System for personal messaging

An apparatus for conveying an ordered sequence of frames of a message, at least one frame including both a picture and associated text, the message being conveyed at least in part using a bearer service of a wireless communications network, the apparatus comprising:

• a) means for assembling a plurality of frames of the message in a desired order, at least one frame including text and either a picture or a bookmark to a picture;
• b) means for indicating a recipient of the message;
• c) means for indicating that the message is to be sent to the indicated recipient;
• wherein the means for indicating that the message is to be sent to the indicated recipient requires on the part of a sender a single action to be performed for all of the frames of the message rather than for each frame of the message, thereby providing to the recipient a message consisting of a plurality of frames in the desired order.

A system, comprising:

• i) an apparatus for conveying an ordered sequence of frames of a message, at least one frame including both a picture and associated text, the message being conveyed at least in part using a bearer service of a wireless communications network, the apparatus comprising:
• a) means for assembling a plurality of frames of the message in a desired order, at least one frame including text and either a picture or a bookmark to a picture;
• b) means for indicating a recipient of the message;
• c) means for indicating that the message is to be sent to the indicated recipient;
• wherein the means for indicating that the message is to be sent to the indicated recipient requires on the part of a sender a single action to be performed for all of the frames of the message rather than for each frame of the message;
• and
• ii) means for providing a picture in response to a request for the picture;
• thereby providing to the recipient a message consisting of a plurality of frames in the desired order.