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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
May. 06, 2004
Harri Myllynen, Helsinki, FI;
Pasi Leino, London, GB;
Antti Ohrling, London, GB;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of ihe disclosure are concerned with modification of messages en route to a destination. One such modification is the addition of third party material, such as advertisement data, to a message. A service located in the network receives the sender's message and decodes the indicated modification in order to decide how to modify the message. The message can include transmission data identifying one or more destinations and a message body identifying content thereof which is specified by a sending party. The service can select data on the basis of at least one parameter that is not directly related to the location of the sending party and the selected data are not directly related to the content of the message. The service can modify the message with the selected data. Thus, the decision as to the nature of the modification is unrelated to messages that are composed by the user.