Patent ID: 7653691

Claim:
A method of communicating, comprising: a client device generating a data message comprising textual content intended to be received by one or more mobile devices; the client device transmitting the data message to a message authority; a message authority receiving the data message, associating an identifier associated with a mobile device with one of a plurality of intermediate addresses associated with the message authority, including or appending the intermediate address to the data message, and forwarding the data message to the mobile device; the mobile device receiving the data message and displaying the textual content, without the need for the mobile device to initiate a connection with the message authority to collect the data massage; the mobile device causing a voice reply to the data message to be generated by speaking into the mobile device using a transmit action, wherein generating the voice reply comprises initiating a native voice call from the mobile device to the intermediate address associated with the message authority only, and to no other address; the mobile device associating the voice reply with the identifier that identifies the mobile device; the mobile device transmitting the voice reply to the message authority via the native voice call; and the message authority, determining a destination address for the voice reply by reference to a combination of the mobile device identifier and the intermediate address; the message authority, converting spoken reply to a voice message and relaying the voice message to the determined destination address.