PROCESSING AND FORWARDING MESSAGES FROM A COMPUTER NETWORK TO A FORWARDING SERVICE

摘要

A message processing and forwarding system for processing electronic messages in digital format received over a computer communication path or network (111), and forwarded over a telephone circuit switched network to user's receiver (133), such as a pager. A content processor in a message server (103) processes the received digital message in accordance with knowledge of the receiver's capabilities and user-configured message filtering information to create a customized second message suitable for handling by the user's receiver (133) at a remote physical location. Also, the system defines a distributed architecture for global paging, including multiple redundancy, to yield a robust system. In a preferred embodiment, the original digital message is part of an e-mail message received and forwarded through a conventional computer communication network (111) such as the Internet.