TeamOn Systems, Inc. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130007177 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING PLURALITY OF PRIORITISED EMAIL DOMAIN NAMES - The system and method are for provisioning an electronic mail (email) account for allowing access to an electronic mailbox to retrieve email. A mobile office platform includes a configuration module and a communications module which are operative for accessing an electronic mailbox. The communications module is to receive email address parameters of the user and transmit a domain name system (DNS) query to the Internet for returning mail exchange (MX) records, including email domain names, corresponding to the email address parameters of the user. The configuration module is to process returned MX records to determine candidate configuration parameters for accessing the email account of the user to retrieve user email. The configuration module is to determine candidate configuration parameters based upon expanding a plurality of prioritized email domain names of the returned MX records. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007176 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM USING HIERARCHICAL QUEUE STRUCTURE FOR EMAIL MESSAGE DELIVERY AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include at least one destination server for hosting email message boxes, and communications devices for generating email messages each associated with a respective message box. A delivery server may have a plurality of queues and a controller. The controller may store the email messages in a first queue, and attempt to send the stored email messages to the destination server at a first sending rate. The controller may also move email messages stored in the first queue to a second queue based upon a delivery failure. Email messages may be sent from the second queue at a second sending rate less than the first sending rate. The controller may also move email messages from the second queue to the first queue having a common characteristic with a successfully delivered email message. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007156 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM INCLUDING PROTOCOL INTERFACE DEVICE PROVIDING ENHANCED OPERATING PROTOCOL SELECTION FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include data storage devices each using at least one of a plurality of different operating protocols. Further, at least one of the data storage devices may operate using multiple operating protocols. The system may also include mobile wireless communications devices for accessing the at least one data storage device, and each may use at least one of the plurality of operating protocols. Moreover, the system may further include a protocol interface device. The protocol interface device may include a front-end proxy module for communicating with the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices using respective operating protocols. The protocol interface may also include a protocol engine module for communicating with the data storage devices using respective operating protocols. The protocol engine module may also select a desired operating protocol for communicating with the at least one data storage device from the multiple operating protocols. | 01-03-2013 |
20120198011 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONFIGURATION DATA SUCH AS FOR CONFIGURING ELECTRONIC MAIL ACCESS - A system, method and computer-readable medium provides configuration data, such as for electronic mail access. A configuration module retrieves the configuration data from a source of configuration data, such as a user system. The configuration in one aspect could be for accessing different electronic mailboxes of a user. Data object are generated. Each data object is submitted as a distributed object module to a web service. The web service in one aspect of the invention could be for a pass-through access for configuring electronic mailboxes. | 08-02-2012 |
20120179747 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING ENHANCED CLIENT-SERVER COMMUNICATIONS AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include an application server and at least one communications device for processing requests from one another. The communications device may process requests using an HTTP client application, for example. Furthermore, the system may also include an HTTP server for interfacing the HTTP client application with the application server. The HTTP server and the HTTP client application may format requests to be communicated therebetween via the Internet in an HTTP format, and each may provide additional state information with the HTTP formatted requests recognizable by the other for authenticating the application server and the HTTP client application to one another. Furthermore, the HTTP client application may request a first universal resource locator (URL) from the HTTP server for accepting work requests from the application server, and a second URL different from the first URL for responding to work requests from the application server. | 07-12-2012 |
20120131659 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM INCLUDING PROTOCOL INTERFACE DEVICE FOR USE WITH MULTIPLE OPERATING PROTOCOLS AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include a plurality of data storage devices each using at least one of a plurality of operating protocols. The system may also include a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices for accessing the data storage devices, and each may use at least one of the plurality of operating protocols. Furthermore, the system may also include a protocol interface device including a front-end proxy module for communicating with the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices using respective operating protocols, and a protocol engine module for communicating with the plurality of data storage devices using respective operating protocols. More particularly, the front-end proxy module and the protocol engine module may communicate using a common interface protocol able to represent a desired number of protocol-supported elements for a desired operating protocol. | 05-24-2012 |
