METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA TRANSFER AND NOTIFICATION MECHANISMS

• US 20090307370A1
• Filed: 08/18/2009
• Published: 12/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oath Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: BOERRIES, Marco, Wellhofer, Bernhard, Breuer, Matthias, Srinivasan, Venkatachary, Schulz, Torsten, Meyer, Markus
• Application Number:
  US12/543,231
• Publication Number:
  US 20090307370A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/232
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages

Abstract

In one aspect a device such as a mobile device includes logic operable to display an email message received from a remote location, the email message having associated data (e.g., an attachment) located remotely to the device (e.g., with a server or the like). The system further includes logic operable to receive a request for the associated data, and initiate an asynchronous fetch of the associated data, wherein the associated data is fetched in the background of the device. The system may further include logic operable to initiate a notification after receiving the request for the data that the associated data will be fetched, and/or initiate a notification that the associated data has been fetched. The associated data may include an attachment, media object, or other data associated with the email message.

Claims

1. A device comprising a memory, a display, a communication interface, and a processor, the device comprising logic operable to:

receive a data segment from a remote location, the data segment associated with additional data located remotely;

receive a request for the additional data;

initiate a fetch of the additional data, wherein the additional data is fetched in the background of the device; and

initiate a notification after initiating the fetch of the additional data that the additional data has been received.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the fetch comprises an asynchronous fetch of the additional data.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the data segment comprises a portion of an email message and the additional data includes additional data of the email message.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein the data segment includes an ASCII email message, and the additional data includes an HTML or RTF email message.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the data segment comprises at least a portion of an email message and the additional data includes a media object associated with the email message.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the data segment comprises at least a portion of an email message and the additional data includes an attachment associated with the email message.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the data segment comprises a first portion of a media object and the additional data comprises the first portion of the media object and the additional data.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the data segment comprises a first portion of a media object and the additional data comprises a data set including the data segment.

9. The device of claim 1, further comprising logic operable to initiate a notification after receiving the request for the data that the additional data will be fetched.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein the notification comprises displaying the additional data.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein the device comprises a mobile device.

12. A system for coordinating the transfer of data to a device, the system comprising logic operable to:

parse a data set into at least a first data segment and second data segment;

initiate a transfer of the first data segment to a remote device;

receive a request for the second data segment from the remote device; and

initiate a transfer of the second data segment.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the first data segment comprises an email message, and the second data segment comprises an attachment.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the first data segment comprises an email message, and the second data segment comprises a media object.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the first data segment comprises a portion of an email message and the second data segment includes additional data of the email message.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein the first data segment includes an ASCII email message, and the additional data segment includes an HTML document.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the first data segment includes an ASCII email message, and the additional data segment includes an RTF email message.

18. The system of claim 12, further comprising logic operable to initiate a notification after initiating the transfer of the second data segment that the second data segment has been transferred to the remote device.

19. The system of claim 12, wherein the second data segment is transferred to the remote device.

20. The system of claim 12, wherein the second data segment is transferred to a storage location and further comprising logic operable to alert the remote device of the location of the second data segment for retrieval.

21. The system of claim 12, further including transcoding the first data segment before initiating the transfer of the first data segment to the remote device.

22. The system of claim 12, further including transcoding the second data segment before initiating the transfer of the second data segment.