SYSTEM AND METHOD OF POLLING ELECTRONIC MAILBOXES
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Abstract
A communications system includes a polling agent that can be part of a mobile office platform for polling an electronic mailbox to retrieve unique identifiers (UID'"'"'s) of electronic messages. A database stores the UID'"'"'s resulting from the polling operation. The polling agent is operative for polling the electronic mailbox and retrieving only those UID'"'"'s that are newer than the UID'"'"'s from a previous polling to determine that new messages are available.
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57 Claims
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34. A communications system comprising:
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a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices; and a mobile office platform configured to access a plurality of electronic mailboxes of a given mobile wireless communications device using a plurality of respective protocol specific connectors; said mobile office platform also configured to poll a given electronic mailbox to retrieve and store unique identifiers (UID'"'"'s) of electronic messages resulting from polling, and determine and compare a total number of electronic messages on the given electronic mailbox to a threshold, and if the threshold is exceeded, then poll and retrieve only those UID'"'"'s that are newer than at least one UID from a previous polling. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. A communications system comprising:
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at least one mobile wireless communications device; and a mobile office platform configured to access a plurality of electronic mailboxes of said at least one mobile wireless communications device using a plurality of respective protocol specific connectors; said mobile office platform also configured to poll a given electronic mailbox to retrieve and store unique identifiers (UID'"'"'s) of electronic messages resulting from polling, determine and compare a total number of electronic messages on the given electronic mailbox to a threshold, and if the threshold is exceeded, then poll and retrieve only those UID'"'"'s that are newer than at least one UID from a previous polling, and shorten a polling interval of the given electronic mailbox based upon recent activity of the given electronic mailbox. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44)
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45. A communications method for a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices comprising:
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using a mobile office platform to access a plurality of electronic mailboxes of a given mobile wireless communications device using a plurality of respective protocol specific connectors; and further using the mobile office platform to poll a given electronic mailbox to retrieve and store unique identifiers (UID'"'"'s) of electronic messages resulting from polling, and determine and compare a total number of electronic messages on the given electronic mailbox to a threshold, and if the threshold is exceeded, then poll and retrieve only those UID'"'"'s that are newer than at least one UID from a previous polling. - View Dependent Claims (46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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51. A communications system comprising:
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a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices; and a mobile office platform configured to access a plurality of electronic mailboxes of a given mobile wireless communications device using a plurality of respective protocol specific connectors; said mobile office platform also configured to poll a given electronic mailbox to retrieve and store unique identifiers (UID'"'"'s) of electronic messages resulting from polling, and then poll and retrieve only those UID'"'"'s that are newer than at least one UID from a previous polling. - View Dependent Claims (52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57)
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Specification