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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2005
Garrett R. Vargas, Sammamish, WA (US);
Paul K. Kroman, Redmond, WA (US);
Selvaraj Nalliah, Redmond, WA (US);
Eian D. Counts, Gangnam-Gu, KR;
Gary W. Hall, Redmond, WA (US);
Anoop Gupta, Seattle, WA (US);
Garrett R. Vargas, Sammamish, WA (US);
Paul K. Kroman, Redmond, WA (US);
Selvaraj Nalliah, Redmond, WA (US);
Eian D. Counts, Gangnam-Gu, KR;
Gary W. Hall, Redmond, WA (US);
Anoop Gupta, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate identifying messages generated on a mobile device while the device is offline as requiring encryption, storing the messages in a message outbox with a flag indicating that encryption is required, and identifying recipients of the flagged messages to generate a recipient list. The recipient list can be piggybacked on a server synchronization request when the mobile device enters a period of online activity, and a server can return public keys associated with identified recipients to permit an encryption component, such as a secure/multipurpose Internet mail extension protocol (S/MIME) encryption component, in the mobile device to encrypt the messages.