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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 23, 1998
Rodd Bryan Zurcher, Lake Zurich, IL (US);
David Frank Baum, Lake Zurich, IL (US);
James Van Peursem, Hanover Park, IL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A communications device ( ) with a processor having instructions that execute on the processor. The programmed instructions include a message manager program ( ) for accepting and dispatching messages, one or more application programs ( ) for handling and presenting messages; and one ore more message client programs ( ) that receive messages from the message manager program ( ) and provides them to the application program. The message manager program ( ) accepts a registration from each message client program and sets rules, and message attributes to which the rules are to be applied for new messages.