Method and system for pushing electronic messages to a wireless portable device using a standard mail server interface
US7801959B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 31, 2001 |
| Grant date | Sep 21, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 8, 2022 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L51/214
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and system for pushing electronic messages to a wireless device using an Internet NPS server with standard electronic mail interface. The NPS server, in one embodiment, mimics a SMTP mail server on the front end to generate pushed email notifications and pushed content packets in response to received emails addressed to a recognized device user. In one embodiment, the wireless devices receive notifications containing a subset of the email messages sent to the server and may alert the user when they are received. The NPS server functions to monitor the SMTP communication between its own mail server and the email sender to format a received email message into a 15 notification. The original email message is stored or its pathway recorded. Once received by the wireless device, the user may select the notification, causing the remainder of the corresponding email message to be wirelessly downloaded to the device.
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