US 7,689,721 B2Granted

System and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device

AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited

InventorsGary P. Mousseau, Tabitha K. Ferguson, Barry Linkert, Raymond P. Vander Veen, William D. Castell, Mihal Lazaridis

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Abstract

A scheme for message folder synchronization. In one embodiment, a method may comprise: automatically detecting arrival of a message at a messaging server for a user; storing the message in a first folder of a first folder system associated with the user at the messaging server; processing at least a portion of an instance of the message for transmission to the user's mobile data communication device over a wireless network; receiving a status signal from the mobile data communication device indicating that the message has been moved from a first folder at the mobile data communication device to a second folder of a second folder system associated with the user at the mobile data communication device; and responsive to the status signal, moving the message from the first folder of the first folder system at the messaging server to a second folder thereat corresponding to the second folder of the second folder system.

Claims23

Dependent claims

A method for synchronizing data storage between a host system and a mobile data device that is associated with a computer connected over a network to the host system, wherein the host system comprises a first folder hierarchy of messages and data stored thereon and the mobile data device comprises a second folder hierarchy of messages and data stored thereon, the method comprising:

retrieving the first folder hierarchy from the host system;
tagging and modifying a first folder list from the retrieved first folder hierarchy;
sending the tagged and modified first folder list to the mobile data device;
retrieving the second folder hierarchy from the mobile data device;
tagging and modifying a second folder list from the retrieved second folder hierarchy;
comparing messages and folders within the first and second folder lists and identifying which messages have different folder locations within the first and second folder lists;
identifying messages from the first folder list that have been moved on the mobile data device and tagging the identified messages for movement on the host system;
identifying messages from the second folder list that have been moved on the host system and tagging the identified messages for movement on the mobile data device;
moving any messages that have been moved on the mobile data device to a corresponding folder location on the host system;
and
sending a command to the mobile data device comprising the identified messages from the second list tagged for movement thereon.

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A system for synchronizing data storage between a host system and a mobile data device that is associated with a computer connected over a network to the host system, wherein the host system comprises a first folder hierarchy of messages and data stored thereon and the mobile data device comprises a second folder hierarchy of messages and data stored thereon, the system comprising:

means for retrieving the first folder hierarchy from the host system;
means for tagging and modifying a first folder list from the retrieved first folder hierarchy;
means for sending the tagged and modified first folder list to the mobile data device;
means for retrieving the second folder hierarchy from the mobile data device;
means for tagging and modifying a second folder list from the retrieved second folder hierarchy;
means for comparing messages and folders within the first and second folder lists and identifying which messages have different folder locations within the first and second folder lists;
means for identifying messages from the first folder list that have been moved on the mobile data device and tagging the identified messages for movement on the host system;
means for identifying messages from the second folder list that have been moved on the host system and tagging the identified messages for movement on the mobile data device;
means for moving any messages that have been moved on the mobile data device to a corresponding folder location on the host system;
and
means for sending a command to the mobile data device comprising the identified messages from the second list tagged for movement thereon.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/926,312Filed 29 Oct 2007 · continuation
Priority: 29 May 1998
Published: US 2008/0109521 A18 May 2008
Granted: 30 Mar 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification2 codes

G06Q 10/107
Office automation; Time management: computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial

Family

Application09/087,623Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 29 May 1998
US 6,219,694 B1Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 17 Apr 2001
Application10/240,960Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Jan 2003
US 2008/0109521 A1Pre-grant publication · published 8 May 2008
US 7,386,588 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 10 Jun 2008
Application10/240,960Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2003/0187938 A1Published application
US 7,689,721 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.