METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING EMAILS THROUGH DATA SYNCHRONIZATION

• US 20090157831A1
• Filed: 09/22/2008
• Published: 06/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: CHENG, Jianzhang, GUO, Xiangzhou, KANG, Jiao, TIAN, Linyi
• Application Number:
  US12/235,224
• Publication Number:
  US 20090157831A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• 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 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method, a system, and an apparatus for processing emails through data synchronization. The email synchronization server receives an email or email status sent by the email server and synchronizes it to the email synchronization client; alternatively, the email synchronization server is adapted to receive an email from the email synchronization client and forward it to the email server for sending the email out, or receive an email status from the email synchronization client and forward it to the email server for updating. The email synchronization client is adapted to send an email or email status to the email synchronization server; or synchronously receive emails or email status from the email synchronization server, or obtain emails and email status from the email synchronization server after receiving an email notification.

Claims

1. An email synchronization server, comprising:

an email management module, adapted to receive an email or email status from the email server or generate an email notification;

a command resolution/generation module, adapted to convert the email, email status, or email notification into the synchronous data format; and

a data synchronization module, adapted to send the email, email status, or email notification in the synchronous data format to the email synchronization client;

or,

a data synchronization module, adapted to receive an email or email status in the synchronous data format from the email synchronization client;

a command resolution/generation module, adapted to convert the email or email status in the synchronous data format into an email or email status in the general format; and

an email management module, adapted to send the email to the email server for forwarding the email out or send the email status to the email server for updating.

2. The email synchronization server of claim 1, wherein the email management module comprises:

a user interface, adapted to interact with the email synchronization server by the user under the instruction of a central processing module;

an email server interaction module, adapted to interact with the email server under the instruction of the central processing module; and

a central processing module, adapted to coordinate the work of the email server interaction module and the user interface, and interact with the command resolution/generation module.

3. The email synchronization server of claim 1, wherein the data synchronization module comprises:

a security module, adapted to ensure secure transmission of email or email status between the email synchronization client and the email synchronization server;

a device capability interaction module, adapted to interact device capabilities between the email synchronization server and the email synchronization client; and

a transmission module, adapted to transmit emails or email status between the email synchronization server and the email synchronization client.

4. The email synchronization server of claim 1, wherein the email server is integrated into the email synchronization server to interact with the email management module.

5. An email synchronization client, comprising:

an email management module, adapted to obtains an email or email status;

a command resolution/generation module, adapted to convert the email or email status into a synchronous data format; and

a data synchronization module, adapted to send the email or email status in the synchronous data format to the email synchronization server;

or

a data synchronization module, adapted to receives an email, email status, or email notification in a synchronous data format;

a command resolution/generation module, adapted to convert the email, email status, or email notification in the synchronous data format into an email, email status, or email notification in the general format; and

an email management module, adapted to store the email, email status, or email notification.

6. The email synchronization client of claim 5, wherein the email management module comprises:

a user interface, adapted to interact with the email synchronization client by the user under the instruction of a central processing module;

an email storage module, adapted to store emails, email status, and account information under the instruction of the central processing module; and

a central processing module, adapted to coordinate the work of the user interface and the email storage module, and interact with the command resolution/generation module.

7. The email synchronization client of claim 5, wherein the data synchronization module comprises:

a security module, adapted to ensure secure transmission of email or email status between the email synchronization client and the email synchronization server;

a device capability interaction module, adapted to interact device capabilities between the email synchronization server and the email synchronization client; and

a transmission module, adapted to transmit emails, email status, or email notifications between the email synchronization server and the email synchronization client.

8. A method for processing emails through data synchronization, comprising:

receiving email data from an email synchronization client or an email server; and

processing the received email data and sending the processed email data to the email server or the email synchronization client.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the email data is an email, and the receiving email data from the email synchronization client comprises:

receiving the email and the email-sending command in the synchronous data format synchronized by the email synchronization client; and

processing the received email data and sending the processed email data to the email server comprises;

converting the received email in the synchronous data format into the email of the interface message format, converting the email-sending command to an interface message, and sending the email of the interface message format to the email server which send the email out through the SMTP, according to the interface message.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the email in the synchronous data format received by the email synchronization server is the email selected by the email synchronization client among the stored emails, or a new email generated as a result of editing the selected email.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the email data is an email, the receiving email data from the email server comprises:

receiving an email-receiving command in the synchronous data format from the email synchronization client, and receiving the email from the email server, according to the resolved email-receiving command; and

sending the processed email data to the email synchronization client comprises;

converting the acquired email into the synchronous data format, and sending the email in the synchronous data format to the email synchronization client.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the email synchronization server receives a parameter as an indication of the email-receiving command in the synchronous data format from the email synchronization client, converts the parameter and obtains a parameter set by the email synchronization server;

and determines the email or part of the email to be received, according to the parameter set by the email synchronization server and the parameter sent from the email synchronization client.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the email data is an email notification, the sending the processed email data to the email synchronization client comprises:

sending the email notification in the synchronous data format to the email synchronization client, or sending the email notification which carries the email event information received from the email server to the email synchronization client through an engine; and

converting, by the email synchronization client, the received email notification in the synchronous data format into an email notification in the general format.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the email data is an email status, the receiving email data from the email server comprises:

receiving an email-synchronizing command in the synchronous data format from the email synchronization client, and receiving the email status from the email server, according to the email-synchronizing command;

processing the received email data and sending the processed email data to the email synchronization client comprises;

converting the received email status into the synchronous data format, and sending the email status in the synchronous data format to the email synchronization client.

15. The method of claim 8, wherein before the email synchronization server receives email data from the email synchronization client or the email server, the method further comprises:

setting account information on the email synchronization server and the email synchronization client, respectively; and

authenticating, by the email synchronization server, the account information carried in the email data received from an email synchronization client, according to the account information set by the email synchronization server.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the email synchronization server setting the account information comprises:

authenticating, by the email synchronization server, the account information sent by the email synchronization client on the email server; and

setting the account information, by the email synchronization server, if the authentication succeeds.

17. The method of claim 8, wherein before the email synchronization server receives email data from the email synchronization client or the email server, the method further comprises:

setting account information on the email synchronization client; and

authenticating, by the email synchronization server, the account information carried in the email data received from an email synchronization client on the email server.

18. The method of claim 8, wherein the email data is a serial number of the email, the email synchronization server sets a mapping relationship between the Local Unique Identity (LUID) and the Global Unique Identity (GUID) of an email;

the receiving email data from the email synchronization client comprises;

receiving the LUID of the email sent by the email synchronization client;

processing the received email data and sending it to the email server comprises;

determining the GUID corresponding to the received LUID, according to the mapping relationship, determining the corresponding email according to the GUID, and sending the corresponding email out or updating.

19. The method of claim 8, wherein the email synchronization server sets a mapping relationship between the Local Unique Identity (LUID) and the Global Unique Identity (GUID) of an email;

the receiving email data from the email server comprises;

receiving the email from the email server;

the processing the received email data and sending it to the email synchronization client comprises;

determining the GUID corresponding to the received email;

determining the LUID corresponding to the GUID, according to the set mapping relationship; and

sending the LUID to the email synchronization client so that the email synchronization client can update the email corresponding to the LUID or obtain the email corresponding to the LUID from the email synchronization server.