Portable Communication Devices and Context Dependent Messaging
AssigneeSony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
InventorsDavid Cronstrom, Hans-Olof Olsson
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Abstract
A method for sending a message from a first device to a second communication device via a network includes determining and downloading a background media part via the network to the first device. The background media part may be based on the current status of the first device and may be included as a background part of a message. The method may also include sending the message from the first device to the network arrangement for further transportation to the second communication device.
Claims17
1-16. (canceled)
In a first communication device that is configured to communicate to a second communication device via a network device, the first communication device including a communication arrangement and a message control unit, a method comprising:
- downloading, to the first communication device, a background media portion from the network device based on a status of the first communication device;
- generating a message that includes the background media portion;
- and
- sending the message from the first communication device to the second communication device via the network device.
A communication device configured to communicate to another communication device via a network device, the communication device comprising:
- a message control unit configured to:
- download, based on a current status of the communication device, a background media portion from the network device,
- generate a message that includes the background media portion, and
- a communication arrangement to send the message from the communication device to the other communication device via the network device.
A computer-readable medium configured to store instructions executable by at least one processor of a portable device to cause the at least one processor to:
- download a background media portion from a network arrangement based on a current status of the portable device,
- generate a message that includes the background media portion;
- and
- send the message to the network arrangement for forwarding to a destination device.
A distribution system for transmitting via a transmission medium computer data signals representing device readable instructions for a method of sending a message from a first communication device to a second communication device via a network arrangement, the method comprising:
- downloading a background media portion from the network arrangement based on a current status of the first communication device;
- generating a message that includes the background media portion;
- and sending the message to the network arrangement for forwarding to the second communication device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.