Method and system for providing remote access to previously transmitted enterprise messages

An apparatus for managing message events associated with a plurality of message feeds provided to a user in a communication network, the apparatus comprising:

• means in the first communication network for collecting information regarding at least two message events associated with the message feeds;
• means for determining, based upon a predefined filter, whether to provide an alert associated with each message event;
• means for updating a list of messages for the user based on the collected information;
• means for preparing an alert based on the updated list of messages, the alert including an indication of which of the plurality of message events is a most recent message event;
• means for pushing the alert, via a second communication network which is a shared network, to a wireless device associated with the user using a Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) push protocol without knowledge of topology of the second communication network;
• and
• means for archiving information associated with the updated list of message,
• whereby the alert is transmitted to the wireless device in the absence of a corresponding request from the wireless device, and whereby predetermined types of messages can be withheld in relative security in the first communication network.

An apparatus for providing notifications about messages in a first communication network including a first messaging server adapted to store messages from a first message feed for a plurality of users and a second messaging server adapted to store messages from a second message feed for the plurality of users, the first message feed and second message feed being associated with different types of messages, the apparatus comprising:

• a notification server in the first communication network adapted to be coupled to both of the first and second messaging servers, the notification server collecting information about at least two messages stored for certain of the plurality of users by the first message feed and the second message feed, and applying a predefined filter to the message, and pushing alerts associated with messages not removed from processing by the filter via a second communication network which is a shared network, without knowledge of topology of the second communication network, using a Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) push protocol based on the collected information to wireless devices associated with the certain users;
• an archive coupled to the notification server for storing message headers based on the collected information, the pushed alerts including a link for accessing the archive and an indication of the most recent one of the plurality of messages;
• wherein the communication system further includes a PBX coupled to a plurality of office phones associated with the certain users, one of the first and second message feeds being voice mail associated with the office phones,
• whereby the alert is transmitted to the wireless device in the absence of a corresponding request from the wireless device, and whereby predetermined types of messages can be withheld in relative security in the first communication network.