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(19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2003/0109248 A1

Lewis (43) Pub. Date: Jun. 12, 2003

(54) SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUERYING Related US. Application Data MESSAGE INFORMATION

(60) Provisional application No. 60/332,376, ?led on Nov. 16, 2001.

76 ~ I l . ( ) Inventor. John Ervln Lewis, Lawrenceville, GA Publication Classi?cation (Us)

_ (51) Int. Cl.7 .................................................. .. H04M 11/10 Correspondence Address. _ CINGULAR WIRELESS (52) US. Cl. .......................................... .. 455/412, 455/415

5565 GLENRIDGE CONNECTOR, 9TH (57) ABSTRACT FLOOR MC 920 A method for querying message information includes C/O LINDA GILES, SYSTEM ANALYST assigning a unique identi?er to a message transmitted in a ATLANTA, GA 30342 (US) Wireless network, providing the unique identi?er to a Wire

less device associated With the message, receiving the (21) Appl. No.: 10/299,182 unique identi?er in a query request, and retrieving the

message information from the Wireless netWork based on the (22) Filed: Nov. 18, 2002 unique identi?er.

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