Patent ID: 7317697

Claim:
A method for handling a message including an attachment sent to a wireless device within a wireless network, wherein the wireless device is not capable of displaying the attachment, the method comprising: receiving via a first network transport bus a message with an attachment within the wireless network, wherein the first network transport bus communicatively connects a plurality of network elements and utilizes a common messaging format for communication among and between the network elements, wherein the network elements comprise a plurality of adaptive routing concentrators, a plurality of routing and validation entities, and a plurality of network databases all communicatively connected to the first network transport bus, and wherein at least one routing and validation entity is communicatively connected to a user alias database and a routing and validation database via a second network transport bus; detecting the attachment; translating with at least one adaptive routing concentrator the received message and the received attachment into the common messaging format for storage in at least one network database, wherein the network database is communicatively connected to the first network transport bus; retrieving the message from the first network transport bus in the common messaging format with at least one routing and validation entity and validating the retrieved message by comparing at least one of an originating address or a destination address to a list of approved addresses, wherein the list of approved addresses is stored in the user alias database that is communicatively connected to the first network transport bus; accessing with at least one routing and validation entity the routing and validation database to locate a forwarding address associated with the wireless device, wherein a user of the wireless device had selected and stored information relating to a preferred destination device in the routing and validation database; and sending the attachment to the preferred forwarding address.