| abstract |
Systems and methods are provided for messaging with mobile devices (e.g., cellular phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs)) and, more particularly, to systems and methods for messaging multiple media with mobile devices. In one aspect, systems and methods are provided that allow mobile users to collaborate with users of another devices on an ongoing basis through-multimedia messaging MMS (e.g., messaging with text, images, video and/or audio). For example, i n one embodiment, multimedia messages generated by mobile and non-mobile devices are automatically tagged with identifying meta-information (e.g., author, date, time and/or location) prior to persisting (i.e., storing) the messages and associated meta-information as 'documents' (or portions thereof) remotely from the message sender(s) and recipient(s). The documents are maintained in the remote storage even after the message(s) are communicated to the recipient(s), which allows the message(s) to be, for example, searched and/or sorted based on the meta-information and accessed for future reference, revision and/or re-use of the multimedia content. Additionally, the sender(s) and recipient(s) may be designated s document participants, thereby establishing an association that creates a mess aging community between the participants. |