Patent ID: 8688150

Claim:
A method of communicating a multimodal message in a multimodal SMS communication, the method comprising: creating a voice message by recording said voice message on a multimodal platform; generating an SMS message containing a link to the voice message on the multimodal platform, wherein said link when activated allows a recipient to retrieve the voice message; assigning a unique message identifier to the voice message stored on the multimodal platform, wherein each said message identifier comprises a single recipient identifier combined with one of a predefined number of network identifiers for uniquely identifying each said voice message for each recipient, wherein the message identifier is assigned by a network pool, and wherein the unique message identifier is associated with the recipient; adding the message identifier to the SMS message; storing the message identifier with the SMS message; and transmitting the SMS message to the recipient via a connection that comprises a wireless network for notifying said recipient of said voice message and for providing said link to said recipient; wherein the multimodal message contains audio, text, or both audio and text.