20120117631 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISIONING AN EMAIL ACCOUNT USING MAIL EXCHANGE AND ADDRESS RECORDS - A system for provisioning an electronic mail (email) account of a user for allowing access to an electronic mailbox from a remote device to retrieve email includes a communications module that receives email address parameters entered by the user and transmits a domain name system (DNS) query to the Internet for returning mail exchange (MX) and address (A) records corresponding to the entered email address parameters of the user. A configuration module processes any returned MX and A records to determine whether the email address parameters entered by the user are valid before attempting to provision the email account of the user. | 05-10-2012 |
20120110105 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RETRIEVING ELECTRONIC MAIL - A communications system and method includes a mobile device having a mail user agent. A mobile office platform as a server includes a mail agent that is operative with the mail user agent for accessing one or more electronic mailboxes of the mail user agent using at least one protocol specific connector. The mobile office platform is operative for providing only the n-most recent mail headers of electronic messages to the mail user agent. | 05-03-2012 |
20120102129 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING ADAPTIVE POLLING BASED UPON POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE POLLING EVENTS AND RELATED METHODS - 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. | 04-26-2012 |
20120059895 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISIONING AN EMAIL ACCOUNT USING MAIL EXCHANGE RECORDS - A system provisions an electronic mail (email) account of a user for allowing access to an electronic mailbox from a remote device to retrieve email. A communications module receives email address parameters of the user and transmits a domain name system (DNS) query to the Internet for returning mail exchange (MX) records corresponding to the email address parameters of the user. A configuration module processes any returned MX records as a starting point for determining configuration parameters for accessing the email account of the user to retrieve user email. | 03-08-2012 |
20120030296 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING REDUCED ACCESS LATENCY AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include data storage devices for storing data files, and mobile wireless communications devices (MWCDs) generating access requests for the data files. The data storage devices and MWCDs may each use one or more different operating protocols. Each data file may be associated with a respective MWCD and have a unique identification (UID) associated therewith. The system may also include a protocol interface device including a protocol converter module for communicating with the MWCDs using respective operating protocols thereof, and a protocol engine module for communicating with the data storage devices using respective operating protocols thereof. The protocol engine module may also poll the data storage devices for UIDs of data files stored thereon, and cooperate with the protocol converter module to provide UIDs for respective data files to the MWCDs upon receiving access requests therefrom. | 02-02-2012 |
20110321140 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY LEARNING MAILBOX CONFIGURATION CONVENTIONS - A system and method automatically learns mailbox configuration conventions. The validator module determines a valid set of configuration parameters used for accessing an electronic mailbox of a user within a mail domain after receiving configuration information from the user that is limited in the configuration parameters required for accessing the electronic mailbox. A learner module accepts from the validator module a set of configuration parameters determined to be valid and generates configuration conventions for a mail domain. A database store is the generated configuration conventions. The validator and learner modules can be operative as part of a web server. | 12-29-2011 |
20110302281 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONFIGURATION DATA SUCH AS FOR CONFIGURING ELECTRONIC MAIL ACCESS - A system, method and computer-readable medium provides configuration data, such as for electronic mail access. A configuration module retrieves the configuration data from a source of configuration data, such as a user system. The configuration in one aspect could be for accessing different electronic mailboxes of a user. Data object are generated. Each data object is submitted as a distributed object module to a web service. The web service in one aspect of the invention could be for a pass-through access for configuring electronic mailboxes. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302259 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM INCLUDING PROTOCOL INTERFACE DEVICE PROVIDING ENHANCED OPERATING PROTOCOL SELECTION FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include data storage devices each using at least one of a plurality of different operating protocols. Further, at least one of the data storage devices may operate using multiple operating protocols. The system may also include mobile wireless communications devices for accessing the at least one data storage device, and each may use at least one of the plurality of operating protocols. Moreover, the system may further include a protocol interface device. The protocol interface device may include a front-end proxy module for communicating with the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices using respective operating protocols. The protocol interface may also include a protocol engine module for communicating with the data storage devices using respective operating protocols. The protocol engine module may also select a desired operating protocol for communicating with the at least one data storage device from the multiple operating protocols. | 12-08-2011 |
