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US 9,794,762 B2Granted
System, methods, software, and devices employing messaging
AssigneeNokia Technologies Oy
InventorsBalazs Bakos, Jukka K. Nurminen, Attila Kiss, Zoltan Ivanfi, Gyula Kun-Szabo, Douglas Deeds
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Abstract
A mobile device is shown in the role of a centralized message transfer agent wherein it manages all messaging for a user for most if not all the time so as to provide a unified messaging approach across all messaging platforms. Other platforms are shown using the mobile device in this unified way. Related systems, methods, integrated circuits, and software are also shown.
Claims49
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code,
- the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following,
- upon receiving an object of communication via a network, convert the object of communication of a first application type into a converted object of communication of a second application type, wherein the first and second application types are different, and one of the application types is associated with an email application, a short message service application, a multimedia messaging service application, a calling application, a voice messaging application, an instant messaging application, or an internet chat application,
- execute one or more functions of an internal simple mail transfer protocol server, an internal post office protocol server, an internal internet message access server, or a combination therefore, and
- initiate a transmission of a response to the object of communication or to the converted object of communication including the converted object of communication via the network to one or more external communication terminal devices,
- wherein the response is of the second application type, and
- wherein the apparatus is within a mobile communication terminal device.
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A method, comprising:
- upon receiving an object of communication via a network, converting, by an apparatus, the object of communication of a first application type into a converted object of communication of a second application type, wherein the first and second application types are different, and one of the application types is associated with an email application, a short message service application, a multimedia messaging service application, a calling application, a voice messaging application, an instant messaging application, or an internet chat application,
- executing, by the apparatus, one or more functions of an internal simple mail transfer protocol server, an internal post office protocol server, an internal internet message access server, or a combination therefore, and
- initiating, by the apparatus, a transmission of a response to the object of communication or to the converted object of communication including the converted object of communication via the network to one or more external communication terminal devices,
- wherein the response is of the second application type, and
- wherein the apparatus is within a mobile communication terminal device.
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A mobile communication terminal device, comprising:
- a central message transfer agent configured:
- upon receiving an object of communication via a network, to convert the object of communication of a first application type into a converted object of communication of a second application type, wherein the first and second application types are different, and one of the application types is associated with an email application, a short message service application, a multimedia messaging service application, a calling application, a voice messaging application, an instant messaging application, or an internet chat application,
- to execute one or more functions of an internal simple mail transfer protocol server, an internal post office protocol server, an internal internet message access server, or a combination therefore, and
- to initiate a transmission of a response to the object of communication or to the converted object of communication including the converted object of communication via the network to one or more external communication terminal devices,
- wherein the response is of the second application type.
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A non-transitory computer readable storage medium carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause an apparatus to at least perform the following steps:
- upon receiving an object of communication via a network, converting the object of communication of a first application type into a converted object of communication of a second application type, wherein the first and second application types are different, and one of the application types is associated with an email application, a short message service application, a multimedia messaging service application, a calling application, a voice messaging application, an instant messaging application, or an internet chat application,
- executing one or more functions of an internal simple mail transfer protocol server, an internal post office protocol server, an internal internet message access server, or a combination therefore, and
- initiating a transmission of a response to the object of communication or to the converted object of communication including the converted object of communication via the network to one or more external communication terminal devices,
- wherein the response is of the second application type, and
- wherein the apparatus is within a mobile communication terminal device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.