending and receiving the data message to and from the message application server, wherein the wireline messaging device is connected to a public switched telephone network, and wherein the message application server receives the data message from the wireline-messaging device over the broadband connection using a wireline directory number as a terminating address for the data message, sends a return message over the broadband connection to the communication device requesting identification of an intended recipient of the data message from among a plurality of wireline-messaging devices associated with the wireline directory number, receives a response message from the communication device indicating the intended recipient, and maps the wireline directory number associated with the intended recipient of the data message to an Internet protocol address associated with the intended recipient.