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Abstract

A technique is disclosed for more conveniently creating a message at a wireless terminal and sending the message to a user-specified group of one or more recipients. The illustrative embodiment of the present invention, for the purposes of creating and sending a message, essentially rearranges the conventional wireless communication paradigm. The conventional paradigm consists of first specifying a destination address (e.g., dialed digits of the called party, etc.), then hitting the 'SEND' key, and then communicating. Instead, the illustrative embodiment specifies first communicating (i.e., creating a message), then specifying one or more destination addresses, and then hitting the 'SEND' key. This is beneficial in that this new paradigm takes into account the notion that communication, particularly communication from a wireless terminal, is often impulsive, and that email, or other user-defined messaging, when conducted on a wireless terminal, should conform to this notion to be most effective and convenient.

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