Patent ID: 7738887

Claim:
A messaging system comprising: a processor; a wireless communication link coupled to the processor and configured to enable mobile device communication, wherein the wireless communication link is managed by a virtual connection protocol configured to manage and sequence a plurality of transmission control protocol (TCP) connection events; and a messaging service operated by the processor and configured to: receive a recorded voice clip from a mobile communication enabled device, the recorded voice clip being received via the wireless communication link, wherein the recorded voice clip is a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) message that is separated into a plurality of text-based components and a plurality of independent binary components, each binary component being references by one of the text-based components, one of the text-based components and one of the binary components each having been transmitted as a separate packet without the use of Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME); and process the recorded voice clip for communication via a data network to a computing based device that renders an audio message from the recorded voice clip.