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Email SMS notification system providing enhanced message retrieval features and related methods

  • US 7,363,026 B2
  • Filed: 06/23/2005
  • Issued: 04/22/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A communications system comprising:

  • at least one wireless communications device;

    at least one electronic mail (email) server for storing email messages for said at least one wireless communications device; and

    an email relay server for detecting a new email message on said at least one email server and, based thereon, sending a short message service (SMS) notification with a unique message identifier (ID) of the new email message and an original SMS identifier to said at least one wireless communications device;

    said at least one wireless communications device detecting the SMS notification and sending an email retrieval request to said email relay server, without user input, instructing said email relay server to retrieve the new email message based upon the unique message ID;

    said at least one wireless communications device also sending an instruction to said email relay server to thereafter send any subsequent SMS notification with a different SMS identifier rather than the original SMS identifier.

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