Email Server Queue Manager for Threshold Job Processing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing email distribution and synchronization systems face challenges in managing multiple email accounts across different servers, particularly in wireless networks, due to non-uniform access configurations and the need for manual organization of emails, leading to inefficiencies in email management.
Innovation Solution
A direct access email distribution and synchronization system that allows direct access to multiple mail sources from mobile devices, eliminating the need for intermediate mailboxes and enabling efficient processing of email jobs through a pending and processing email job queue manager, which processes emails in the order they are received and discards duplicates, thereby optimizing email management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If emails are distributed and synchronized across multiple mailboxes and wireless networks, then email accessibility and synchronization capability are improved, but system complexity and difficulty of organization increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a mail routing server as an intermediary component that mediates between multiple email sources and the user's wireless device. This server consolidates email routing logic, manages multiple mailbox connections, and handles synchronization operations centrally, thereby reducing the complexity burden on individual devices while maintaining comprehensive email synchronization capability across multiple accounts and platforms
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple email accounts are configured with different access criteria, then email account versatility is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The mail routing server implements a universal email access interface that can handle multiple email account types and protocols through a single unified system. The server provides multi-functional capabilities including email retrieval, forwarding, filtering, and synchronization across diverse email providers, allowing users to access and organize emails from multiple accounts with different configurations through a consistent operation mode rather than managing each account separately
3Reliability
If copies of emails are kept in original mailboxes after receiving, then email data completeness is improved, but ease of organization deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The mail routing server acts as an intermediary that manages email copies between original mailboxes and the user's wireless device. It maintains data completeness by preserving emails in source mailboxes while simultaneously providing organized access through the server's routing and filtering mechanisms. The server can selectively forward, filter, or organize email copies without requiring users to manually manage duplicates across multiple locations
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic mail (email) server may include a pending email job queue manager for storing a plurality of email jobs for a plurality of users, and a processing email job queue manager. The processing email job queue manager may be for processing a threshold number of email jobs from the pending email job queue manager for a given user if a plurality of email jobs greater than the threshold number are available from the pending email job queue manager for the given user.