Appeal No. 2003-2074 Application No. 09/095,325 host computer, and not from the mobile client. Further, a “continuously forwarding” feature provides for messages received at the host computer to be “pushed” to the mobile client, so that the mobile client does not need to take a proactive step in order to have the messages received at the host computer forwarded to the mobile client. Representative independent claim 33 is reproduced as follows: 33. A method of forwarding messages between a host system and a mobile client, comprising the steps of: establising a session based on loaded parameters at the host system; maintaining the session at the host system and querying the host system; receiving messages directed to a first address at the host system from a plurality of message senders; in response to a query, continuously forwarding the messsages from the host system to the mobile client; receiving the messages at the mobile client; generating reply messages at the mobile client to be sent to the plurality of message senders and transmitting the reply messages to the host system; receiving the reply messages at the host system and configuring the reply messages such that it will appear to the plurality of message senders that the reply messages originated at the first address associated with the host system; and -2-Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007