Method for immediate delivery of email to telecommunication terminals

• US 20070156817A1
• Filed: 04/01/2004
• Published: 07/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Darpel, Hendrik, Daffner, Klaus, Hake, Jens
• Application Number:
  US10/550,914
• Publication Number:
  US 20070156817A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• 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: H04M 2203/4536 Voicemail combined with text-based messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/184 Messaging devices, e.g. message centre

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for immediately transmitting electronic messages to the telecommunication device of a receiver, preferably mobile, consisting in transmitting the electronic message from an emitter to a receiver by means of an electronic message server. According to said invention, the electronic messages are transmitted to the mobile telecommunication device of the receiver by means of a MMS or WAP system.

Claims

1. A method for immediate delivery of an e-mail to a telecommunication device of a recipient via at least one telecommunication network, wherein the e-mail is transmitted from a sender via an e-mail server to the recipient, comprising the steps of

delivering the e-mail to a telecommunication terminal of the recipient via conventional MMS or WAP push systems, in that the e-mails are forwarded from the e-mail server to a specially configured push mail server based on the e-mail address of the recipient, from where they are delivered to the telecommunication terminal based on a telephone number, which is included in the e-mail or determined from a database, via conventional MMS or WAP push systems.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein a subscriber account is established for each subscriber on the push mail server, the subscriber account including at least the telephone number of at least one telecommunication terminal and the original e-mail address of the recipient.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein forwarding of the e-mail from the e-mail server to the push mail server is controlled by a device and by applying forwarding rules.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the push mail server determines the telephone number of the telecommunication terminal of the recipient from the employed push mail address.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the push mail server is connected to the MMS or WAP push systems of the employed telecommunication network.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the function of the push mail server is integrated directly in the existing e-mail server.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the push mail server encapsulates the e-mail in a suitable content type, so that the e-mail can be transmitted via MMS or WAP push format.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein a “

message/rfc822”

is employed as a content type.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the push mail server includes a billing mechanism, which is used to produce toll tickets for the billing system of telecommunication network operators or other service providers.

10. The method according to one of the preceding claims, wherein a conventional WAP client or MMS client, which detects and processes encapsulated e-mails, is installed in the telecommunication terminal.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein, if message units encapsulated with the special content type are detected, the e-mail contained therein is extracted and transmitted to the e-mail client of the telecommunication terminal.

12. A device for immediate delivery of e-mails to a telecommunication device of a recipient via at least one telecommunication network, with an e-mail server for transmitting the e-mails from a sender to the recipient, comprising

a telecommunication network including MMS or WAP push systems, and

a push server connected with the e-mail server for immediate delivery of the e-mails received by the e-mail server to the communication terminal of the recipient.

13. The device according to claim 12, wherein the telecommunication terminal is a mobile telecommunication terminal.

14. The device according to claim 12, wherein the telecommunication terminal is a landline telecommunication terminal.