Patent ID: 8204526

Claim:
A method of handling an outgoing message in a mobile communication device, said method comprising: presenting a message composition interface for creating a being-composed message; recognizing that said being-composed message comprises a Short Messaging Service (SMS) destination address in an addressing field; determining whether a device associated with said SMS destination address is capable of concatenating multiple SMS message payloads; during composition of said being-composed message, displaying a marker in said message composition interface to indicate a point in said being-composed message at which a character limit has been met if said device associated with said SMS destination address is incapable of said concatenating; permitting editing of said being-composed message while displaying said marker; and transmitting said being-composed message as a macro SMS message where the device associated with said SMS destination address is capable of said concatenating, or, as multiple SMS message payloads where the device associated with said SMS destination address is not capable of said concatenating; and further comprising: where said message is formatted for an email message handling service, determining that said message is associated with a first destination address for said email message handling service: determining that said message is associated with a second destination address for said SMS; and passing said message to a SMS client application on said mobile communication device for said SMS with an indication of said second destination address; and wherein said SMS destination address is a first SMS destination address and further comprising: determining that said message is associated with a second SMS destination address; and passing first and second SMS message payloads of said multiple SMS message payloads to said SMS client application with an indication of said second SMS destination address.