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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2012
Research IN Motion Limited, Waterloo, CA;
William David Castell, Waterloo, CA;
Allan David Lewis, New Dundee, CA;
Tabitha Kari Ferguson, Waterloo, CA;
Bill Yuan, Waterloo, CA;
Ian Michael Patterson, Petersburg, CA;
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Abstract
A messaging server forwards emails to mobile communication devices of users to whom the emails were respectively addressed. An antivirus server determines whether an email addressed to a user of a mobile communication device, to be forwarded by the messaging server to the mobile communication device, is infected with a virus. In response to determining the email is infected with a virus, a bulletin generator transmits, to the mobile communication devices besides the mobile communication device of the addressee of the email determined to be infected, an all points bulletin message disclosing the existence of the virus. The bulletin message is transmitted directly to, instead of via email to, the wireless mobile communication devices.