System and Method for Bundling Information

• US 20080077707A1
• Filed: 09/04/2007
• Published: 03/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Castell, David, Lazaridis, Mihal, Vander Veen, Raymond, Mousseau, Gary, Linkert, Barry, Ferguson, Tabitha
• Granted Patent: US 8,024,416 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/238
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1787 Details of non-transparently synchronising file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/275 Synchronous replication
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• 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 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold

Abstract

A system and method of pushing user-selected data items from a host system to a user'"'"'s mobile data communication device upon detecting the occurrence of one or more user-defined event triggers is provided. The user may then move (or file) the data items to a particular folder within a folder hierarchy stored in the mobile data communication device, or may execute some other system operation on the data item. Software operating at the mobile device and the host system then synchronizes the folder hierarchy of the mobile device with a folder hierarchy of the host system, and any actions executed on the data items at the mobile device are then automatically replicated on the same data items stored at the host system, thus eliminating the need for the user to manually replicate actions at the host system that have been executed at the mobile data communication device.

Claims

1-14. -14. (canceled)

15. A method of redirecting data items from a messaging server via a wireless network, the method comprising:

setting a redirection flag configured for a user associated with a mobile communication device to enable redirection of data items thereto from the messaging server until the redirection flag is reset to indicate cessation of redirection of the data items;

automatically detecting arrival of data items for the user at the messaging server from one or more senders, the data items being addressed to the user'"'"'s mail address associated with the messaging server;

determining a delivery level provisioned for the user with respect to redirection of data items; and

responsive to the delivery level, applying a delivery rule with respect to the data items received for the user to bundle at least a portion of the data items for transmission to the user'"'"'s mobile communication device via the wireless network.

16. The method as recited in claim 15, wherein the redirection flag is set responsive to a command received from the mobile communication device.

17. The method as recited in claim 15, wherein the redirection flag is reset responsive to a command received from the mobile communication device.

18. The method as recited in claim 15, further comprising encrypting the at least a portion of the data items prior to the transmission via the wireless network.

19. The method as recited in claim 15, wherein the arrival of the data items is automatically detected responsive to receipt of an automatically generated notification from the messaging server.

20. A system for redirecting data items from a messaging server via a wireless network, the system comprising:

means for setting a redirection flag configured for a user associated with a mobile communication device to enable redirection of data items thereto from the messaging server until the redirection flag is reset to indicate cessation of redirection of the data items;

means for automatically detecting arrival of data items for the user at the messaging server from one or more senders, the data items being addressed to the user'"'"'s mail address associated with the messaging server;

means for determining a delivery level provisioned for the user with respect to redirection of data items; and

means, responsive to the delivery level, for applying a delivery rule with respect to the data items received for the user to bundle at least a portion of the data items for transmission to the user'"'"'s mobile communication device via the wireless network.

21. The system as recited in claim 20, wherein the means for setting a redirection flag is operable responsive to a command received from the mobile communication device.

22. The system as recited in claim 20, wherein the redirection flag is reset responsive to a command received from the mobile communication device.

23. The system as recited in claim 20, further comprising means for encrypting the at least a portion of the data items prior to the transmission via the wireless network.

24. The system as recited in claim 20, wherein the means for automatically detecting arrival of the data items is operable responsive to receipt of an automatically generated notification from the messaging server.

25. The system as recited in claim 20, wherein the delivery rule comprises a criterion relating to how long the bundled data items are to be delayed before transmission to the user'"'"'s mobile communication device.

26. A computer-accessible medium having instructions which when executed by a processing entity of a computer operate to redirect data items from a messaging server via a wireless network, comprising:

a code portion for configuring a redirection flag for a user associated with a mobile communication device to enable redirection of data items thereto from the messaging server until the redirection flag is reconfigured to indicate cessation of redirection of the data items;

a code portion for automatically detecting arrival of data items for the user at the messaging server from one or more senders, the data items being directed to the user'"'"'s mail address associated with the messaging server;

a code portion for determining a delivery level provisioned for the user with respect to redirection of data items; and

a code portion, operable responsive to the delivery level, for applying a delivery rule with respect to the data items received for the user to bundle at least a portion of the data items for transmission to the user'"'"'s mobile communication device via the wireless network.

27. The computer-accessible medium as recited in claim 26, wherein the code portion for configuring a redirection flag is operable responsive to a command received from the mobile communication device.

28. The computer-accessible medium as recited in claim 26, wherein the redirection flag is reconfigured responsive to a command received from the mobile communication device.

29. The computer-accessible medium as recited in claim 26, further comprising a code portion for encrypting the at least a portion of the data items prior to the transmission via the wireless network.

30. The computer-accessible medium as recited in claim 26, wherein the code portion for automatically detecting arrival of the data items is operable responsive to receipt of an automatically generated notification from the messaging server.