Content-Based Notification and User-Transparent Pull Operation for Simulated Push Transmission of Wireless Email

摘要

Exemplary system, method, software and apparatus embodiments provide for creating a content-based notification for a mobile device, as a simulated push operation, for devices which do not have push capability. The system comprises a database, a server, and may also include a second web server for user account configuration. The database is adapted to store user account configuration and preference information. The server is adapted to receive a first message having a first protocol, such as SMTP, and to determine whether the content-based notification for the first message should be provided. When the content-based notification is to be provided, the server is adapted to extract a subset of information from the first message, and using the subset of information, to create a second message having a second, different protocol, such as SMS. The second message is transferred to a wireless network for transmission to the mobile device, with the second message providing the content-based notification of the first message. The information extracted from the first message enables a user to determine whether they want to download the complete message, as a user-transparent pull operation, and typically includes the from, to, size, date, subject fields, and a portion of the body of the first message, up to the remaining capacity of the second message.

主权项

1. A method of creating a notification for a mobile device, the notification having information content, the method comprising:
receiving a first message of a plurality of messages, the plurality of messages transmitted using a Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) or an extension of SMTP, each message of the plurality of messages having a plurality of fields; selecting one or more fields of the plurality of fields from the first message to extract a subset of information, the one or more selected fields having been predetermined, the one or more selected fields comprising at least one field selected from the group consisting of: a “FROM” field; a “TO” field; a “DATE” field; a “SIZE” field; a “SUBJECT” field; a “CC” field; a “BODY” field; an attachment type; an attachment name; a number of attachments; an attachment size; an inserted tag; an inserted message; an inserted banner; an inserted spam score; an email group designation; a user-defined field; and combinations thereof; using the extracted subset of information, creating a second message comprising data to be used for the information content of the notification of the first message, the information content for subsequent transmission to the mobile device using a communication protocol selected from the group consisting of: an Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), an extension of XMPP, a Short Message Service (SMS) protocol, an extension of SMS, a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), an Internet Protocol (IP), and combinations thereof; encapsulating the second message as a data payload in a third message having at least one protocol selected from the group consisting of: a Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP), an extension of Simple Mail Transport Protocol, a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), an Internet Protocol (IP), SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) for Instant Messaging and Presence Leverage Extensions (SIMPLE), Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) or an extension of XMPP, Instant Messaging (IM), and combinations thereof; providing an address header for the third message for the mobile device; and transmitting the third message to a server for the extraction of the data payload and the subsequent transmission of the information content over a wireless network to the mobile device.