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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2006
Bruno R. Preiss, Waterloo, CA;
Giyeong Son, Mississauga, CA;
Allan Lewis, New Dundee, CA;
Research In Motion Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Abstract
A system is provided for providing content to a plurality of mobile electronic devices, where at least some of the mobile electronic devices have wireless communications capabilities. The system includes a first network for use with a second network. The first network comprises a wireless network system for communicating with at least some of the mobile electronic devices through wireless sessions; a wired to wireless gateway module connected to the wireless network system for interfacing between a wireless portion of the first network and a wired portion of the first network; a session control module interfacing with the wired to wireless gateway module for managing the wireless sessions and wired sessions; and a relay server module interfacing with the session control module and the wired to wireless gateway module, the relay server module for providing relayed content to the mobile electronic devices. The second network comprises an external server for providing content to the mobile electronic devices. The external server communicates directly with either the relay server module or the wired to wireless gateway module.