Intelligent seamless messaging

This paper describes an architectural framework for intelligently managing multimedia messaging in seamless personal information networks. The objective of seamless messaging is to intelligently tailor message handling based on user preferences and device capabilities. Messages include voice mail, email, fax, video-mail and pager messages. Because of the varying message modalities and the differing capabilities of the access devices the system must be capable of representing numerous modalities and intelligently converting messages of one modality to another. This paper presents an agent-based architecture that is under development that can provide this functionality