Integrated mobile messaging system and method

• US 20050037801A1
• Filed: 07/14/2004
• Published: 02/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MCCI Corporation
• Original Assignee: MCCI Corporation
• Inventors: Moore, Terrill M.
• Granted Patent: US 8,117,266 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/550.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/23 Reliability checks, e.g. acknowledgments or fault reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/42 Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A hand held device, much like a cell phone of PDA, contains both a data server and client server along with the voice messaging of a cell phone. The server communicates through a TCP/IP stack with a local computing system via IR, short distance wireless, a serial bus or Ethernet. The data client communicates with a remote server via a voice network or wireless to the Internet also via a TCP/IP stack and wide area network. Spare network bandwidth may be used for transferring information. The information may emails that are received and stored for later review for ultimately transferring to a local computer. Status may include knowing available memory and sizes of messages. Messages that are too large may be noted for later retrieval. On-board memory includes RAM, ROM, and removable modules that may be physically run at a local computing system.

Claims

1. A handheld device comprising:

means for communicating information over a wireless network to a remote server,

means for transferring information with a local computing system client,

an information client arranged for communication with the remote server,

an information server arranged for communication with the local computing system client, and

means for storing the information in the hand held device.

2. The device of claim 1 further comprising:

means for interrogating the remote server about information meant for sending to the hand held device,

means for displaying the status of information at the remote server meant for sending to the hand held device,

means for displaying the status of information stored in the hand held device, and

means for composing responses and activating commands via both the means for communicating and the means for transferring, wherein information is;

sent;

received, acknowledged or stored, or combinations thereof.

3. The device of claim 1 further comprising means for determining available storage space and the size of messages to be stored in the device, wherein the presence of a too large message is saved.

4. The device of claim 1 wherein the means for transferring comprises a removable memory upon which information is or may be stored, wherein the memory is removed from the hand held device and inserted for reading or writing into the computing system.

5. The device of claim 1:

wherein the means for transferring comprises one or more type selected from the group consisting of a USB, Ethernet, short distance wireless, infrared, and any traditional UART.

6. The device of claim 1 wherein the information communicated uses spare network bandwidth or capacity to transfer the information on an as available basis.

7. The device of claim 1 further comprising:

a TCP/IP stack layer communicating with the information client,

a wide area network module communicating with the TCP/IP stack layer,

a radio frequency communications device and aerial for wireless communicating, the radio frequency communications device communicating with the wide area network module, wherein information is received by and sent from the information client via the radio frequency communication device, the wide area network module and the TCP/IP stack layer.

8. The device of claim 1 further comprising:

a TCP/IP stack layer communicating with the information server,

a local computer system module communicating with the TCP/IP stack layer,

a local hardware system communicating with the local computer system module, wherein voice and data information is received by and sent from the information server via the local hardware system, the local computer system module and the TCP/IP stack layer.

9. A process for communicating from the Internet to a computing system via a hand held device, the process comprising the steps of:

two way communicating information over a wireless network,

transferring voice and data information with a computing system,

first controlling the information communicated with a remote server via a wireless network, the controlling performed by an information client,

second controlling the information communicated to and from the computing system, and

storing the voice and data information in the hand held device.

10. The process of claim 9 further comprising the steps of:

interrogating the remote server about information meant for sending to the hand held device,

displaying the status of information at the remote server meant for sending to the hand held device,

displaying the status of information stored in the hand held device, and

composing responses and activating commands via both the means for communicating and the means for transferring, wherein information is;

sent, received, acknowledged or stored.

11. The process of claim 9 further comprising the step of determining available storage space and the size of messages to be stored in the device, wherein the presence of a too large message is saved.

12. The process of claim 9 wherein the transferring comprises removing memory upon which information is or may be stored, from the hand held device and inserting it for reading or writing into the computing system.

13. The process of claim 9:

wherein the information includes email.

14. The process of claim 9 further comprising the steps of:

communicating with the information client via a TCP/IP stack layer,

communicating with the TCP/IP stack layer via a wide area network module,

communicating with the wide area network module via a radio frequency communications device and aerial, wherein information is received by and sent from the information client via the radio frequency communication device, the wide area network module and the TCP/IP stack layer.

15. The process of claim 9 further comprising the steps of:

communicating with the information server via a TCP/IP stack layer,

communicating with the TCP/IP stack layer via a local computer system module,

communicating with the local computer system module via a local hardware system, wherein information is received by and sent from the information server via the local hardware system, the local computer system module and the TCP/IP stack layer.

16. The process of claim 9 wherein the first and the second controlling of the information communicated comprises the step of using spare network bandwidth or capacity to transfer the information on an as available basis.