System and method for full wireless synchronization of a data processing apparatus with a messaging system

• US 8,321,511 B1
• Filed: 01/21/2003
• Issued: 11/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Friend, John, Belshe, Michael, Collins, Roger, Bennett, Mike
• Primary Examiner(s): Bruckart, Benjamin R
• Application Number:
  US10/348,281
• Time in Patent Office: 3,598 Days
• Field of Search: 709/201, 709/212, 709/219, 709/246, 709/248, 709/203, 709/204, 709/206, 455/3, 455/2, 455/42.1
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1895 for short real-time information, e.g. alarms, notifications, alerts, updates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/56 Packet switching systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/24 Multipath
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/04 Protocols for data compression, e.g. ROHC
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/12 Setup of transport tunnels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support

Abstract

A system is disclosed in which a data processing device is completely synchronized with a messaging service. One embodiment of the system comprises a wireless data processing device; a messaging service to maintain messages and other information on behalf of a user; and synchronization logic for maintaining synchronization of the messages and other information between the wireless device and the messaging service.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a wireless device to initiate first synchronization by automatically transmitting a first message update as a modification occurs to a first electronic mail (e-mail) message at the wireless device, and to initiate second synchronization by automatically transmitting a second message update as a modification occurs to a second e-mail message at the wireless device;

a wireless service provider network communicatively coupled to the wireless device;

a data center, communicatively coupled to the wireless service provider, to combine the first and second message updates received from the wireless device to form a block e-mail transaction

a data network coupled to the data center;

a server, communicatively coupled to the data network, having an interface to receive the block e-mail transaction from the data center and to transmit message updates to the wireless device.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the server further comprises a cache to store the message updates prior to transmitting the message updates to the data center.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the data center transmits an acknowledge message to the server upon receiving the message updates.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the wireless device transmits an acknowledge message to the data center upon receiving a block e-mail transaction.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the wireless device initiates synchronization with the interface by automatically transmitting a third message update as a modification occurs to a third e-mail message.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein the wireless device comprises batch processing logic to combine message updates to form a block e-mail transaction.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the data center comprises a message switch that stores a block e-mail transaction received from the wireless device prior to transmitting the block e-mail transaction to the server.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the data center further comprises:

an outbound gateway coupled to the message switch and communicatively coupled to the server; and

a wireless gateway coupled to the message switch and communicatively coupled to the wireless device.

9. The system of claim 5 wherein each of the message updates include an identification code upon generation, the identification code indicating the sequence in which the e-mail messages were generated.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the wireless device comprises:

a cache to store the received message updates until the e-mail messages have been executed; and

in-order control logic to examine the identification code of the received message updates to determine if all of the data transactions have been received.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein upon receiving a series of message updates the wireless device executes the received message updates in order based upon the sequence of identification codes.

12. The system of claim 10 wherein upon receiving the series of message updates the wireless device delays the execution of a message update with a first identification code until one or more message updates with previous sequential identification codes have been received.

13. The system of claim 9 wherein the in-order control logic transmits a request to the data center to retransmit message updates that have not been received within a predetermined time period.

14. The system of claim 9 wherein the server comprises in-order control logic to examine the identification code of the received message updates to determine if all of the message updates have been received.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein upon receiving a series of message updates the messaging service application executes the received message updates in order based upon the sequence of identification codes.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein upon the server receiving the series of message updates the messaging service application delays the execution of a message updates with a first identification code until one or more message updates with previous sequential identification codes have been received.

17. The system of claim 14 wherein the in-order control logic transmits a request to the data center to retransmit message updates that have not been received within a predetermined time period.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein the server comprises:

a cache to store the received message updates until the message updates have been executed; and

in-order control logic to examine the identification code of the received message updates to determine if all of the e-mail messages have been received.

19. The system of claim 18 wherein upon the server receiving a series of message updates the messaging service application executes the received message updates in order based upon the sequence of identification codes.

20. The system of claim 19 wherein upon the server receiving the series of message updates the messaging service application delays the execution of a message updates with a first identification code until one or more message updates with previous sequential identification codes have been received.

21. The system of claim 18 wherein the in-order control logic transmits a request to the data center to retransmit message updates that have not been received within a predetermined time period.

22. The system of claim 1 wherein the server further comprises batch processing logic, Coupled to the messaging service application, to message updates to form a block e-mail transaction.

23. The system of claim 22 wherein the server further comprises a cache to store block transactions prior to transmitting the block e-mail transactions to the data center.

24. A system comprising:

a wireless device to initiate first synchronization with a messaging server by automatically transmitting a first message update as a modification occurs to a first electronic mail (e-mail) message at the wireless device, and to initiate second synchronization with the messaging server by automatically transmitting a second message update as a modification occurs to a second e-mail message at the wireless device;

a data center, communicatively coupled to the wireless device, to combine the first and second message updates received from the wireless device to form a block e-mail transaction and to transmit the block email transaction to the messaging server.

25. The system of claim 24 wherein the wireless device further comprises a cache to store data transactions prior to transmitting the e-mail messages to the data center.

26. The system of claim 24 wherein the messaging server initiates synchronization with the wireless device by automatically transmitting a third message update as a modification occurs to a third e-mail message.

27. The system of claim 24 wherein the data center comprises a message switch to store the first and second message updates received from the wireless device prior to transmitting the block e-mail transaction to the server.

28. The system of claim 24 wherein the data center further comprises:

an outbound gateway coupled to a message switch and the server; and

a wireless gateway coupled to the message switch and the wireless device.

29. The system of claim 24 wherein the messaging server comprises batch processing logic to combine two or more e-mail messages to form a block e-mail transaction.

30. The system of claim 29 wherein the messaging server further comprises a cache to store block transactions prior to transmitting the block e-mail transactions to the data center.