Patent ID: 7340244

Claim:
A method for backing-up and restoring personal data to and from a wireless telephone, comprising, but not necessarily in the order shown: (A) providing a wireless telephone; (B) establishing a first wireless communication connection between the wireless telephone and a remote computer network; (C) communicating between the wireless telephone and the remote computer network, over the first wireless communication connection, the identity of an archival function to be performed, wherein the archival function to be performed comprises backing up or restoring personal information; (D) terminating the first wireless communication connection; (E) establishing a second wireless communication connection between the wireless telephone and the remote computer network using a back-channel communication protocol; (F) performing the indicated archival function using the second wireless communication connection wherein: (a) the backup function comprises transmitting personal information from the wireless telephone to the remote computer network, wherein the transmitted personal information is stored in the remote computer network in a format that is not specific to the wireless telephone; and (b) the restore function comprises: (i) transmitting personal information from the remote computer network to the wireless telephone; and (ii) passing the information through a style sheet, the style sheet configured to format the transmitted data for use by the wireless telephone, (iii) storing the transmitted personal information in the wireless telephone; and (G) terminating the second communication connection; (H) wherein the back-channel communication protocol is selected from the group consisting of Small Messaging Service, GPRS, SyncML, and 3GPP; and (I) wherein a plurality of back-channel communication protocols are available for use in communicating between the remote computer network and the communication device, further comprising automatically selecting the most efficient back-channel communication protocol, from the plurality of available back-channel communicating protocols, for conducting the intended archival function.