System and method for mobile electronic messaging

A system for generating and delivering electronic mail including a voice message to an electronic address using a wireless device wherein the wireless device is capable of wireless communication, the system comprising:

• a server system including a mobile server and a voice server communicatively interconnected on a network, wherein the mobile server is further capable of communication with one or more wireless devices;
• a database system communicatively interconnected to the server system;
• wherein a first communications connection is established between the wireless device and the mobile server and the mobile server is operative with programming to:
• retrieve one or more email messages from a mail server in response to a request received from the wireless device;
• provide the wireless device access to the one or more emails;
• receive an indication from the wireless device to generate an electronic message that will include a voice message;
• receive at the mobile server an electronic address to which the electronic message will be delivered, detect at the mobile server a wireless device identifier of the wireless device, map at the mobile server the wireless device identifier to the electronic address, and store the mapping in the database system;
• wherein a second communications connection is established between the wireless device and the voice server and the voice server is operative with programming to:
• record the voice message transmitted by the wireless device;
• receive the wireless device identifier;
• retrieve the electronic address mapped to the wireless device identifier from the database system;
• store an association of the voice message with the appropriate electronic address in the database system;
• generate an electronic message including the voice message that is addressed to the appropriate electronic address;
• and
• transmit the electronic message including the voice message to the appropriate electronic address.

A computer implemented method for permitting the creation of email messages that include a reference to a voice message using a portable wireless device, the method comprising:

• at a first server,
• providing access to one or more email accounts having one or more email messages stored therein to the portable wireless device upon establishment of a first communications connection between the wireless device and the first server;
• receiving a request to generate an electronic message including a reference to a voice message from the portable wireless device;
• charging a fee to a pre-stored account;
• receiving an address for transmission of the electronic message;
• receiving a wireless device identifier from the portable wireless device;
• creating a mapping of the wireless device identifier to the address;
• storing the mapping;
• and
• at a second server,
• recording a voice message upon establishment of a second communications connection between the wireless device and the second server;
• receiving a wireless device identifier from the portable wireless device;
• retrieving the mapping of the wireless device identifier to the address;
• associating the voice message with the appropriate address using the mapping;
• generating the electronic message including the reference to the voice message;
• and
• transmitting the electronic message to the appropriate address.