Appeal No. 2003-1598
Application 09/213,851
The disclosed invention pertains to an e-mail notification
and messaging system. A local client device receives both the
e-mail notifications and the e-mail messages. A particular
feature of the invention is that e-mail messages are retrieved
over a different communications link than the e-mail
notifications, and the e-mail notifications are received over a
low bandwidth communications link.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. An e-mail notification and messaging system for
providing e-mail messages and e-mail notifications from an e-mail
service system to local client devices of a plurality of users,
the system comprising:
an e-mail service system configured to receive e-mail
messages for a plurality of users and configured to provide
e-mail notifications and e-mail messages to the local client
devices of the plurality of users;
a given local client device from among the local client
devices that is configured to receive e-mail notifications from
the e-mail service system and that is configured to retrieve
e-mail messages from the e-mail service system;
a first communications link over which the local client
device retrieves e-mail messages from the e-mail service system;
and
a second communications link separate from the first
communications link over which the e-mail service system provides
e-mail notifications to the local client device, wherein the
second communications link is a low bandwidth communications
link.
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