US 8,553,601 B2 · Communications system providing adaptive polling based upon positive and negative polling events and related methods

Abstract

A communications system may include at least one data storage device for storing messages for respective users, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices each associated with a respective user for accessing the messages stored on the at least one data storage device. Moreover, the communications system may further include an adaptive polling engine for polling the at least one data storage device for stored messages and providing the polled messages to mobile wireless communications devices of respective users. The adaptive polling engine may advantageously learn respective user usage patterns for each mobile wireless communications device, and change a respective rate of polling for each mobile wireless communications device based thereon.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for providing e-mail messages to a mobile wireless communications device, comprising:

polling an e-mail data storage device for e-mail messages stored at the e-mail data storage device;
changing a rate of polling based upon a negative polling event comprising the mobile wireless communications device being outside of a wireless coverage area;
and
providing the polled e-mail messages to the mobile wireless communications device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/343,400Filed 4 Jan 2012 · continuation

Priority

7 Aug 2003

Published

US 2012/0102129 A126 Apr 2012

Granted

8 Oct 2013

Term ends

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Classification7 codes

H04W 74/06
Scheduled access: using polling
H04L 51/214
Monitoring or handling of messages: using selective forwarding
H04W 12/06
Security arrangements; Authentication; Protecting privacy or anonymity: authentication
H04L 51/58
User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail: message…

Family

Application60/493,118Us provisional application · filed 7 Aug 2003

Application10/781,195Parent of this continuation · filed 18 Feb 2004

Application11/831,497Parent of this continuation · filed 31 Jul 2007

US 7,280,537 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Oct 2007

US 2012/0102129 A1Pre-grant publication · published 26 Apr 2012

US 8,094,592 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2005/0030913 A1Published application

US 2007/0268849 A1Published application

US 8,553,601 B2This patent

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Communications system providing adaptive polling based upon positive and negative polling events and related methods

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Communications system providing adaptive polling based upon positive and negative polling events and related methods

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Abstract

Claims20