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System and method of polling electronic mailboxes

  • US 20050171996A1
  • Filed: 01/29/2004
  • Published: 08/04/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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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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