Integrated mobile messaging system and method

Abstract

A hand held device, much like a cell phone of PDA, contains both a data server and client server along with the voice messaging of a cell phone. The server communicates through a TCP/IP stack with a local computing system via IR, short distance wireless, a serial bus or Ethernet. The data client communicates with a remote server via a voice network or wireless to the Internet also via a TCP/IP stack and wide area network. Spare network bandwidth may be used for transferring information. The information may emails that are received and stored for later review for ultimately transferring to a local computer. Status may include knowing available memory and sizes of messages. Messages that are too large may be noted for later retrieval. On-board memory includes RAM, ROM, and removable modules that may be physically run at a local computing system.

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