Patent ID: 7287058
Filing Date: 2007-10-23
Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. In a network environment that includes a client that is network connectable over a wireless network to a server so that the client may transmit document-inclusion operations that are intended to be carried out by the server, but wherein the wireless network may have limited throughput such that data transfer for document-inclusion operations may be unduly slow or costly, a method for reducing those instances when the document-inclusion operation transmitted to the server actually requires transmission of the document that is required by the server to complete the requested document-inclusion operation, thereby reducing instances of unduly slow or costly data transmission when performing such document-inclusion operations over the wireless network, the method comprising the following acts: displaying to a user at the client an indication that the document is attached to a message even when the document is not attached to the message and in response to user input received at the client instructing a document stored at the client to be attached to the message such that whether or not the document is actually attached is transparent to the user; sending from the client over the wireless network a document-inclusion instruction to the server, the document-inclusion instruction not including the document itself; and determining that the identified document is not already stored at the server, the client then indicating to the server that a different version of the document stored at the server is acceptable, whereupon the server executes the document inclusion instruction using the different version of the document.