Method and system for controlling multiple remote mailboxes simultaneously connected to a plurality of PDP connections of a GPRS system

• US 7,395,313 B2
• Filed: 07/02/2001
• Issued: 07/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Ketola, Pekka
• Primary Examiner(s): LIN, WEN TAI
• Application Number:
  US09/897,354
• Publication Number:
  US 20020002591A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,556 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206, 379 8813- 8822, 455/566
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication

Abstract

The invention relates to a system for controlling at least a first and a second remote mailbox located in at least one e-mail server, in a terminal. Between the terminal and the e-mail server maintaining the first remote mailbox, and between the terminal and the e-mail server maintaining the second remote mailbox, at least partly simultaneous connection is arranged to be established, wherein the remote mailboxes are arranged to be controlled by means of the terminal substantially simultaneously by means of the connections.

Claims

1. A system for controlling at least two remote mailboxes, located in at least two e-mail servers comprising:

at least a first PDP connection of a GPRS system between a wireless terminal and an e-mail server maintaining a first remote mailbox, and,

a second PDP connection of the GPRS system between the wireless terminal and another e-mail server maintaining a second remote mailbox,

an e-mail program stored in a memory to be used for controlling said remote mailboxes, which e-mail program is provided with a user interface, and said e-mail program is provided with the capability to control said remote mailboxes simultaneously within the same user interface,

said wireless terminal comprising a control unit for controlling said remote mailboxes simultaneously with the first and second PDP connections, wherein the first and second PDP connections are simultaneously maintained, and comprise different PDP connections.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein each remote mailbox is provided with a unique identification.

3. The system according to claim 2, in which a notification of an e-mail message that has arrived in one of said remote mailboxes is arranged to be produced for a user, wherein said notification is arranged to be provided with a unique identification of that remote mailbox to which the e-mail message has arrived.

4. The system according to claim 2, in which the user of the e-mail program is provided with the capability to formulate and send e-mail messages, wherein the e-mail program is adapted to select the e-mail address of the user, and to attach the selected e-mail address of the user to the e-mail message to be transmitted.

5. The system according to claim 2, in which the user of the e-mail program is provided with the capability to reply to the e-mail messages that have arrived, wherein the system attaches by default the address of the remote mailbox in which the e-mail message to be answered has arrived to a reply message as an address of the sender of the reply message.

6. A method for controlling at least two remote mailboxes located in at least two e-mail servers comprising:

establishing a first PDP connection of a GPRS system between an e-mail server maintaining a first remote mailbox and a wireless terminal;

establishing a second PDP connection of the GPRS system between another e-mail server maintaining a second remote mailbox and the wireless terminal;

wherein the first PDP connection and the second PDP connection are not the same connection;

maintaining the first PDP connection and the second PDP connection simultaneously; and

using an e-mail program stored in a memory for controlling said remote mailboxes, which e-mail program is provided with a user interface,

controlling said remote mailboxes simultaneously within the same user interface of said e-mail program,

controlling the first remote mailbox and the second remote mailbox with the wireless terminal simultaneously with the first and second PDP connections.

7. The method according to claim 6, comprising using an e-mail program for controlling said the first and second remote mailboxes, in which e-mail program it is possible to control several remote mailboxes substantially simultaneously, and in which each remote mailbox has its own unique identification such as an icon or a name.

8. The method according to claim 7, in which, when a new e-mail message arrives in any of said remote mailboxes, the method comprises forming a notification of the e-mail message that has arrived for a user, and providing said notification with a unique identification of that remote mailbox to which the e-mail message has arrived.

9. The method according to claim 7, in which in the e-mail program the user can formulate and send e-mail messages, wherein the method comprises selecting in the e-mail program the e-mail address of a user and attaching the selected e-mail address of the user to the e-mail message to be transmitted.

10. The method according to claim 7, comprising replying in the e-mail program by a user to the e-mail messages that have arrived, and attaching by default the address of the remote mailbox to which the e-mail message to be answered has arrived, to a reply message as an address of the sender of the reply message.

