IP Library Granted Patent US 8,934,929
Granted Patent B2
US 8,934,929 · App. 13/483,628 · Granted Jan 13, 2015

Method and apparatus pertaining to conveying categorically-characterizing information

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Patent No.
US 8,934,929
App. No.
13/483,628
Granted
Jan 13, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

An apparatus receives a first wireless message via a first wireless transceiver, which first wireless message includes a content payload. The apparatus categorizes this first wireless message (for example, with respect to service type, a specific service, and/or a communication thread) and transmits, via a second wireless transceiver, a second message that includes the categorization information but not all (or necessarily even any) of the content payload. Upon then receiving, via that second wireless transceiver, a corresponding third message the apparatus determines a need to forward the content payload via that second wireless transceiver.

Claims (46)

1. An apparatus comprising:

a first wireless transceiver;

a second wireless transceiver configured to communicate via a first protocol;

a control circuit operably coupled to the first wireless transceiver and the second wireless transceiver and configured to:

receive a first wireless message via the first wireless transceiver, which first wireless message includes a content payload;

categorize the first wireless message to provide corresponding categorization information;

transmit, via the second wireless transceiver, a second message that includes the categorization information but not all of the content payload;

receive, via the second wireless transceiver, a third message;

process the third message to determine a need to forward the content payload via the second wireless transceiver.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the apparatus comprises a portable communications device.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the control circuit is configured to categorize the first wireless message based upon at least one of:

a service type;

a specific service;

a communication thread.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the control circuit is further configured to transmit, via the second wireless transceiver and as part of the second message, a unique non-address identifier.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein the control circuit is further configured to process the third message to determine a need to forward the content payload via the second wireless transceiver, at least in part, by processing the third message to detect the unique non-address identifier.

6. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein he control circuit is further configured to process the third message to determine a need to forward the content payload via the second wireless transceiver, at least in part, as a function of a recipient address as corresponds to the third message.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the control circuit is further configured, in response to determining a need to forward the content payload via the second wireless transceiver, transmitting the content payload as the body of an email via the second wireless transceiver.

8. A method comprising:

at a control circuit:

receiving a first wireless message via a first wireless transceiver, which first wireless message includes a content payload;

categorizing the first wireless message to provide corresponding categorization information;

transmitting, via a second wireless transceiver, a second message that includes the categorization information but not all of the content payload;

receiving, via the second wireless transceiver, a third message;

processing the third message to determine a need to forward the content payload via the second wireless transceiver.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the control circuit is configured to categorize the first wireless message based upon at least two of:

a service type;

a specific service;

a communication thread.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein:

transmitting the second message further comprises transmitting as part of the second message a unique non-address identifier; and

processing the third message to determine a need to forward the content payload via the second wireless transceiver comprises, at least in part, processing the third message to detect the unique non-address identifier.

11. An apparatus comprising:

a wireless transceiver;

a display;

a control circuit operably coupled to the wireless transceiver and the display and configured to:

receive, via the wireless transceiver, a first message that includes categorization information for corresponding available message content but not all content payload as corresponds to the message content;

use the categorization information to present categorically-parsed information regarding availability of the message content on the display;

upon detecting a user's selection of the categorically-parsed information, transmitting, via the wireless transceiver, a message to facilitate receiving the message content.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the categorization information categorizes the message content based upon at least two of:

a service type;

a specific service;

a communication thread.

13. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the first message further includes a unique non-address identifier and wherein transmitting the message to facilitate receiving the message content includes transmitting the unique non-address identifier.

14. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the control circuit is further configured to:

receive the message content as the body of an email regardless of whether the categorization information categorizes the message content as email content.

Assignments (4)
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Jun 19, 2023
From: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
To: MALIKIE INNOVATIONS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 064271/0199 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 16, 2023
From: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
To: MALIKIE INNOVATIONS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 064104/0103 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 20, 2014
From: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
To: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
Reel/Frame 034016/0419 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 24, 2012
From: STIRRETT, ALLAN JEFFREY; SARTORI, CHRISTOPHER F.; NATHWANI, SANJAY
To: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
Reel/Frame 028622/0415 →