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US 8,788,605 B2Granted
System and method for handling electronic messages
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsNeil Patrick Adams, Ian Robertson, David Victor MacFarlane, Herbert Anthony Little
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Abstract
Systems and methods for handling messages on a mobile device. A system and method could be configured to receive at a mobile device a message that is associated with a message expiry indicator. If a message expiry indicator is determined to be associated with the received message, then the received message is removed from the mobile device.
Claims16
A server comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- receive a message;
- re-envelope the message as a secure message;
- determine whether a message expiry attribute is associated with the message;
- automatically set a message expiry attribute for the message based on re-enveloping the message as a secure message when there is not a message expiry attribute already associated with the message;
- not setting a message expiry attribute on re-enveloping the message if there is a message expiry attribute already associated with the message;
- and
- forward the message.
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A mobile device comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- generate a message;
- and
- subsequent to creating the message, request an input at a user interface to select whether a message expiry attribute should be associated with the message;
- receive the input;
- if the message expiry attribute is to be associated with the message, automatically associate a predetermined type of message expiry attribute based upon contents of the message;
- and
- send the message with the message expiry attribute.
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A mobile device comprising a processor configured to:
- generate a message comprising a message expiry attribute;
- present, at a user interface, an option of setting the message expiry attribute;
- and
- determine, by the processor, that the option of setting the message expiry attribute is not elected at the user interface;
- and
- automatically set the message expiry attribute based upon the determination and based upon contents of the message.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.