Patent ID: 7043233

Claim:
A process, comprising: recording a voice message for a recipient subscriber in a portable wireless telephone without establishing a voice or data channel with the message storage system; querying according to a packet-switched-data network application layer data transfer protocol, address of a recipient-subscriber message storage system from a resource database via a packet-switched-data network between the portable wireless telephone and the resource database; transmitting the voice message to the recipient-subscriber message storage system, according to the packet-switched-data network application layer data transfer protocol, via a packet-switched-data network between the portable wireless telephone and the recipient-subscriber message storage system; storing the transmitted message in a mailbox for the recipient subscriber in the recipient-subscriber message storage system; updating according to the packet-switched-data network application layer data transfer protocol, message service information of the recipient subscriber in the resource database by the recipient-subscriber message storage system according to the storing in the mailbox via a packet-switched-data network between the resource database and the recipient-subscriber message storage system; alerting automatically by the resource database according to the packet-switched-data network application layer data transfer protocol, a recipient-subscriber portable wireless telephone with the message service information via a packet-switched-data network between the resource database and the recipient-subscriber portable wireless telephone; establishing a packet-switched-data network between the recipient-subscriber portable wireless telephone and the recipient-subscriber message storage system; processing according to the packet-switched-data network application layer data transfer protocol, the voice message in the recipient-subscriber portable wireless telephone via the packet-switched-data network between the recipient-subscriber portable wireless telephone and the recipient-subscriber message storage system; and updating according to the packet-switched-data network application layer data transfer protocol, the message service information of the recipient subscriber in the resource database by the recipient-subscriber message storage system according to the voice message processing in the recipient-subscriber portable wireless telephone via a packet-switched-data network between the resource database and the message storage system.