Patent ID: 8438231

Claim:
A telecommunication messaging system comprising: a control system operable to receive telecommunication messages from a telecommunication network that are addressed by users to a directory number assigned to a phone, wherein the phone is operated by a member of a web-based social networking service and the telecommunication messages are received at the phone from multiple other phones, the control system further operable to collect the telecommunication messages for the phone received via the telecommunication network; and a user interface operable to provide a telecommunication messaging page to display the collected telecommunication messages to the member as part of a website for the social networking service, to distinguish telecommunication messages addressed to the directory number that involve other members of the social networking service from telecommunication messages addressed to the directory number that do not involve other members of the social networking service based on input from the control system, and to highlight the telecommunication messages that involve other members in the telecommunication messaging page.