Patent ID: 7877103

Claim:
In a wireless mobile device, a method of operation comprising: facilitating by the wireless mobile device a user of the wireless mobile device in forming a mixed media message for transmission to a recipient of another wireless mobile device, wherein the mixed media message comprises text and at least one image graphically conveying and corresponding to one or more words; receiving, by the wireless mobile device, a request to transmit the formed mixed media message to the recipient; transforming, by the wireless mobile device, in response to the request to transmit, the mixed media message to a text message, replacing the at least one image included in the mixed media message with the corresponding one or more words, and including an indicator indicating the text message is a textual equivalent of a mixed media message; and transmitting the text message, by the wireless mobile device, to the another mobile device of the recipient, for display of the text and the at least one image in a mixed media form, with the at least one image replacing the corresponding represented one or more words.