Patent ID: 7623878

Claim:
A method for use in delivering a short message to at least two wireless communication devices which operate in a wireless communication network comprising the acts of: maintaining, at a message server, a stored association between a first address of a first wireless communication device and a second address of a second wireless communication device; receiving, at the message server, a request to deliver the short message to the first address of the first wireless communication device; performing, at the message server, the following acts in response to the request: sending, from the message server, the short message to the first address for delivery, via the wireless communication network, to the first wireless communication device operating in the wireless communication network; identifying the second address of the second wireless communication device through the stored association with the first address; and additionally sending, from the message server, the short message to the second address for delivery, via the wireless communication network, to the second wireless communication device operating in the wireless communication network, so that the short message is delivered to both the first and the second wireless communication devices in response to the request.