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Backup and restoring instant messages

  • US 8,965,982 B1
  • Filed: 11/29/2010
  • Issued: 02/24/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A wireless mobile communication device comprising:

  • a wireless mobile communication system configured to communicate wirelessly over a network communication system;

    an internal storage system configured to;

    selectively store, delete, and restore instant messages, the instant messages including short message service (SMS) messages and multimedia messaging service (MMS) messages; and

    generate a user interface configured to;

    allow a user of the wireless mobile communication device to provide an input related to selection of one or more stored instant messages for backing up within an external computer storage device including an email server based on at least a name of a sender of the one or more instant messages, wherein the sender of the one or more instant messages is different than the wireless mobile communication device;

    allow the user to delete the selected one or more stored instant messages from the internal storage system; and

    allow the user to restore one or more stored instant messages that have been backed up within the external computer storage device prior to being deleted from the internal storage system; and

    a processing system configured to;

    receive the input related to selection of the one or more instant messages based on the user input;

    select the one or more instant messages to be backed up within the external computer storage device, based on the user input;

    generate, for each of the selected instant messages, an email message wherein the selected instant message is included as part of the email message, the email message being delivered to and stored within the email server;

    obtain each of the selected one or more instant messages, that were backed up within the external computer storage device and deleted from the internal storage system from the respective delivered email message; and

    selectively restore each obtained instant message as an instant message within the internal storage system of the wireless mobile communication device according to predefined criteria relating to the delivered instant messages that are selectively restored.

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