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Integrated real time and polled electronic messaging system and method

  • US 20020026513A1
  • Filed: 03/19/2001
  • Published: 02/28/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2000
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A communications system for transmitting and/or receiving signals with at least two communication devices via a real time and/or a polled transmission, said communications system comprising:

  • at least one first gateway responsively communicable with at least a first communications device and at least a second communications device, wherein said at least one first gateway at least one of transmits and receives signals on a real time basis with the at least one first communications device and the at least one second communications device;

    at least one second gateway responsively communicable with the at least one first communications device and at least a third communications device, wherein said at least one second gateway at least one of transmits and receives signals on a polled basis with the at least one first communications device and the at least one third communications device, said at least one first gateway and said at least one second gateway are operatively connectable to each other to perform the real time and the polled transmission based upon predetermined criteria, said at least one second gateway comprising;

    a scheduler determining which of the at least one first communication devices are active;

    a device action manager receiving notification from said scheduler and monitoring which of said at least one first communication devices have requested to download a message from said at least one third communications device;

    a download manager receiving notification via said scheduler at which time messages associated with each of the at least one first communications device are to be downloaded;

    a message lookup manager determining an identifier associated with each message associated with each of the at least one first communications device and selecting those messages that have not been downloaded from the at least one third communications device to the respective first communications device; and

    a message processor for retrieving messages from the third communications device and transmitting the messages to the respective designated first communications device as determined by a selection system.

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