20100332556 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING A SERVER AND PREVENTING ACCESS BLOCKING AND MINIMIZING NETWORK TRAFFIC - A communications system and method includes a database for storing problem magnitudes relating to failed attempts at accessing servers using connection engines. An intelligent routing engine could be a server operative with the database, which queries the database and delays any further attempts at accessing the server using the first connection engine if the problem magnitude exceeds a predetermined threshold. Reattempts can be made after a sufficient delay. A plurality of connection engines can be used by a client for accessing a server. The connection engines are preferably distributed among a plurality of subnets and/or IP addresses and a different connection engine can be chosen based on a desired route with minimum problems. | 12-30-2010 |
20100325230 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF POLLING ELECTRONIC MAILBOXES - A communications system includes a polling agent that can be part of a mobile office platform for polling an electronic mailbox to retrieve unique identifiers (UID's) of electronic messages. A database stores the UID's resulting from the polling operation. The polling agent is operative for polling the electronic mailbox and retrieving only those UID's that are newer than the UID's from a previous polling to determine that new messages are available. | 12-23-2010 |
20100293259 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING MULTI-LAYERED EXTENSIBLE PROTOCOL INTERFACE AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include data storage devices each using at least one of a plurality of different operating protocols, and mobile wireless communications devices (MWCDs) for accessing the data storage devices and each using at least one of the different operating protocols. The system may further include a protocol interface device, which may include a protocol engine module for communicating with the data storage devices using respective operating protocols. The protocol interface device may further include a front-end proxy module coupled to the protocol engine. The front-end proxy module may include a respective proxy module for communicating with the MWCDs using each different operating protocol. The front-end proxy module may also include one or more common core service modules coupled to the proxy modules and communicating therewith at a first layer, and communicating with the protocol engine module at a second layer lower than the first layer. | 11-18-2010 |
20100179999 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING MESSAGE AGGREGATION FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include a plurality of source message servers for storing messages for delivery to a user, a target message server having a target message box associated therewith, and an aggregation server for periodically aggregating the messages from the source message servers to the target message box for retrieval by the user. The target message server may provide a delivery failure message to the aggregation server based upon a failure to deliver a message to the target message box. As such, the aggregation server may increase a period of sending messages to the target message box based upon a delivery failure message therefrom, and thereafter decrease the period of sending messages to the target message box based upon a successful delivery of a message thereto. | 07-15-2010 |
20100162380 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING SHARED CLIENT-SERVER COMMUNICATIONS INTERFACE AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include a plurality of communications devices connected together in a network and having a plurality of user accounts associated therewith. At least one of the communications devices may process requests using an HTTP client application associated therewith. The system may also include an application server for accessing the user accounts via the HTTP client application, and an HTTP server for interfacing the HTTP client application with the application server. The HTTP server and the HTTP client application may format requests to be communicated therebetween in an HTTP format, and each may provide additional state information with the HTTP formatted requests recognizable by the other for authentication purposes. Furthermore, the HTTP client application may request a first universal resource locator (URL) from the HTTP server for accepting work requests from the application server, and a second URL different from the first for responding to work requests. | 06-24-2010 |
20100153493 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING EXTENSIBLE PROTOCOL TRANSLATION AND CONFIGURATION FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include data storage devices and mobile wireless communications devices for accessing the data storage devices, each using one or more different operating protocols. The system may further include a protocol interface device, which may include a protocol engine module for communicating with the data storage devices using respective operating protocols, and a front-end proxy module coupled to the protocol engine module. The front-end proxy module may include a respective proxy module for communicating with the mobile wireless communications devices using each different operating protocol, and at least one common core service module coupled to the proxy modules. The protocol interface device may also include a configuration file module coupled to the front-end proxy module for storing a plurality of different sets of configuration files relating to different allocations of resources of the at least one common core service module. | 06-17-2010 |
