On-the-fly message notification system and methodology

• US 6,952,720 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2001
• Issued: 10/04/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: ONMOBILE LIVE, INC. (Onmobile Global Limited)
• Original Assignee: NMS Communications Corporation (Live Microsystems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Guedalia, David, Raanan, Gavriel
• Primary Examiner(s): Jean, Frantz B.
• Application Number:
  US09/799,263
• Publication Number:
  US 20010042136A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,674 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206, 709/207, 709/231, 709/240, 709/245, 379/88.22, 379/100.06, 379/93.24, 379/93.01, 340/825.51
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages

Abstract

A message notification system and methodology including an on-the-fly message parser which parses data in an incoming message as the message is received and produces on-the-fly parsed information and an on-the-fly message notification generator, producing a message notification in response to the on-the-fly parsed information, at least partially while the on-the-fly message parser parses the data in the incoming message.

Claims

1. A message notification system comprising:

an on-the-fly message parser which parses data in an incoming electronic mail message as the message is received and produces on-the-fly parsed information, the data being parsed during a message transfer session initiated by an electronic mail message sender coupled to the message notification system; and

an on-the-fly message notification generator operative to produce a message notification in response to the on-the-fly parsed information at least partially during the message transfer session and while the on-the-fly message parser parses the data in the incoming electronic mail message.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising a connection manager including a socket queue for coordinating operation of the on-the-fly message parser and the on-the-fly message notification generator.

3. The system of claim 1 further comprising a filter manager cooperating with the on-the-fly message parser and with the on-the-fly message notification generator to determine whether a notification message should be generated, based on the parsed information.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the on-the-fly message parser comprises a MIME parser.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein the MIME parser is operative to accumulate MIME encoded data until it contains at least a minimum amount of relevant information and then to decode the accumulated MIME encoded data on-the-fly.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the message transfer session is a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) session.

7. A message notification method, comprising:

on-the-fly parsing of data in an incoming electronic mail message as the electronic mail message is received to produce on-the-fly parsed information, the data being parsed during a message transfer session initiated by an electronic mail message sender coupled to a message notification system in which the message notification method is performed; and

on-the-fly message notification generating, producing a message notification in response to the on-the-fly parsed information at least partially during the message transfer session while the on-the-fly parsing of the data in the incoming electronic mail message is performed.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising coordinating the on-the-fly message parsing and the on-the-fly message notification generating.

9. The method of claim 7 further comprising employing filtering with the on-the-fly message parsing and the on-the-fly message notification generating to determine whether a notification message should be generated, based on the parsed information.

10. The method of claim 7 wherein the on-the-fly message parsing comprises MIME parsing.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the MIME parsing includes accumulating MIME encoded data until at least a minimum amount of relevant information is accumulated and then decoding the accumulated MIME encoded data on-the-fly.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the message transfer session is a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) session.