Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Don Kadyk

Vinay Deo

Michael J O'Leary

David Charles Tuniman

Dave Wecker

Pamela Goldschmidt

Neil Scott Fishman

Marc E Seinfeld

Brent E Curtis

Mark Ledsome

John Mark Miller

Dennis George Cronin

Methods, systems, and computer program products for customizing content based on at least one operating characteristic of a mobile client. A mobile gateway receives content from a content source, such as an email server, a Web server, or some other content server. For example, content may include email, calendar, contact, task, Web, notification, financial, sports data, configuration information, etc. The mobile gateway customizes the content based on transforms assigned to each mobile client. Transforms account for differences in the software, display, processor, memory, communication channel, and the like, of each mobile client, without imposing additional processing burdens on the content server. Processing that is common among several transforms may be shared. Mobile clients may be any type of computer, including telephones, pagers, PDAs, laptops, and other mobile gateways.

Pushing rich content information to mobile devices

A data structure in a computer-readable form is provided that includes a string construct and a data construct. The string construct is formed by translations of a string of values. The tag construct is concatenated to the string construct and includes at least one tag value. The tag construct represents at least two translations that were performed on the string of values to produce the string construct.

Computer-readable data structure for efficient routing and translation of data

The present invention is directed, in one embodiment, to a programming interface which enables device/protocol/network independent transmission of messages to, and programming of, mobile devices. In another embodiment, the present invention is directed to data structures maintained on, and supported by, the mobile devices. The present invention also, in another embodiment, provides security for programming messages and an acknowledgement channel over which the mobile device can acknowledge receipt of, and successful implementation of, a programming message.

System for broadcasting to, and programming, a mobile device in a protocol

Methods, systems, and computer program products for caching content that has been customized based on one or more operating characteristics of a mobile client. A mobile gateway receives content from a content source and customizes the content using transforms assigned to each mobile client. Transforms account for differences between mobile clients without imposing significant processing burdens on the content server. Copies of the content, the transformed content, and a transform identifier are cached at the mobile gateway so that subsequent requests for the content may be satisfied without requiring access to the content source. Processing that is common among several transforms may be shared. Mobile clients may be any type of computer.

Caching transformed content in a mobile gateway

First and second instances of a message are received over a wireless connection. It is determined whether the first and second instances of the message contain an error. If both instances contain an error, an error free instance of the message is reconstructed from the two erroneous instances by merging portions of the first and second instances.

Error correction on a mobile device

A computer readable medium in a computer system has instructions for storing a first and second data packet destined for the same address. The first and second data packets are appended together to produce a merged data packet that is then compressed to produce a compressed data packet. The compressed data packet is then sent to the common address.

Method and apparatus for bundling messages at the expiration of a time-limit

Method and apparatus for identifying individual messages in a single compressed data packet

A recovery system is capable of recovering a core set of data from an input set of data. The input set of data is accompanied by a translator identifier and both items are received by a receiver in the recovery system. The receiver passes the input set of data to a message router that is capable of accessing a tag list based on the translator identifier before the recovery system has translated the input set of data. The message router is also capable of routing data based on the accessed tag list.

System for efficient routing and translation of data

Method and apparatus for pre-compression packaging

A system and method for receiving wireless information on a portable computing device includes powering a wireless receiver only from a battery of the portable computing device. Receiving wireless information and storing the wireless information in memory of the wireless receiver. The wireless receiver wakes up a processor of the portable computing device when the wireless information fills a threshold of the memory available in the wireless receiver. The wireless information is then transferred from the memory of the wireless receiver to the memory of the portable computing device.

Receiving wireless information on a mobile device with reduced power consumption

System for broadcasting to, and programming, a motor device in a protocol, device, and network independent fashion

A method in a computer system examines a string of two-byte characters and determines if the first byte in each of the two-byte characters is the same. If the first byte is the same in each of the two-byte characters, the method converts the string of two-byte characters into a string of one-byte values by removing the first byte of each of the two-byte characters. A designation value is then concatenated to the string of one-byte values to indicate the value of the first byte removed from each two-byte character.

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Don Kadyk