Processing and forwarding messages from a computer network to a forwarding service
CA 2651593 C · Owner: J2 Global Communications, Inc. · Inventors: Narasimhan, Anand; Flannery, Jude M.; Shemesh, Yaacov
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A message processing and forwarding system for processing electronic messages in digital format received over a computer communication path or network (111) and forwarded over a telephone circuit switched network to user's receiver (133) such as a pager. A content processor in a message server (103) processes the received digital message in accordance with knowledge of the receiver's capabilities and user-configured message filtering information to create a customized second message suitable for handling by the user's receiver (133) at a remote physical location. Also the system defines a distributed architecture for global paging including multiple redundancy, to yield a robust system. In …
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- Filed July 29, 1998 and granted September 18, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 29, 2018.
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