Patent ID: 8417269

Claim:
A method of determining a message type for a mobile station, comprising the steps of: combining, at an intelligent messaging system, a subject of an email and a body of the email into a first message; determining, at the intelligent messaging system, if the email contains an attachment; if the email contains the attachment, converting, at the intelligent messaging system, the first message into a second message type; if the email does not contain the attachment, analyzing, at the intelligent messaging system, the first message to select into which of different types of messages to transform the first message: the second message type, a third message type, or a fourth message type; and transforming the first message into the second, the third, or the fourth message type based on the analyzing step, wherein the steps of analyzing and transforming the first message comprise the steps of: counting a number of characters in the first message; if the number of characters is less than or equal to a first limit, transforming the first message to the third message type; if the number of characters is greater than the first limit and less than or equal to a second limit, transforming the first message to the fourth message type; and if the number of characters is greater than the second limit, transforming the first message to the second message type.