11. A wireless terminal comprising:

a control unit for controlling at least a first and a second remote mailbox located in at least two e-mail servers,

a communication module for establishing a first PDP connection of a GPRS system between the wireless terminal and an e-mail server maintaining the first remote mailbox, and for establishing a second PDP connection of the GPRS system, the second PDP connection being a different connection from the first PDP connection, between the wireless terminal and an e-mail server maintaining the second remote mailbox simultaneously with the first PDP connection,

and an e-mail program stored in a memory to be used for controlling said remote mailboxes, which e-mail program is provided with a user interface, and said e-mail program is provided with the capability to control said remote mailboxes simultaneously within the same user interface, wherein

said control unit is configured for controlling said at least two remote mailboxes simultaneously by the first and second PDP connections.

12. The wireless terminal according to claim 11, wherein each remote mailbox is provided with a unique identification, such as an icon or a name.

13. The wireless terminal according to claim 12, comprising means for producing a notification of an e-mail message that has arrived in one of said remote mailboxes for a user, and means for providing said notification with a unique identification of that remote mailbox to which the e-mail message has arrived.

14. The wireless terminal according to claim 12, comprising means for formulating e-mail messages and means for transmitting e-mail messages, wherein said e-mail program is adapted to select the e-mail address of a user, and to attach the selected e-mail address of the user to the e-mail message to be transmitted.

15. The wireless terminal according to claim 12, comprising means for answering the e-mail messages that have arrived, and means for attaching by default the address of the remote mailbox to which the e-mail message to be answered has arrived, to a reply message.

16. A GPRS system comprising means for establishing PDP connections, means for controlling by a wireless terminal at least a first and a second remote mailbox located in at least two e-mail servers, comprising means for arranging at least a first PDP connection of the GPRS system between the wireless terminal and an e-mail server maintaining said first remote mailbox and a second PDP connection of the GPRS system between the wireless terminal and another e-mail server maintaining said second remote mailbox, the second PDP connection comprising a connection different from the first PDP connection, and said wireless terminal comprising an e-mail program stored in a memory to be used for controlling said remote mailboxes, which e-mail program is provided with a user interface, and said e-mail program is provided with the capability to control said remote mailboxes simultaneously within the same user interface, and a control unit for controlling said remote mailboxes simultaneously by means of said PDP connections.

17. A wireless communication device comprising means for controlling at least a first and a second remote mailbox located in at least two e-mail servers in a system comprising means for arranging at least a first PDP connection of a GPRS system between the wireless communication device and a first e-mail server maintaining said first remote mailbox and a second PDP connection of the GPRS system between the wireless communication device and a second e-mail server maintaining said second remote mailbox, wherein the second PDP connection is not the same as the first PDP connection, said wireless communication device further comprising an e-mail program to be used for controlling said remote mailboxes, which e-mail program is provided with a user interface, and said e-mail program is provided with the capability to control said remote mailboxes simultaneously within the same user interface, and said means for controlling at least a first and a second remote mailbox being adapted to control said at least first and second remote mailboxes simultaneously by means of said first and second PDP connections.

18. A wireless terminal comprising:

means for controlling at least a first and a second remote mailbox located in at least two e-mail servers,

means for establishing a first PDP connection of a GPRS system between the wireless terminal and an email server maintaining the first remote mailbox,

means for establishing a second PDP connection of the GPRS system, the second PDP connection being a different connection from the first PDP connection, between the wireless terminal and an e-mail server maintaining the second remote mailbox simultaneously with the first PDP connection,

an e-mail program stored in a memory to be used for controlling said remote mailboxes which e-mail program is provided with a user interface, and said e-mail program is provided with the capability to control said remote mailboxes simultaneously within the same user interface, and

means for controlling said at least two remote mailboxes simultaneously by the first and second PDP connections.