System and method for formatting an electronic message
First Claim
1. A method for managing communications of electronic messages between a first terminal device and a second terminal device, wherein the first terminal device has a first message presentation format and the second terminal device has a second message presentation format, the method comprising:
- receiving an electronic message from the first terminal device, said electronic message in the first message presentation format;
modifying a presentation format of the electronic message from the first message presentation format to a modified message presentation format; and
sending the electronic message in the modified message presentation format to the second terminal device,wherein the modified message presentation format is other than the first message presentation format; and
wherein said modified message presentation format is other than the second message presentation format.
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Abstract
A client/server based system provides an integrated messages system for a user having access to accounts on a number of different terminal communication devices, including at least one wireless terminal device. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes an agent that formats messages according to the formatting requirements of a receiving terminal device. The agent is connected to a wireless communications server and is adapted to receive and distribute messages, such as e-mail, from and to a multiplicity of senders and recipients, such as terminal devices interconnected over a network. Messages received from a terminal device and intended for a user may be forwarded to the user by the agent via a wireless communications server and wireless terminal device. The system enables the user to receive the incoming message and to reply to such a message or to generate an original message. Upon receiving a reply or original message, the agent, based upon certain information received from the user or upon a profile, processes the reply or original message received from the wireless communications server and forwards such message to one or more recipients in the form of a standard communications application whereby the recipient is presented with a message that appears to have come from a typical terminal device rather than from a wireless device.
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23 Claims
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1. A method for managing communications of electronic messages between a first terminal device and a second terminal device, wherein the first terminal device has a first message presentation format and the second terminal device has a second message presentation format, the method comprising:
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receiving an electronic message from the first terminal device, said electronic message in the first message presentation format; modifying a presentation format of the electronic message from the first message presentation format to a modified message presentation format; and sending the electronic message in the modified message presentation format to the second terminal device, wherein the modified message presentation format is other than the first message presentation format; and wherein said modified message presentation format is other than the second message presentation format. - View Dependent Claims (2, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23)
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3. An integrated messaging system comprising:
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a first terminal device that transmits and receives electronic messages in a first message presentation format; a second terminal device that transmits and receives electronic messages in a second message presentation format; a server system, coupling said first terminal device with said second terminal device, that receives an electronic message from said first terminal device, that modifies a presentation format of the electronic message from the first message presentation format to a modified message presentation format, and that sends the electronic message in the modified message presentation format to said second terminal device, wherein said modified message presentation format is other than said second message presentation format. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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7. An integrated messaging system comprising:
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a first terminal device that transmits and receives electronic messages in a first message presentation format; a second terminal device that transmits and receives electronic messages in a second message presentation format; a server system, coupling said first terminal device with said second terminal device, that receives an electronic message from said first terminal device, that modifies a presentation format of the electronic message from the first message presentation format to a modified message presentation format, and that sends the electronic message in the modified message presentation format to said second terminal device, wherein said modified message presentation format corresponds to a type of terminal device other than said first terminal device and said second terminal device.
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15. An integrated messaging system comprising:
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a first terminal device that transmits and receives electronic messages in a first message presentation format; a second terminal device that transmits and receives electronic messages in a second message presentation format; a server system, coupling said first terminal device with said second terminal device, that receives an electronic message from said first terminal device, that modifies a presentation format of the electronic message from the first message presentation format to a modified message presentation format, and that sends the electronic message in the modified message presentation format to said second terminal device, wherein the modified presentation format of the electronic message received by said second terminal device is the same as a presentation format of an electronic message sent by said second terminal device and received by said first terminal device. - View Dependent Claims (16)
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20. A method for managing communications of electronic messages between a first terminal device and a second terminal device, wherein the first terminal device has a first message presentation format and the second terminal device has a second message presentation format, the method comprising:
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receiving an electronic message from the first terminal device, said electronic message in the first message presentation format; modifying a presentation format of the electronic message from the first message presentation format to a modified message presentation format; and sending the electronic message in the modified message presentation format to the second terminal device, wherein the modified message presentation format is other than the first message presentation format, wherein said modified message presentation format corresponds to a type of terminal device other than said first terminal device or said second terminal device.
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