Patent ID: 7447743

Claim:
A method for processing data in a wireless communication network comprising: receiving at a gateway for the wireless communication network at least one electronic message having at least one attachment associated therewith; processing the at least one electronic message based on characteristics of the at least one electronic message including size and type of the at least one electronic message and based on characteristics of the at least one attachment including size and type of the at least one attachment, wherein a determination is made whether to remove a respective attachment from the at least one electronic message; in response to a determination being made to remove one or more attachments from an electronic message, providing the electronic message with one or more indicia tags for the one or more attachments being removed from the electronic message, the one or more indicia tags being derived from the characteristics of the one or more attachments including identifying information for the gateway and size and type characteristics; forwarding the electronic message to the recipient with the one or more indicia tags and without the one or more attachments; displaying the size and type of the one or more attachments that were removed from the electronic message as indicated by the one or more indicia tags in the electronic message; receiving instructions from the recipient for processing an attachment that was removed from the electronic message and replaced with an indicia tag at a subsystem connected to the gateway, the subsystem comprising a fax machine for faxing the attachment; a database for storing the attachment; and a text-to-speech device for speaking the contents of the attachment; and processing the attachment at a plurality of the subsystems indicated by the user, wherein the gateway is configured to provide wireless communications services to interactive messaging clients and provide Internet e-mail services and user-selectable filtering and wherein the gateway is configured to provide a delivery confirmation for the message to a sender of the electronic message after the message has been delivered to the recipient over the wireless communication network.