Intelligent messaging service

• US 8,078,203 B2
• Filed: 10/11/2007
• Issued: 12/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola Mobility, Inc. (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kamdar, Kashyap, Fondjo, Bertrand K., Raval, Tushar
• Primary Examiner(s): MILLER, BRANDON J
• Application Number:
  US11/870,430
• Publication Number:
  US 20090098859A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,524 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455517-518, 455418-420, 455/566, 4554121-4122, 4554141-4143, 4554561-4566
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication

Abstract

A method, information processing system, and wireless communication system, that provide wireless messaging services to wireless devices. A wireless messaging request is received from a user of at least one wireless device (104). The wireless messaging request is associated with at least one recipient device. The wireless messaging request is analyzed in response to receiving the request. The wireless messaging request is determined to include at least one of recipient filtering criteria (206) and delivery criteria (208) in response to the analyzing. A wireless message associated with the wireless messaging request is transmitted to the at least one wireless device based on the at least one of recipient filtering criteria (206) and delivery criteria (208).

Claims

1. A method, with an information processing system, for providing wireless messaging services to wireless devices, the method comprising:

receiving a wireless messaging request from a user, wireless the wireless messaging request is associated with at least one recipient device of a plurality of recipient devices;

analyzing, in response to the receiving, the wireless messaging request;

determining, in response to the analyzing, that the wireless messaging request comprises recipient delivery criteria;

transmitting a wireless message associated with the wireless messaging request to the at least one recipient device based on the recipient delivery criteria;

wherein the delivery criteria indicates when to deliver the message to the at least one recipient device;

receiving a request to cancel the wireless messaging request from the user;

determining whether the wireless message associated with the wireless messaging request is still pending delivery; and

when the wireless message is still pending delivery, canceling the wireless messaging request;

when the wireless message has already been sent to the at least one recipient device, sending a notification to the at least one recipient device that a cancellation request associated with the wireless message has been received.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting further comprises:

transmitting the wireless message to each recipient device of the plurality of recipient devices when a presence status associated with each recipient device matches a presence status defined by the delivery criteria.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting further comprises:

transmitting the wireless message to each recipient device of the plurality of recipient devices when a location of each recipient device substantially matches a location defined by the delivery criteria.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting a list comprising recipient devices that the wireless message has been sent to.

5. An information processing system for providing wireless messaging services to wireless devices, the information processing system comprising:

a memory;

a processor communicatively coupled to the memory;

a wireless message manager communicatively coupled to the memory and the processor, wherein the wireless message manager is adapted to;

receive a wireless messaging request form a user, wherein the wireless messaging request is associated with at least one recipient device of a plurality of recipient devices;

analyze, in response to the receiving, the wireless messaging request;

determine, in response to the analyzing, that the wireless messaging request comprises recipient delivery criteria;

transmit a wireless message associated with the wireless messaging request to the at least one recipient device based on the recipient delivery criteria;

wherein the delivery criteria indicates when to deliver the message to the at least one recipient device;

receive a request to cancel the wireless messaging request from the user;

determine whether the wireless message associated with the wireless messaging request is still pending delivery; and

when the wireless message is still pending delivery, cancel the wireless messaging request;

when the wireless message has already been sent to the at least one recipient device, send a notification to the at least one recipient device that a cancellation request associated with the wireless message has been received.

6. The information processing system of claim 5, wherein the transmitting further comprises:

transmitting the wireless message to each recipient device of the plurality of recipient devices when a presence status associated with each recipient device matches a presence status defined by the delivery criteria.

7. The information processing system of claim 5, wherein the transmitting further comprises:

transmitting the wireless message to each recipient device of the plurality of recipient devices when a location of each recipient device substantially matches a location defined by the delivery criteria.