Delivering messages in a communication system

摘要

Message delivery systems and methods for delivering messages to a computing system are described. The system uses a message ID structure and a message ID database to allow a user to check whether he or she is recipient of a new message without having to contact the message server that holds messages to be delivered. The resource load related to users checking for messages is therefore left to a separate computing system, allowing the message server to dedicate its resources to the receiving and delivering of messages.

主权项

1. A message delivery system comprising a message server including one or more computer processors configured to:
receive a message from a sending computing system and subsequently generate a message ID in response to receiving the message, the message ID being generated to identify the received message, the message being intended for a receiving computing system; cause the message ID to be pushed to a message ID database that is separate from the message server, the message ID database implemented by one or more decentralized resources of a peer-to-peer database; receive, prior to transmitting the message to the receiving computing system, a request from the receiving computing system that includes at least some information contained in the message ID, the at least some information contained in the message ID obtained from a message ID response returned by the message ID database responsive to a message ID query submitted by the receiving computing system; and responsive to receiving the request, transmit the message to the receiving computing system.