Patent ID: 7853659

Claim:
A method of presenting a personalized multimedia message to a user, comprising: receiving a text based message from a sender, the message including a sender identifier; responsive to receiving the text based message, connecting through a network to a digital device host registry; responsive to receiving the text based message, identifying a sender profile within the digital device host registry, the sender profile corresponding to the sender identifier; responsive to identifying the sender profile within a digital device host registry, identifying a set of corresponding personalized media channels from within the digital device host registry, wherein corresponding personalized media channels are the associated with the sender profile, wherein the set of corresponding personalized media channels includes at least one of a voice profile, a static image, and lip synchronization data; augmenting the text based message with the set of corresponding personalized media channels to create a multimedia message, wherein the multimedia message comprises a audio file of the text message rendered by using the voice profile, a “video” file of text message rendered by using the voice profile, and the static image with the lip synchronization data, or a combination thereof, wherein the step of augmenting the text based message with the set of corresponding personalized media channels to create a multimedia message comprises converting the text based message to a voice message based on the sender voice profile; and presenting the multimedia message to the user.