20100061310 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING EXTENSIBLE PROTOCOL TRANSLATION FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include a plurality of data storage devices each using at least one of a plurality of different operating protocols, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices for accessing the plurality of data storage devices. Each mobile wireless communications device may also use at least one of the plurality of different operating protocols. The system may further include a protocol interface device. In particular, the protocol interface device may include a protocol engine module for communicating with the plurality of data storage devices using respective operating protocols, and a front-end proxy module coupled to the protocol engine. The front-end proxy module may include a respective proxy module for communicating with the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices using each different operating protocol, and at least one common core service module connected to the proxy modules. | 03-11-2010 |
20100005148 | EMAIL SMS NOTIFICATION SYSTEM PROVIDING ENHANCED CHARGE ACCOUNTING FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include at least one wireless communications device and at least one electronic mail (email) server for storing email messages for the at least one wireless communications device. An email relay server may detect a new email message on the at least one email server and, based thereon, send a short message service (SMS) notification with an original SMS identifier to the at least one wireless communications device. The at least one wireless communications device may detect the SMS notification and send an instruction to the email relay server to thereafter send any subsequent SMS notification with a different SMS identifier rather than the original SMS identifier. | 01-07-2010 |
20080313354 | Communications System Providing Shared Client-Server Communications Interface And Related Methods - A communications system may include a plurality of communications devices connected together in a network and having a plurality of user accounts associated therewith. At least one of the communications devices may process requests using an HTTP client application associated therewith. The system may also include an application server for accessing the user accounts via the HTTP client application, and an HTTP server for interfacing the HTTP client application with the application server. The HTTP server and the HTTP client application may format requests to be communicated therebetween in an HTTP format, and each may provide additional state information with the HTTP formatted requests recognizable by the other for authentication purposes. Furthermore, the HTTP client application may request a first universal resource locator (URL) from the HTTP server for accepting work requests from the application server, and a second URL different from the first for responding to work requests. | 12-18-2008 |
20080256204 | DIRECT ACCESS ELECTRONIC MAIL (EMAIL) DISTRIBUTION AND SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM WITH OUT-OF-COVERAGE NOTIFICATION - A communications system includes a network engine that communicates with a plurality of user subscribed mobile wireless communications devices and operative for determining when a mobile wireless communications device is out-of-coverage or turned off and unable to communicate with the network engine. A direct access server is operative with the network engine and polls electronic mailboxes of the users and retrieves electronic messages from the electronic mailboxes and pushes any electronic messages through the network engine to selected user subscribed mobile wireless communications devices. The direct access server suspends polling of those electronic mailboxes of a user when a mobile wireless communications device associated with a user has been determined to be out-of-coverage or turned off and unable to communicate so as to preserve polling resources within the direct access server. | 10-16-2008 |
20080256203 | DIRECT ACCESS ELECTRONIC MAIL (EMAIL) DISTRIBUTION AND SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM WITH IMAP-IDLE IMPLEMENTATION - The communications system includes a network engine that communicates with the plurality of a user subscribed mobile wireless communications devices via a communications network for sending and receiving emails. A direct access server is operative with the network engine for polling electronic mailboxes of users from an email source and retrieving electronic messages from the electronic mailboxes and pushing any electronic mailboxes to the network engine to selected users subscribed mobile wireless communications devices. The direct access server communicates with an email source using the internet message access protocol (IMAP) and IMAP-Idle supportable connections to accept real-time notifications such that when a connection limit is reached or exceeded to an email source, the direct access server disables IMAP-Idle connections to the email source. | 10-16-2008 |
20080256202 | DIRECT ACCESS ELECTRONIC MAIL (EMAIL) DISTRIBUTION AND SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM WITH EXTERNAL SMTP SERVER SUPPORT - A communications system includes a network engine that communicates with a plurality of user subscribed mobile wireless communications devices via a communications network for sending and receiving emails therefrom. A direct access server is operative with the network engine for polling electronic mailboxes of the user belonging to an email source hosted by an email provider and obtaining email from the electronic mailboxes and pushing any email through the network engine to selected user subscribed mobile wireless communications devices. It includes an internal SMTP server that is configured for outgoing email and operative for specifying an SMTP server for communication belonging to an email provider given a SMTP server and protocol combination for the email source of the email provider to which communication is desired such that the internal SMTP server of the direct access server is not used. | 10-16-2008 |
20080256198 | EMAIL SYSTEM INCLUDING AN EMAIL AGGREGATION SERVER PROVIDING DISTRIBUTED POLLING AND RELATED METHODS - An email system may include at least one email server having mailboxes for storing email messages therein, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices. The system may further include at least one email aggregation server for polling the mailboxes for email messages, and forwarding the email messages to respective mobile wireless communications devices. The at least one email aggregation server may divide each of a plurality of repeating polling time intervals into a plurality of subintervals, and schedule each mailbox for at least a first type polling over each subinterval and for a second type polling over each polling time interval. The second type polling may be more comprehensive than the first type polling. The at least one email aggregation server may distribute the second type polling of the mailboxes over each polling time interval. | 10-16-2008 |
