Patent ID: 7730136
Filing Date: 2010-06-01
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for integrating a plurality of active electronic mail (email) accounts, comprising: a preferred email service associated with a mobile device and operable to send and receive electronic messages over a wide area network; a plurality of secondary email services operable to send and receive electronic messages over the wide area network; a user interface configured to receive account login information regarding an active email account; an email integration service coupled to the wide area network and independent of the preferred and secondary email services, the email integration service being configured to receive and store in a computer-readable medium account login information regarding an active email account managed by the preferred email service (primary account) and active email accounts managed by the secondary email services (secondary accounts), and the email integration service being further configured to use the stored account login information to configure a polling agent; and the polling agent configured to use the stored account login information to communicate periodically with the secondary email services to determine if electronic messages have been received by the secondary accounts since the polling agent last communicated with the secondary email services and, if so, to retrieve the received messages from the secondary email services and forward the retrieved messages to the primary account; wherein the account login information regarding each of the primary account and the secondary accounts includes a password; wherein electronic messages sent to the secondary accounts are forwarded to the primary account by the email integration service.