Patent ID: 6205330
Filing Date: 2001-03-20
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
A method of a server, which server is operatively connected to a mobile telephone network, such as a GSM system, and to an external network, such as the Internet, for transferring electronic mail between the external network and a mobile telephone subscriber of the mobile telephone network the method comprising the steps of:storing an electronic mail received from said external network and addressed to said mobile telephone subscriber;forming an agent byte sequence that includes field with coded information, wherein one field includes information identifying said electronic mail and another field includes information identifying said server;initiating transmission of an SMS message to a mobile station of said mobile telephone subscriber, wherein said agent byte sequence is included in the user text part of the SMS message; andtransmitting said electronic mail, upon a request from said mobile telephone subscriber, which request includes identifying information of said electronic mail, to said mobile station using a data connection provided by said mobile telephone network.