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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2001
Hervé Provost, Seyssinet-Pariset, FR;
David Picquenot, Saint Contest, FR;
Hervé Provost, Seyssinet-Pariset, FR;
David Picquenot, Saint Contest, FR;
France Telecom, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A system for acknowledging that a message sent by a sender terminal and received on a destination mobile terminal has been read. The sender terminal comprises a module for: a) supplying the identifier of a destination mobile terminal for the message; b) generating the text of the message to be sent; and c) specifying a method of returning the read acknowledgment, accompanied by an associated identifier. The mobile terminal comprises a module for: displaying the message sent by the sender terminal, and for sending a read acknowledgment using the specified method of return.