Patent ID: 8335528

Claim:
A system for electronic messaging, comprising: a first device adapted to send and receive electronic messages using a short message service protocol of a wireless communications network; and a plurality of second devices adapted to send and receive electronic messages using a short message service protocol of a wireless communications network; wherein the first device assembles a plurality of electronic messages using a short message service protocol to send to a plurality of second devices, each of the plurality of assembled electronic messages comprising a primary destination address of one of the plurality of second devices and a plurality of additional destination addresses corresponding to each of the remainder of the plurality of second devices, the additional destination addresses contained in a user data header information element of the electronic message corresponding to an IEI unreserved by industry standards and sends each of the plurality of electronic messages to the one of the plurality of second devices specified by its primary destination address; and further wherein each one of the second devices receives an electronic message from the first device comprising all of the destination addresses entered by the first device into the plurality of electronic messages sent to the plurality of second devices.