System and method for bundling information

• US 8,024,416 B2
• Filed: 09/04/2007
• Issued: 09/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Ferguson, Tabitha, Linkert, Barry, Vander Veen, Raymond, Castell, David, Mousseau, Gary P., Lazaridis, Mihal
• Primary Examiner(s): LAZARO, DAVID R
• Application Number:
  US11/849,785
• Publication Number:
  US 20080077707A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,477 Days
• Field of Search: 709201-207, 709217-219, 709/227, 709/228
• US Class Current: 709/207
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1787 Details of non-transparently synchronising file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/275 Synchronous replication
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold

Abstract

A system and method of pushing user-selected data items from a host system to a user'"'"'s mobile data communication device upon detecting the occurrence of one or more user-defined event triggers is provided. The user may then move (or file) the data items to a particular folder within a folder hierarchy stored in the mobile data communication device, or may execute some other system operation on the data item. Software operating at the mobile device and the host system then synchronizes the folder hierarchy of the mobile device with a folder hierarchy of the host system, and any actions executed on the data items at the mobile device are then automatically replicated on the same data items stored at the host system, thus eliminating the need for the user to manually replicate actions at the host system that have been executed at the mobile data communication device.

Claims

1. A method of redirecting data items from a messaging server to a user'"'"'s mobile communication device via a wireless network, the method comprising:

receiving, at a redirector component disposed in an intranet and coupled to the messaging server, a plurality of commands from the mobile communication device via the wireless network;

responsive to a first command of the plurality of commands, enabling a preferred list mode and adding at least one sender to a preferred list of senders;

responsive to a second command of the plurality of commands, setting a redirection flag configured for the user to enable redirection of data items to the user'"'"'s mobile communication device from the messaging server until the redirection flag is reset to indicate cessation of redirection of the data items;

detecting arrival of at least one data item received at the messaging server and determining that the at least one data item is from a particular sender of the preferred list of senders, the at least one data item being addressed to the user'"'"'s mail address associated with the messaging server and operable to be stored thereat;

responsive to the determination, causing to bundle at least a portion of the at least one data item for transmission to the user'"'"'s mobile communication device via the wireless network; and

moving the at least one data item into a particular folder responsive to a command from the mobile communication device.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising delaying transmission of the at least one data item to the mobile communication device.

3. The method as recited in claim 2, further comprising storing the at least one data item that has been delayed.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising encrypting the at least a portion of the at least one data item prior to transmission via the wireless network.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising compressing the at least a portion of the at least one data item prior to transmission via the wireless network.

6. A system for redirecting data items from a messaging server to a user'"'"'s mobile communication device via a wireless network, the system comprising:

means for processing a plurality of commands received, at a redirector component disposed in an intranet and coupled to the messaging server, from the mobile communication device via the wireless network;

means, responsive to a first command of the plurality of commands, for enabling a preferred list mode and adding at least one sender to a preferred list of senders;

means, responsive to a second command of the plurality of commands, for setting a redirection flag configured for the user to enable redirection of data items to the user'"'"'s mobile communication device from the messaging server until the redirection flag is reset to indicate cessation of redirection of the data items;

means for detecting arrival of at least one data item received at the messaging server and for determining that the at least one data item is from a particular sender of the preferred list of senders, the at least one data item being addressed to the user'"'"'s mail address associated with the messaging server and operable to be stored thereat;

means, responsive to the determination, for causing to bundle at least a portion of the at least one data item for transmission to the user'"'"'s mobile communication device via the wireless network; and

means, responsive to a command from the mobile communication device, for moving the at least one data item into a particular folder.

7. The system as recited in claim 6, further comprising means for causing to delay transmission of the at least one data item to the mobile communication device.

8. The system as recited in claim 7, further comprising means for storing the at least one data item that has been delayed.

9. The system as recited in claim 6, further comprising means for encrypting the at least a portion of the at least one data item prior to transmission via the wireless network.

10. The system as recited in claim 6, further comprising means for compressing the at least a portion of the at least one data item prior to transmission via the wireless network.

11. The system as recited in claim 6, further comprising means for applying a criterion relating to how long a plurality of bundled data items are to be delayed before transmission to the user'"'"'s mobile communication device.

12. A non-transitory computer-accessible medium having instructions which when executed by a processing entity of a computer operate to redirect data items from a messaging server to a user'"'"'s mobile communication device via a wireless network, comprising:

a code portion for processing a plurality of commands received, at a redirector component disposed in an intranet and coupled to the messaging server, from the mobile communication device via the wireless network;

a code portion, operable responsive to a first command of the plurality of commands, for enabling a preferred list mode and for adding at least one sender to a preferred list of senders;

a code portion, operable responsive to a second command of the plurality of commands, for configuring a redirection flag configured for the user to enable redirection of data items to the user'"'"'s mobile communication device from the messaging server until the redirection flag is reset to indicate cessation of redirection of the data items;

a code portion for detecting arrival of at least one data item received at the messaging server and for determining that the at least one data item is from a particular sender of the preferred list of senders, the at least one data item being addressed to the user'"'"'s mail address associated with the messaging server and operable to be stored thereat;

a code portion, operable responsive to the determination, for causing to bundle at least a portion of the at least one data item for transmission to the user'"'"'s mobile communication device via the wireless network; and

a code portion, operable responsive to a command from the mobile communication device, for moving the at least one data item into a particular folder.

13. The non-transitory computer-accessible medium as recited in claim 12, further comprising a code portion for causing to delay transmission of the at least one data item to the mobile communication device.

14. The non-transitory computer-accessible medium as recited in claim 13, further comprising a code portion for storing the at least one data item that has been delayed.

15. The non-transitory computer-accessible medium as recited in claim 12, further comprising a code portion for encrypting the at least a portion of the at least one data item prior to the transmission via the wireless network.

16. The non-transitory computer-accessible medium as recited in claim 12, further comprising a code portion for compressing the at least a portion of the at least one data item prior to the transmission via the wireless network.