Patent ID: 7181231

Claim:
A Short Message Service communication method, intended for use in communicating a short message initiated by a first mobile radio terminal which is part of a first message domain, and which is capable of exchanging messages with at least one second mobile terminal which is part of a second message domain, each domain including at least one mobile radio network, one first message server conforming to a first message standard, and/or one second message server conforming to a second, different message standard, wherein: initiating a message, conforming to said first standard, from said first terminal to at least said second terminal not compatible with said first standard to which said initiated message conforms, but compatible with said second message standard; transmitting said message by said first message server to a message gateway including a database comprising a table of message profiles of terminals belonging to said second message domain with which said gateway is associated, including said second terminal; converting said initiated message, conforming to said first message standard, by said message gateway into a message conforming to said second message standard supported by said second terminal; transmitting the converted message standard by said message gateway to said second message server; and delivering said converted message standard by said second message server to said second terminal, wherein, when said first message standard is EMS or SMS, said second message standard is MMS, and, when said first message standard is MMS, said second message standard is EMS or SMS; and wherein said table of profiles contained in said message gateway of said second message domain is updated by sending from said first mobile terminal listed in said table to said message gateway an update of the message including an information element containing the message profile or profiles of said terminal, wherein said message containing user data including a header including said information element and a data text, wherein said information element includes an identification field followed by a field indicating the length of the data of said information element followed by the data of said information element and said header includes a profile information element whose identifier is associated with the updating of a message profile and whose data indicates the message standard or standards supported by the terminal which initiated said message.