System and method of polling electronic mailboxes
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1. A communications system comprising:
- a polling agent for polling an electronic mailbox to retrieve unique identifiers (UID'"'"'s) of electronic messages; and
a database for storing the UID'"'"'s resulting from the polling, wherein the polling agent is operative for polling the electronic mailbox and retrieving only those UID'"'"'s that are newer than the UID'"'"'s from a previous polling to determine that new messages are available.
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Abstract
A communications system includes a polling agent that can be part of a mobile office platform for polling an electronic mailbox to retrieve unique identifiers (UID'"'"'s) of electronic messages. A database stores the UID'"'"'s resulting from the polling operation. The polling agent is operative for polling the electronic mailbox and retrieving only those UID'"'"'s that are newer than the UID'"'"'s from a previous polling to determine that new messages are available.
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33 Claims
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1. A communications system comprising:
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a polling agent for polling an electronic mailbox to retrieve unique identifiers (UID'"'"'s) of electronic messages; and
a database for storing the UID'"'"'s resulting from the polling, wherein the polling agent is operative for polling the electronic mailbox and retrieving only those UID'"'"'s that are newer than the UID'"'"'s from a previous polling to determine that new messages are available. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A communications system comprising:
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a wireless communications device having a mail user agent;
a mobile office platform operative with the mail user agent for accessing one or more electronic mailboxes of the mail user agent using a plurality of protocol specific connectors, said mobile office platform including a polling agent for polling an electronic mailbox of the mail user agent to retrieve unique identifiers (UID'"'"'s) of electronic messages, and a database for storing the UID'"'"'s resulting from the polling, wherein the polling agent is operative for polling the electronic mailbox and retrieving only those UID'"'"'s that are newer than the UID'"'"'s from previous polling to determine that new messages are available. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of polling electronic mailboxes comprising the step of:
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polling an electronic mailbox to retrieve unique identifiers (UID'"'"'s) of electronic messages; and
retrieving only those UID'"'"'s that are newer than the UID'"'"'s from a previous polling to determine that new messages are available. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A method of polling electronic mailboxes comprising the steps of:
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retrieving a webpage that contains a list of most recent messages received within an electronic mailbox;
storing the unique identifiers (UID'"'"'s) starting with the most recent messages stored within the list; and
storing the UID'"'"'s until a UID is seen that was retrieved within a previous poll indicative that all UID'"'"'s stored in a current poll are from new messages. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28)
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29. A method of polling electronic mailboxes comprising the steps of:
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polling an electronic mailbox by issuing a command to retrieve the current number of messages located on a mail server and retrieving the unique identifier (UID) of the most recent message; and
checking if the UID of the most recent message is in a list of stored UID'"'"'s obtained from previous polls. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33)
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