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Unified message delivery between portable electronic devices

  • US 9,451,425 B2
  • Filed: 09/02/2014
  • Issued: 09/20/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A first device comprising:

  • a first transceiver configured for communicating through a first local communications link to a second device, wherein the first local communications link is at least one of a Bluetooth connection and a peer-to-peer WiFi connection;

    a second transceiver configured for communicating through a network and a communications link to a push server, wherein the communications link is at least one of a cellular network connection and a WiFi network connection; and

    a processor configured to;

    determine whether the first local communications link is available for each data packet designated for transmission to the second device, wherein the determination is prior to transmitting a first one or more messages,transmit the first one or more messages through the first local communications link using the first transceiver when the first local communications link is available, andtransmit a first copy of the first one or more messages through the network to the push server through the communications link using the second transceiver when the first local communications link is unavailable, andreceive an acknowledgement message when the first one or more messages are received by the second device.

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