System and method of handling messages for forwarding

• US 8,745,140 B2
• Filed: 10/14/2005
• Issued: 06/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Hardy, Michael Thomas, Glennie, Robin Roy
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Viet
• Assistant Examiner(s): BELCHER, HERMAN A
• Application Number:
  US11/249,507
• Publication Number:
  US 20070088787A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,154 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206, 709/219, 455/466, 719/313
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/184 Messaging devices, e.g. message centre

Abstract

A message received, over a first message handling service, on a mobile wireless communication device may be forwarded using a second message handling service. When a user wishes to forward a received message object associated with a first message handling service, the user may be provided, by a new verb object, with the option to forward the received message object as a new message object associated with a second message handling service. In the event that the user exercises the option, the new verb object selects a previously existing verb object for generating the new message object. The new verb object then passes the received message object to the previously existing verb object.

Claims

1. A method of forwarding a received message, the method comprising, at a wireless communication device:

receiving, over a first message handling service, a message of a first message type, the receiving resulting in a received message;

instantiating, from an object-oriented donor message class representing the first message type and implementing a predetermined object-oriented interface, a donor message object based on the received message;

presenting a user interface at the wireless communication device, the user interface presenting multiple user-selectable options associated with different message handling services for forwarding the received message;

upon user selection of one of the options, the selected option being associated with a second message handling service that transports messages of a second message type, requesting information elements from the donor message object via the predetermined object-oriented interface;

receiving the information elements;

populating a recipient message object with the information elements, the recipient message object being an instantiation of an object-oriented recipient message class representing the second message type; and

performing the forwarding of the received message using the recipient message object,

wherein the first message handling service is a Short Messaging Service (SMS), the received message is an SMS message and the second message handling service is an e-mail service,

and wherein the information elements comprise a Subject element and further comprising generating the Subject element from a portion of a payload of the SMS message.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the portion of the payload of the SMS message is a plurality of characters up to a cut-off point within the payload of the SMS message.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the cut-off point is one of a first period in the payload, a first exclamation mark in the payload, a first question mark in the payload, or a first comma in the payload.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein the cut-off point is a last white space character within a first N characters of the payload, where N is a predetermined integer.

2. A wireless communication device comprising a processor in communication with memory storing instructions which, upon execution by the processor, adapt the device to:

receive, over a first message handling service, a message of a first message type, the receiving resulting in a received message;

instantiating, from an object-oriented donor message class representing the first message type and implementing a predetermined object-oriented interface, a donor message object based on the received message;

present a user interface at the wireless communication device, the user interface presenting multiple user-selectable options associated with different message handling services for forwarding the received message;

upon user selection of one of the options, the selected option being associated with a second message handling service that transports messages of a second message type, request information elements from the donor message object via the predetermined object-oriented interface;

receive the information elements;

populate a recipient message object with the information elements, the recipient message object being an instantiation of an object-oriented recipient message class representing the second message type; and

forward the received message using the recipient message object,

wherein the first message handling service is a Short Messaging Service (SMS), the received message is an SMS message and the second message handling service is an e-mail service,

and wherein the information elements comprise a Subject element and further comprising generating the Subject element from a portion of a payload of the SMS message.

7. The device of claim 2 wherein the portion of the payload is a plurality of characters up to a cut-off point within the payload.

8. The device of claim 7 wherein the cut-off point is one of a first period in the payload, a first exclamation mark in the payload, a first question mark in the payload, or a first comma in the payload.

9. The device of claim 8 wherein the cut-off point is a last white space character within a first N characters of the payload, where N is a predetermined integer.

3. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing computer-executable instructions that, when performed by a processor in a wireless communication device, cause the device to:

receive, over a first message handling service, a message of a first message type, the receiving resulting in a received message;

instantiate, from an object-oriented donor message class representing the first message type and implementing a predetermined object-oriented interface, a donor message object based on the received message;

present a user interface at the wireless communication device, the user interface presenting multiple user-selectable options associated with different message handling services for forwarding the received message;

upon user selection of one of the options, the selected option being associated with a second message handling service that transports messages of a second message type, request information elements from the donor message object via the predetermined object-oriented interface;

receive the information elements;

populate a recipient message object with the information elements, the recipient message object being an instantiation of an object-oriented recipient message class representing the second message type; and

perform the forwarding of the received message using the recipient message object,

wherein the first message handling service is a Short Messaging Service (SMS), the received message is an SMS message and the second message handling service is an e-mail service,

and wherein the information elements comprise a Subject element and further comprising generating the Subject element from a portion of a payload of the SMS message.

