Patent ID: 8209392

Claim:
A communication method comprising: determining, using a message engine, a set of destination devices for one or more individual electronic messages that are based upon a first message to be transferred to, the set of destination devices including two or more destination devices, each destination device comprising an electronic messaging domain and being associated with a recipient, the individual electronic message being transferred to the set of destination devices based on at least one of: a delivery class associated with one or more recipients having a priority level associated with at least one destination group, one or more dynamic properties of the at least one destination group, and the recipients that match a set of search criteria specified by a sender; for destination devices having limited message length output capabilities only, dropping any file attachments attached to the individual electronic messages prior to the individual electronic messages being transferred to the destination device having limited message length output capabilities, the dropping being facilitated using a messaging processor; calculating a number of pieces in which the first message is to be converted and transferred; generating a message content for each of the number of pieces; transferring the individual electronic message for each piece based on the number of destination devices targeted, the individual electronic message being transferred through one or more outgoing connections from the messaging processor to the set of destination devices; and minimizing the outgoing connections by bundling together each of the destination devices having the electronic messaging domain being the same, wherein a single individual electronic message is sent to one of the outgoing connections, the one outgoing connection sending the single individual electronic message to each of the bundled together destination devices.