Patent ID: 7024209

Claim:
A method in a unified messaging server, the method comprising: receiving a short message service (SMS) message by the unified messaging server according to short message peer-to-peer (SMPP) protocol; accessing by the unified messaging server a subscriber directory, according to an open network protocol, for subscriber attribute information based on the received SMS message; generating, based on the subscriber attribute information, at least one common format message based on enclosing the SMS message into the common format message by the unified messaging server; supplying the common format message by the unified messaging server to a selected destination according to a selected access protocol based on the subscriber attribute information; second generating a new SMS message including subscriber messaging information for a selected subscriber; and outputting the new SMS message for the selected subscriber according to SMPP protocol; wherein the second generating step includes: retrieving the common format message as the subscriber messaging information from a subscriber message store having a directory for the selected subscriber; and inserting the received SMS message, extracted from the retrieved common format message, into the new SMS message.