System and Method for Pushing Information from a Host System to a Mobile Data Communication Device in a Wireless Data Network

• US 20080045267A1
• Filed: 10/27/2007
• Published: 02/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Research In Motion Limited (Blackberry Limited)
• Inventors: Burns, Anthony, Naqvi, Noushad, Knowles, Michael, Lazaridis, Mihal, Bajar, David, Patterson, Ian, Hind, Hugh, Mousseau, Gary, Lewis, Allan
• Application Number:
  US11/925,866
• Publication Number:
  US 20080045267A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/557
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1014 based on the content of a request
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

A scheme for redirecting data to a mobile communication device from a messaging server. One embodiment comprises one or more of the following: receiving a connection request command from a store-and-forward server associated with a wireless packet data network; transmitting an address request to the store-and-forward server in response to the connection request command; and upon obtaining an IP address from the store-and-forward server, receiving a data item for a user associated with the mobile communication device over the wireless packet data network.

Claims

1. A method of communication operable with a mobile communication device disposed in a wireless packet data network, comprising:

receiving a connection request command from a store-and-forward server associated with the wireless packet data network;

transmitting an address request to the store-and-forward server in response to the connection request command; and

upon obtaining an IP address from the store-and-forward server, receiving a data item for a user associated with the mobile communication device over the wireless packet data network.

2. A mobile communication device, comprising:

means for receiving a connection request command from a store-and-forward server associated with a wireless packet data network;

means for transmitting an address request to the store-and-forward server in response to the connection request command; and

means, upon obtaining an IP address from the store-and-forward server, for receiving a data item for a user associated with the mobile communication device over the wireless packet data network.