METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NOTIFYING DEVICES OF NEW MESSAGES

• US 20120028660A1
• Filed: 07/28/2010
• Published: 02/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: STAFFORD, Matthew, McNamara, Justin, Mikan, Jeffrey, Wei, Qun
• Application Number:
  US12/845,565
• Publication Number:
  US 20120028660A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

In one embodiment, the present disclosure is a method and apparatus for notifying devices of new messages. In one embodiment, a method for notifying a subscriber device of the presence of a new message includes receiving the new message containing message content, and sending a notification message to the subscriber device, the notification message including a unique identifier for the new message and at least a portion of the message content.

Claims

1. A method for notifying a subscriber device of a presence of a new message, the method comprising:

receiving the new message containing message content; and

sending a notification message to the subscriber device, the notification message including a unique identifier for the new message and at least a portion of the message content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification is sent using a session initiation protocol.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification message is sent using a concatenated short messaging service protocol.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification message is sent using a hypertext transfer protocol.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a size of the notification message, including the at least a portion of the message content, is less than or equal to a predefined threshold.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the predefined threshold is subscriber-defined.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein a header of the notification message indicates that the at least a portion of the message content is incomplete when the at least a portion of the message content does not comprise all of the message content.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the subscriber device comprises one of a select number of subscriber devices that is designated for receipt of notification messages.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the number of subscriber devices is subscriber-defined.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the new message.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving a request for retrieval of the new message, the request including the unique identifier;

locating the new message using the unique identifier; and

sending the new message to a device from which the request was sent.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the unique identifier is an Internet message access protocol 4 identifier.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification message includes a header and a body, and the body of the notification message contains the unique identifier and the at least a portion of the message content.

14. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing an executable program notifying a subscriber device of a presence of a new message, where the program performs steps comprising:

receiving the new message, the new message including a header and a body, where the body contains message content; and

sending a notification message to the subscriber device, the notification message including a unique identifier for the new message and at least a portion of the message content.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the notification is sent using a session initiation protocol.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the steps further comprise:

storing the new message.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein the steps further comprise:

receiving a request for retrieval of the new message, the request including the unique identifier;

locating the new message using the unique identifier; and

sending the new message to a device from which the request was sent.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the unique identifier is an Internet message access protocol 4 identifier.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the notification message includes a header and a body, and the body of the notification message contains the unique identifier and the at least a portion of the message content.

20. A communication network, comprising:

an application server that supports at least one application through which one or more endpoints exchange a plurality of messages; and

a message store that stores the plurality of messages and sends a notification message to at least one of the plurality of endpoints when a new message is received, the notification message including a unique identifier for the new message and at least a portion of a message content contained in the new message.