SOCIAL MESSAGING HUB SYSTEM

摘要

A social messaging hub provides communication services for a data enabled device having Internet network access capabilities such as a portable media player, personal digital assistant, a Wi-Fi mobile platform, a tablet computer, portable e-Reader, a personal computer, a laptop and a netbook computer. The social messaging hub communicates with the data enabled device over the Internet or cellular data networks, and interfaces with a message infrastructure including mobile carriers, message aggregators, message exchanges and various specialized social messaging services. Messages may originate in or be delivered to other users' mobile telephones or in similarly equipped and provisioned IP data enabled devices. The social messaging hub can provide a predetermined auto-reply response and retain messages for a timed duration in a message retention queue when requested by a user. Messages may be viewed with a data enabled device application at various zoom levels.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for controlling reception of SMS messages to be delivered to a data enabled device, the method comprising:
registering the data enabled device with a social messaging hub with a unique identifier; receiving a message from a message source through a message service directed to a user's data enabled device registered with the unique identifier obtained from the message source; providing the message using an inbound service; establishing a connection between a data enabled device and the inbound service; receiving a request to suspend message delivery and retain messages on the social messaging hub; providing a predetermined auto-reply response to an originator of the message; and retaining the messages in a message retention queue on the social messaging hub.