Bypassing uploading of data from a wireless device using outbound attachment caching

• US 8,086,719 B2
• Filed: 05/12/2011
• Issued: 12/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Ocampo, Nestor
• Primary Examiner(s): Jacobs, Lashonda T
• Application Number:
  US13/106,298
• Publication Number:
  US 20110213853A1
• Time in Patent Office: 229 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/224, 709/203, 709/206, 709/217, 709/218, 709/219
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication

Abstract

In embodiments of bypassing uploading of data from a wireless device using outbound attachment caching, synchronization logic is implemented to determine whether an attachment of an electronic message to be sent from a wireless device is stored in a first memory of the wireless device or a second memory of the wireless device. The first memory can be configured to automatically replicate data stored in the first memory to a wireless data service. The electronic message can then be initiated for communication to the wireless data service without the attachment responsive to determining that the attachment is stored in the first memory. Alternately, the electronic message can be initiated for communication to the wireless data service without the attachment responsive to determining that the attachment is stored in the second memory and that the attachment was previously communicated to the wireless data service.

Claims

1. A wireless device, comprising:

a memory device and a processor to implement synchronization logic configured to;

determine whether an attachment of an electronic message to be sent from the wireless device is stored in a first memory of the wireless device or a second memory of the wireless device, the first memory configured to automatically replicate data stored in the first memory to a wireless data service; and

initiate communication of the electronic message to the wireless data service without the attachment responsive to determining that the attachment is stored in the first memory.

2. A wireless device as recited in claim 1, wherein the synchronization logic is further configured to initiate communication of the electronic message to the wireless data service without the attachment responsive to determining that the attachment is stored in the second memory and that the attachment was previously communicated to the wireless data service.

3. A wireless device as recited in claim 1, wherein the synchronization logic is further configured to initiate communication of the electronic message to the wireless data service with the attachment responsive to determining that the attachment is stored in the second memory and that the attachment was not previously communicated to the wireless data service.

4. A wireless device as recited in claim 1, wherein the synchronization logic is further configured to initiate communication of the electronic message to the wireless data service with the attachment responsive to determining that the attachment is stored in the second memory, that the attachment was previously communicated to the wireless data service, and that the attachment is likely to have been deleted from the wireless data service based on a cache management policy of the wireless data service.

5. A wireless device as recited in claim 1, wherein the first memory is built into the wireless device and the second memory is an expandable memory that is removable from the wireless device.

6. A wireless device as recited in claim 1, wherein the memory device and the processor are further configured to implement an expandable memory synchronization logic configured to communicate a deletion notification to the wireless data service when attachments stored in the second memory that were previously communicated to the wireless data service are deleted from the second memory.

7. A wireless device as recited in claim 1, wherein electronic message is directed to a social networking site and the attachment comprises a file to be posted on the social networking site.

8. A wireless device as recited in claim 1, wherein the electronic message comprises an email message.

9. A method comprising:

receiving, at a wireless device, an electronic message that is intended to include an attachment;

determining, by the wireless device, that the attachment is stored at a server; and

sending, from the wireless device, the electronic message with the attachment retrieved from the server.

10. A method as recited in claim 9, wherein determining that the attachment is stored at the server further comprises comparing attachment identification information corresponding to the electronic message to identification information of attachments stored at the server to determine that the attachment that is intended to be included with the electronic message is the same as one of the attachments stored at the server.

11. A method as recited in claim 9, wherein determining that the attachment is stored at the server further comprises comparing attachment identification information corresponding to the electronic message to a list of attachments previously received at the server to determine that the attachment that is intended to be included with the electronic message is the same as one of the attachments stored at the server.

12. A method as recited in claim 9, wherein prior to receiving the electronic message, the method further comprising:

receiving, at the server, an additional electronic message that includes an additional attachment; and

storing the additional attachment at the server;

wherein the determining that the attachment is stored at the server comprises determining that the attachment is the same as the additional attachment stored at the server.

13. A method as recited in claim 12, wherein the additional electronic message that includes the additional attachment is received from an expandable memory of the wireless device.

14. A method as recited in claim 13, further comprising deleting the additional attachment from the server if the additional attachment is unused for a predetermined period of time.

15. A method as recited in claim 13, further comprising deleting the additional attachment from the server responsive to receiving a notification that the additional attachment is deleted from the expandable memory of the wireless device.

16. A method as recited in claim 9, wherein prior to receiving the electronic message, the method further comprising:

receiving the attachment from a memory of the wireless device via synchronization logic that synchronizes data stored in the memory of the wireless device with data stored at the server; and

storing the attachment at the server.

17. A method, comprising:

determining, by a wireless device, whether an attachment of an electronic message to be sent from the wireless device is stored in a first memory of the wireless device or a second memory of the wireless device, the first memory configured to automatically replicate data stored in the first memory to a wireless data service; and

initiating communication, by the wireless device, of the electronic message to the wireless data service without the attachment responsive to determining that the attachment is stored in the second memory and that the attachment was previously communicated to the wireless data service.

18. A method as recited in claim 17, further comprising initiating communication of the electronic message to the wireless data service without the attachment responsive to determining that the attachment is stored in the first memory.

19. A method as recited in claim 17, further comprising initiating communication of the electronic message to the wireless data service with the attachment responsive to determining that the attachment is stored in the second memory and that the attachment was not previously communicated to the data service.

20. A method as recited in claim 17, further comprising initiating communication of the electronic message to the wireless data service with the attachment responsive to determining that the attachment is stored in the second memory, that the attachment was previously communicated to the wireless data service, and that the attachment is likely to have been deleted from the wireless data service based on a cache management policy of the wireless data service.