Patent ID: 8780793

Claim:
An Access Point (AP) for providing a Short Message Service (SMS) and a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) in a wired telephone network, comprising: an access module for providing a wireless connection interface for wireless communication with a convergence terminal; a control module for controlling wireless communication and communications with the wired telephone network to provide at least one of the SMS and the MMS to the convergence terminal via the access module; a wired phone module connected to the access module and the wired telephone network, for exchanging signals of a wireless communication network with the wired telephone network under the control of the control module; a SMS modem connected to the access module and the wired telephone network, for processing transmission and reception of a short message under the control of the control module; and a MMS modem connected to the access module and the wired telephone network, for processing transmission and reception of a multimedia message under the control of the control module, wherein the wired telephone network comprises a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), wherein the MMS modem establishes a dial-in connection with a MMS gateway, and wherein the establishing the dial-in connection with the MMS gateway comprises receiving a dialing signal from the convergence terminal, sending the dialing signal to a local exchange, receiving a ring-back tone signal from the local exchange, sending the ring-back tone signal to the convergence terminal, and receiving a response signal for the ring-back tone signal from the convergence terminal.