IP Library › Granted Patent US 9,037,114
Granted Patent B2
US 9,037,114 · App. 12/685,719 · Granted May 19, 2015

SMS message notification arrangement

Inventor: Sami Khoury (Seattle, WA)
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
H04L12/587H04L12/5895H04L51/24
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,037,114
App. No.
12/685,719
Granted
May 19, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for applying personalized rules to an incoming e-mail message includes receiving an e-mail message addressed to a user and forwarding a copy of the e-mail message to a mobile communication device associated with the user. One or more pre-defined rules associated with the user are applied to the e-mail message. At least one of the pre-defined rules is identified that the e-mail message satisfies. The identified rule specifies that a text message such as an SMS message be sent to the mobile communication device indicating that an e-mail message satisfying the pre-defined rule has been received. The text message includes a link that allows the user to directly access the e-mail with the mobile communication device's user interface.

Claims (25)

1. A method performed on at least one computing device, the method comprising:

forwarding, by the at least one computing device, an e-mail message to a user's communication device; and

sending, by the at least one computing device in response to the forwarded e-mail message being considered a priority e-mail message, a real-time message to the user's communication device, where the sent real-time message includes a link that points to a location on the user's communication device of the forwarded e-mail message.

2. The method of claim 1 where the real-time message is a short message service (SMS) message.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving the e-mail message, where the forwarding is in response to the receiving;

applying rules associated with the user to the received e-mail message;

generating, based on the applying, the real-time message.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising determining that the forwarded e-mail message is considered the priority e-mail message based on rules associated with the user.

5. The method of claim 1 where the at least one computing device are part of a messaging system with which the user's communication device is registered.

6. The method of claim 1 where the real-time message includes an e-mail address or a name of a sender of the e-mail message.

7. The method of claim 1 where the real-time message includes information obtained from a subject field or a body of the e-mail message.

8. A system comprising a user's communication device and at least one software module that are together configured for performing actions, the user's communication device comprising a processor and memory, the actions comprising:

receiving, by the user's communication device, a forwarded e-mail message that is considered a priority e-mail message;

receiving, by the user's communication device, a real-time message that includes a link that points to a location on the user's communication device of the received e-mail message.

9. The system of claim 8 where the real-time message is an SMS message.

10. The system of claim 8 where the received real-time message includes an e-mail address or a name of a sender of the e-mail message, or information obtained from a subject field or a body of the e-mail message.

11. At least one tangible computer-readable media storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to perform actions comprising:

forwarding, by the at least one computing device, an e-mail message to a user's communication device; and

sending, by the at least one computing device in response to the forwarded e-mail message being considered a priority e-mail message, a real-time message to the user's communication device, where the sent real-time message includes a link that points to a location on the user's communication device of the forwarded e-mail message.

12. The at least one tangible computer-readable media of claim 11 where the real-time message is a short message service (SMS) message.

13. The at least one tangible computer-readable media of claim 11 , the actions further comprising generating the real-time message.

14. The at least one tangible computer-readable media of claim 11 , the actions further comprising determining that the forwarded e-mail message is considered the priority e-mail message based on rules associated with the user.

15. The at least one tangible computer-readable media of claim 11 where the real-time message includes an e-mail address or a name of a sender of the e-mail message.

16. The at least one tangible computer-readable media of claim 11 where the real-time message includes information from a subject field or a body of the e-mail message.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 9, 2014
From: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
To: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Reel/Frame 034564/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 13, 2010
From: KHOURY, SAMI
To: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 023770/0936 →
Continuity (1)
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