Patent ID: 8577398

Claim:
A method for content delivery, comprising: receiving a content request from a wireless device associated with a mobile subscriber, wherein said content request is a Short Message Service (SMS) message containing at least a content identifier; performing one or more processing steps, including: (a) retrieving content based on at least aspects of said content identifier yielding retrieved content, said retrieved content being written in a language that requires display of double-byte characters within native SMS facilities of the wireless device, (b) determining that the native SMS facilities of the wireless device are unable to display double-byte characters, (c) selecting Multimedia Message Service (MMS) message facilities as an alternative content delivery channel for at least the portion of said retrieved content including the double-byte characters, (d) altering at least the layout and organization of said retrieved content yielding altered content, wherein said altering includes rendering the double-byte characters of said retrieved content as one or more images suitable for use in a MMS message; and sending to said mobile subscriber one or more MMS messages containing the one or more images of the double-byte characters.