In this paper, we briefly describe the design and implementation of the “Keep in Touch” (KiT) intergenerational communications system. The KiT system is a communications appliance aimed to support low-overhead, easy to use inter-household messaging and conferencing between family members and close friends. We discuss the original audio-messaging implementation of KiT and extensions to photo mes...

We introduce a seamless messaging system for the management of personal messages. The aim of it is to intercept, filter, interpret, and deliver multi-modal messages (voice, fax, and/or e-mail messages). Messages are delivered to the recipient regardless of their target messaging device. Seamless messaging involves finding the person (if urgent) and delivering the information to them on their ce...

Mobile messaging services have gained a large share in global telecommunications. Unlike conventional services like phone calls, text messages or email, they do not feature a standardized environment enabling a federated and potentially local service architecture. We present an extensive and large-scale analysis of communication patterns for four popular mobile messaging services between 28 cou...

With the rise of Peer-to-Peer and Grid infrastructures, there is a renewed interest in messaging systems. Among the numerous messaging solutions for large loosely coupled distributed environments, the communication and messaging system of the JXTA peer-to-peer platform is the richest in features. This paper presents a comprehensive performance analysis of the JXTA messaging system and its appli...

Web Services hold the promise of a standards-based platform for automating the integration of applications over diverse networks, operating systems and programming languages. Reliable messaging is critical in this context; many enterprise systems require a messaging infrastructure that guarantees message delivery even in the presence of software and network failures. Using existing message-orie...