20080256197 | EMAIL SYSTEM INCLUDING EMAIL AGGREGATION SERVER PROVIDING SECURITY PARAMETER DETERMINATION FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - An email system may include at least one email server having mailboxes for storing email messages therein, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices. The system may also include at least one email aggregation server comprising a configuration module cooperating with the at least one email server for determining a plurality of operational configuration parameters for accessing a given mailbox by attempting access to the given mailbox using possible configuration parameters. The plurality of possible configuration parameters may include at least one possible email communication protocol security parameter. The at least one aggregation server may further include an aggregation module for forwarding email messages from the mailboxes to respective mobile wireless communications devices based upon the operational configuration parameters. | 10-16-2008 |
20080256195 | EMAIL SYSTEM INCLUDING EMAIL AGGREGATION SERVER PROVIDING STAGGERED INITIAL FALLBACK POLLING AND RELATED METHODS - An email system may include at least one subscribed mailbox server having a plurality of subscribed mailboxes and sending a new mail indication upon receiving a new email message, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices. The system may further include at least one email aggregation server for polling each subscribed mailbox for email messages based upon receiving a respective new email indication therefrom, and forwarding the email messages to respective mobile wireless communications devices. The at least one email aggregation server may perform a fallback polling of each subscribed mailbox based upon not having polled the subscribed mailbox for a threshold fallback time, and stagger respective initial fallback polling times of the subscribed mailboxes upon startup. | 10-16-2008 |
20080256193 | EMAIL SYSTEM INCLUDING AN EMAIL AGGREGATION SERVER PROVIDING POLLING TIME GAP COMPACTING AND RELATED METHODS - An electronic mail (email) system may include at least one email server having mailboxes for storing email messages, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices. The system may further include at least one email aggregation server for repetitively polling the mailboxes for email messages, and forwarding the email messages to respective mobile wireless communications devices. The at least one email aggregation server may determine time gapped polling of corresponding mailboxes defined by at least one time gap between successive polls, and time compact a subsequent polling of the corresponding mailboxes by removing the at least one time gap. | 10-16-2008 |
20080256179 | DIRECT ACCESS ELECTRONIC MAIL (EMAIL) DISTRIBUTION AND SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM WITH PROVISION FOR PRE-CONFIGURED SERVICE OFFERINGS - A communications system includes a network engine that communicates with a plurality of unsubscribed mobile wireless communications devices using a communications network for sending and receiving emails therefrom. A direct access server is operative with the network engine for polling electronic mailboxes of users and retrieving email from the electronic mailboxes and pushing any email through the network engine to selected user subscribed mobile wireless communications devices. This direct access server is operative for providing at least one pre-configured service offering to a user that is linked to mail-access parameters when a user configures their respective electronic mailbox. | 10-16-2008 |
20080254769 | WIRELESS EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING RESOURCE UPDATE TRACKING FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - A wireless communications system may include a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices to permit users to send and receive wireless electronic mail (email) messages. Each device may be enabled for email communication based upon user acceptance of terms and conditions (T&Cs) in a corresponding user selected language and in a corresponding version at a time of acceptance. The system may further include a resource deployment server which may include a database module for storing the corresponding user selected language and version for the accepted T&Cs for each user. The resource deployment server may also include a service module cooperating with the database module for enabling user review of the accepted T&Cs in the corresponding user selected language and version thereof, and independent of any subsequent change in the user selected language of a given mobile wireless communications device and independent of any subsequent change in version of the T&Cs. | 10-16-2008 |
20080201668 | EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING ELECTRONIC FILE ATTACHMENT FOLDER HIERARCHY AND RELATED METHODS - An email communications system for operating over a communications network may include an email server for sending and receiving electronic mail (email) messages via the communications network, where at least some of the received email messages include electronic file attachments. The system may further include a communications device comprising a display, a user input device, and a processor for communicating with the email server. The processor may also cooperate with the display and user input device for displaying an email folder hierarchy for user navigation of the received email messages, and for displaying an electronic file attachment folder hierarchy corresponding to the email folder hierarchy for navigating the electronic file attachments. | 08-21-2008 |