10. A method of forwarding a received message, the method comprising, at a wireless communication device:

receiving, over a first message handling service, a message of a first message type, the message type having multiple fields, the receiving resulting in a received message;

instantiating, from an object-oriented donor message class representing the first message type and implementing a predetermined object-oriented interface, a donor message object based on the received message;

presenting a user interface at the wireless communication device, the user interface presenting multiple user-selectable options associated with different message handling services for forwarding the received message;

upon user selection of one of the options, the selected option being associated with a second message handling service that transports messages of a second message type, requesting an information element from the donor message object via the predetermined object-oriented interface, the information element representing a field of the second message type, the field of the second message type being different from any one of the fields of the first message type;

receiving the information element;

populating a recipient message object using the information element, the recipient message object being an instantiation of an object-oriented recipient message class representing the second message type, the object-oriented recipient message class defining an organization of the field of the second message type; and

performing the forwarding of the received message using the recipient message object.

13. The method of claim 10 wherein the first message handling service is a Short Messaging Service (SMS), wherein the received message is an SMS message, wherein the second message handling service is an e-mail service, wherein the second message type is e-mail, wherein the information element represents an e-mail Subject field and further comprising generating the Subject element from a portion of a payload of the SMS message, the portion comprising a plurality of characters up to a cut-off point within the payload of the SMS message.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the cut-off point is one of a first period in the payload, a first exclamation mark in the payload, a first question mark in the payload, or a first comma in the payload.

15. The method of claim 13 wherein the cut-off point is a last white space character within a first N characters of the payload, where N is a predetermined integer.

11. A wireless communication device comprising a processor in communication with memory storing instructions which, upon execution by the processor, adapt the device to forward a message by:

receiving the message over a first message handling service, the message being of a first message type, the message type having multiple fields, the receiving resulting in a received message;

instantiating, from an object-oriented donor message class representing the first message type and implementing a predetermined object-oriented interface, a donor message object based on the received message;

presenting a user interface at the wireless communication device, the user interface presenting multiple user-selectable options associated with different message handling services for forwarding the received message;

upon user selection of one of the options, the selected option being associated with a second message handling service that transports messages of a second message type, requesting an information element from the donor message object via the predetermined object-oriented interface, the information element representing a field of the second message type, the field of the second message type being different from any one of the fields of the first message type;

receiving the information element;

populating a recipient message object using the information element, the recipient message object being an instantiation of an object-oriented recipient message class representing the second message type, the object-oriented recipient message class defining an organization of the field of the second message type; and

performing the forwarding of the received message using the recipient message object.

16. The computing device of claim 11 wherein the first message handling service is a Short Messaging Service (SMS), wherein the received message is an SMS message, wherein the second message handling service is an e-mail service, wherein the second message type is e-mail, wherein the information element represents an e-mail Subject field and wherein the computer-executable instructions cause the computing device to generate the Subject element from a portion of a payload of the SMS message, the portion comprising a plurality of characters up to a cut-off point within the payload of the SMS message.

17. The computing device of claim 16 wherein the cut-off point is one of a first period in the payload, a first exclamation mark in the payload, a first question mark in the payload, or a first comma in the payload.

18. The computing device of claim 16 wherein the cut-off point is a last white space character within a first N characters of the payload, where N is a predetermined integer.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing computer-executable instructions that, when performed by a processor in a wireless communication device, cause the device to forward a message by:

receiving the message over a first message handling service, the message being of a first message type, the message type having multiple fields, the receiving resulting in a received message;

instantiating, from an object-oriented donor message class representing the first message type and implementing a predetermined object-oriented interface, a donor message object based on the received message;

presenting a user interface at the wireless communication device, the user interface presenting multiple user-selectable options associated with different message handling services for forwarding the received message;

upon user selection of one of the options, the selected option being associated with a second message handling service that transports messages of a second message type, requesting an information element from the donor message object via the predetermined object-oriented interface, the information element representing a field of the second message type, the field of the second message type being different from any one of the fields of the first message type;

receiving the information element;

populating a recipient message object using the information element, the recipient message object being an instantiation of an object-oriented recipient message class representing the second message type, the object-oriented recipient message class defining an organization of the field of the second message type; and

performing the forwarding of the received message using the recipient message object.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 wherein the first message handling service is a Short Messaging Service (SMS), wherein the received message is an SMS message, wherein the second message handling service is an e-mail service, wherein the second message type is e-mail, wherein the information element represents an e-mail Subject field and wherein the computer-executable instructions cause the computing device to generate the Subject element from a portion of a payload of the SMS message.