Delivering messages in a communication system
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1. A message delivery system comprising a message server including one or more computer processors configured to:
- receive a message from a sending computing system and subsequently generate a message ID in response to receiving the message, the message ID being generated to identify the received message, the message being intended for a receiving computing system;
cause the message ID to be pushed to a message ID database that is separate from the message server, the message ID database implemented by one or more decentralized resources of a peer-to-peer database;
receive, prior to transmitting the message to the receiving computing system, a request from the receiving computing system that includes at least some information contained in the message ID, the at least some information contained in the message ID obtained from a message ID response returned by the message ID database responsive to a message ID query submitted by the receiving computing system; and
responsive to receiving the request, transmit the message to the receiving computing system.
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Abstract
Message delivery systems and methods for delivering messages to a computing system are described. The system uses a message ID structure and a message ID database to allow a user to check whether he or she is recipient of a new message without having to contact the message server that holds messages to be delivered. The resource load related to users checking for messages is therefore left to a separate computing system, allowing the message server to dedicate its resources to the receiving and delivering of messages.
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1. A message delivery system comprising a message server including one or more computer processors configured to:
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receive a message from a sending computing system and subsequently generate a message ID in response to receiving the message, the message ID being generated to identify the received message, the message being intended for a receiving computing system; cause the message ID to be pushed to a message ID database that is separate from the message server, the message ID database implemented by one or more decentralized resources of a peer-to-peer database; receive, prior to transmitting the message to the receiving computing system, a request from the receiving computing system that includes at least some information contained in the message ID, the at least some information contained in the message ID obtained from a message ID response returned by the message ID database responsive to a message ID query submitted by the receiving computing system; and responsive to receiving the request, transmit the message to the receiving computing system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A receiving computing system for receiving a message from a message server including one or more computer processors, the receiving computing system being operable to:
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send a message ID query to a message ID database rather than to the message server; receive a message ID response from the message ID database, the message ID response comprising information about message IDs stored in the message ID database; and upon receiving the message ID response, determine, without contacting the message server, whether the message ID response indicates that a message is ready for retrieval from the message server;
in the affirmative then to;request, by sending a message request to the message server, that the message server transmits the message to the receiving computing system; and receive the message transmitted from the message server. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for handling one or more messages from a sending computing system, the method comprising:
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receiving, at a message server, one or more messages from the sending computing system, the one or more messages being intended for a receiving computing system; responsive to said receiving, generating, using the message server, one or more message IDs identifying the received one or more messages; causing, with the message server, at least one of the one or more message IDs to be pushed to a message ID database effective to enable the receiving computing system to ascertain, without contacting the message server, at least some information contained in the one or more message IDs, the message ID database being separate from the message server; receiving, prior to transmitting the one or more messages to the receiving computing system, a request from the receiving computing system that includes information contained in the one or more message IDs, the information contained in the one or more message IDs obtained from one or more message ID responses returned by the message ID database responsive to one or more message ID queries submitted by the receiving computing system; and responsive to receiving the request, transmit the one or more messages, associated with the information, to the receiving computing system. - View Dependent Claims (10)
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11. A method for receiving a message at a receiving computing system from a message server, the method comprising:
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sending, by the receiving computing system, a message ID query to a message ID database rather than to a message server; receiving, with the receiving computing system, a message ID response from the message ID database, the message ID response comprising information about message IDs stored in the message ID database; determining, without contacting the message server, whether the message ID response indicates that a message is ready for retrieval from the message server; responsive to the message being ready for retrieval, sending a message request to the message server to request the message; and receiving, from the message server, the message. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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15. A computer program product comprising:
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computer readable code stored on a computer readable hardware storage medium configured to be executed by at least one computer processor to facilitate handling of one or more messages from a sending computer system having one or more computer processors by; responding to receiving the one or more messages transmitted from the sending computing system, by generating from a message server one or more message IDs identifying the received one or more messages, the one or more messages being intended for a receiving computing system; causing, from the message server, at least one of the one or more message IDs to be pushed to a message ID database that is separate from the message server, the message ID database and message server configured to provide distinct services by being mutually resource-independent with respect to network and processing resources; receiving, prior to transmitting the one or more messages to the receiving computing system, a request from the receiving computing system that includes at least some information contained in at least one of said one or more message IDs, the at least some information contained in the at least one of the one or more message IDs obtained from one or more message ID responses returned by the message ID database responsive to one or more message ID queries submitted by the receiving computing system; and responsive to receiving the request, transmitting the corresponding one or more messages to the receiving computing system. - View Dependent Claims (16, 20)
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17. A computer program product comprising:
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computer readable code stored on a computer readable hardware storage medium configured to be executed by at least one computer processor to facilitate handling of one or more messages from a receiving computing system having one or more computer processors by; sending, by the receiving computing system, a message ID query to a message ID database rather than to a message server, the message ID database being configured to store message IDs and to transmit a message ID response to the receiving computing system in response to receiving the message ID query, the message ID response comprising information about message IDs stored in the message ID database; receiving, at the receiving computing system, the message ID response from the message ID database, the message ID response comprising information about message IDs stored in the message ID database; determining, at the receiving computing system, and without contacting the message server, whether the message ID response indicates that a message is ready for retrieval from the message server, the message server being configured to transmit the message to the receiving computing system in response to receiving a message request from the receiving computing system; and
if a message is ready for retrieval from the message server, then;sending, by the receiving computing system, a message request to the message server to request the message; and receiving, by the receiving computing system, the message from the message server. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19)
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