MAILBOX ACCESS MECHANISM OVER LOW-BANDWIDTH, HIGH-LATENCY WIRELESS NETWORKS

摘要

A push model notification and access mechanism to "push" the contents of a voice, fax, e-mail or unified mailbox to a wireless device such as a cellular (24) where this information is locally cached and almost instantly displayed so that the user can interact with the mailbox content locally without the need to set up or maintain a network connection with a messaging service (20). The user may then send a command through the wireless device (24) to the server (20) to access particular items of the content list of the mailbox which is refreshed at every new message notification or after the mailbox has been accessed by the user using more traditional methods such as by telephone call.