A method, computer program product, and data processing system for compressing and abbreviating text messages at a first text messaging device for transport and subsequent interpretation at a second text messaging device is disclosed. A user-defined message length reduction profile for producing human-readable compressed text is associated with a source text message at a first text messaging device. The source text message is then shortened using abbreviations and transformation rules in the profile. The shortened text message can then be transmitted to a second text messaging device. In addition, the compression provided by the present invention, although intended to be human-readable, can be complemented with decompression software to expand the compressed and abbreviated text to its full length and verifying, using a checksum or other error detecting code, that the expanded version corresponds to the original text.
A Short Message Service (SMS) enables a sender to send an asynchronous short text message from his source device to one or more receiving devices specified by the sender that represent one or more recipients. SMS+4D embeds, and allows the recipient to elicit contextual and explanatory information concerning the meaning of the short text message from the SMS, thus creating `sideband` capability for text messages analogous to the visual and aural cues from accompanying facial and body expressiveness and the tone, timbre, pitch, and timing of a spoken message. SMS+4D may also learn, through embedded formal analysis and pattern comprehension, to associate specific contextual information to support the sender's original meaning, thereby clarifying surficially indefinite text words, phrases, or structures.
A Short Message Service (SMS) enables a sender to send an asynchronous short message (often informal) from his source device to one or more receiving devices that are specified by the sender and represent one or more recipients. The SMS associates with each particular short message specific context information about that particular message (including its originator, recipient, type, reason for sending, and the sending time). The SMS may associate further specific context information it has already about previous messages or previously-established links and patterns, without further input from the sender, and display that associated specific context information to the recipient. By parsing and analyzing the combined asynchronous short message and its associated specific context information, using cultural, linguistic, and reverse-association means, a SMS can provide context-driven support for any social or formal obligation(s) conveyed by an individual short message.
