Patent ID: 7711362

Claim:
A relay site associated with a wireless network for supporting communication of messages between mobile devices associated with the relay site, each of the mobile devices having a Personal Identification Number (PIN) address, wherein the relay site comprises: a relay data store having relay information for the mobile devices associated with the relay site, the relay information including PIN information, e-mail address information and user information, the PIN information including PIN address information; a relay server connected to the relay data store, the relay server being adapted to control the operation of the relay site, the relay server comprising a user lookup module for querying the relay data store for PIN information for one or more recipient users specified in a given message; and a network interface connected to the relay server, the network interface being adapted for connecting the relay site to the wireless network, wherein the messages have a message type including e-mail, PIN and pseudo-PIN, and a pseudo-PIN message is a PIN message with at least one e-mail address specified in an address field of the PIN message.