Patent ID: 8620361

Claim:
A system, comprising: a memory to store instructions; and a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the instructions to perform operations, comprising: receiving a multimedia messaging service message comprising text; determining whether the multimedia messaging service message is a group message directed to addressees; in response to determining that the multimedia messaging service message is the group message, determining whether the group message is directed to an addressee of the addressees based on a code of a defined length; in response to determining that the group message is directed to the addressee based on the code of the defined length, determining whether the group message is a text-only message; in response to determining that the group message is the text-only message, converting the group message to a first short message service message based on the text; and sending, based on a short message service protocol using the code, the first short message service message directed to a device associated with the addressee.