Patent ID: 7730143

Claim:
A method implemented by one or more computer hardware devices for communicating using electronic devices, the method comprising: receiving an incoming message and an indication of a sender-specified destination for the incoming message; determining that a mobile telephone number is known by the sender to be associated with the sender-specified destination; based on having determined that the mobile telephone number is known by the sender to be associated with the sender-specified; destination, forwarding, to the mobile telephone number, the incoming message as a first message; and sending a second message to the mobile telephone number, wherein: determining that the mobile telephone number is known by the sender to be associated with the sender-specified destination comprises identifying, in an electronic collection of contact information associated with the sender, a stored association of the mobile telephone number with the sender-specified destination, the first message is based on the incoming message, and the second message indicates that the first message was sent to the mobile telephone number based on the determination that the mobile telephone number is known by the sender to be associated with the sender-specified destination.