Wireless Email Forwarding via Server-Side Portion Retrieval
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Solution Overview
Problem
When forwarding or replying to an email from a wireless device, users may inadvertently send sensitive information to unintended recipients because they have not viewed or downloaded the entire original message, leading to security concerns and resource conservation issues.
Innovation Solution
A method and system where the wireless server determines and sends only the viewed or received portions of an email message, using a message identifier and portion indicator, to prevent the transmission of unread text, ensuring secure and optimized resource usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If only portions of email messages are downloaded to conserve bandwidth and device resources, then network and device resources are conserved, but users may inadvertently send sensitive information to unintended recipients
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by downloading the complete email message to the mail server before the forwarding operation. When a user initiates a forward or reply with additional recipients, the server retrieves the full original message content, ensuring that all information is available for proper forwarding while the user's device maintains its resource conservation benefits.
Solution Approach 2:
The mail server acts as an intermediary between the wireless device and the email forwarding process. The server receives the forwarding request, retrieves the complete original message from storage, and sends it to the appropriate recipients. This intermediary approach allows the user's device to operate with limited downloaded content while ensuring complete and accurate message forwarding through the server's full access to the original content.
2Reliability
If the entire email message is downloaded to the device, then complete information is available for forwarding, but network bandwidth and device resources are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the email handling process into two distinct phases: (1) selective portion downloading to the user's device for viewing with resource conservation, and (2) complete message retrieval from the server when forwarding is required. This segmentation allows the user device to maintain low resource usage while the server handles the complete message operations.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of requiring the user's device to store and process the complete email message, the system creates a copy of the full message on the mail server. When forwarding is needed, the server retrieves this copy rather than requiring the user device to have the complete content locally, thus conserving device resources while ensuring complete message availability for forwarding.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method of sending an e-mail message associated with a wireless device is provided. A request to forward or reply to an original e-mail message is sent from the wireless device to a server. The request contains one or more recipients and includes a message identifier of an original e-mail message. A portion indicator is provided for retrieving portions of the original e-mail message identified by the message identifier. An e-mail message is sent to the one or more recipients comprising any added user text and the one or more retrieved portions of the original e-mail message such that text of the original message that the user may not be aware is not forwarded to new recipients.