Wireless email communications system providing resource updating features and related methods

• US 20070226302A1
• Filed: 03/27/2006
• Published: 09/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: TeamOn Systems Incorporated (Blackberry Limited)
• Inventors: Provo, Nathan
• Granted Patent: US 7,962,125 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

A wireless communications system may include a plurality of wireless communications networks and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices for sending and receiving wireless electronic mail (email) messages over the wireless communications networks. The system may further include a resource deployment server for storing a plurality of resource deployment packages (RDPs), where each RDP includes deployment content and deployment instructions therefor relating to sending and receiving email messages. The resource deployment server may also be for dynamically deploying RDPs to the wireless communications networks to update deployment content thereof based upon the respective deployment instructions.

Claims

1. A wireless communications system comprising:

a plurality of wireless communications networks;

a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices for sending and receiving wireless electronic mail (email) messages over said wireless communications networks; and

a resource deployment server for storing a plurality of resource deployment packages (RDPs), each RDP comprising deployment content and deployment instructions therefor relating to sending and receiving email messages;

said resource deployment server also for dynamically deploying RDPs to said wireless communications networks to update deployment content thereof based upon the respective deployment instructions.

2. The wireless communications system of claim 1 wherein said resource deployment server notifies said wireless communications networks of available RDPs.

3. The wireless communications system of claim 1 wherein said resource deployment server comprises a database module and a deployment service module cooperating therewith for storing the RDPs and deploying the RDPs to said wireless communications networks.

4. The wireless communications system of claim 1 wherein the deployment content comprises language-specific content for a plurality of different languages.

5. The wireless communications system of claim 1 wherein at least one of the RDPs is specific to a given wireless communications network.

6. The wireless communications system of claim 1 wherein said resource deployment server further comprises a plurality of proxy modules for interfacing with respective wireless communications networks.

7. The wireless communications system of claim 6 wherein said resource deployment server further comprises a World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) interface for communicating with said proxy modules.

8. The wireless communications system of claim 1 wherein said resource deployment server further comprises a cache for storing a directory of available RDPs.

9. The wireless communications system of claim 1 wherein the deployment instructions comprise Extensible Markup Language (XML) code.

10. A resource deployment server for deploying resources to a plurality of wireless communications networks over which a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices send and receive wireless electronic mail (email) messages, the resource deployment server comprising:

a database module for storing a plurality of resource deployment packages (RDPs), each RDP comprising deployment content and deployment instructions therefor relating to sending and receiving email messages; and

a deployment service module for cooperating with said database module to dynamically deploying RDPs to said wireless communications networks to update deployment content thereof based upon the respective deployment instructions.

11. The resource deployment server of claim 10 wherein said deployment service module notifies said wireless communications networks of available RDPS.

12. The resource deployment server of claim 10 wherein the deployment content comprises language-specific content for a plurality of different languages.

13. The resource deployment server of claim 10 wherein at least one of the RDPs is specific to a given wireless communications network.

14. The resource deployment server of claim 10 further comprising a plurality of proxy modules for interfacing with respective wireless communications networks.

15. The resource deployment server of claim 10 further comprising a cache for storing a directory of available RDPs.

16. A wireless communications method comprising:

storing a plurality of resource deployment packages (RDPs) on a resource deployment server, each RDP comprising deployment content and deployment instructions therefor relating to sending and receiving email messages between a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices and plurality of wireless communications networks; and

dynamically deploying RDPs from the resource deployment server to the wireless communications networks to update deployment content thereof based upon the respective deployment instructions.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein the resource deployment server notifies the wireless communications networks of available RDPS.

18. The method of claim 16 wherein the deployment content comprises language-specific content for a plurality of different languages.

19. The method of claim 16 wherein at least one of the RDPs is specific to a given wireless communications network.

20. The method of claim 16 wherein the deployment instructions comprise Extensible Markup Language (XML) code.