Patent ID: 8335823

Claim:
A method for handling an encoded message provided by a sender to a server, comprising: receiving at the server a first message, the first message being the encoded message, wherein the encoded message comprises a secure message; wherein the server removes any attachment data from the encoded message; determining at the server whether a second message, which is a portion of the encoded message that is less than the entire encoded message of the sender, or a third message, which is the entire encoded message of the sender, is to be sent to a wireless mobile communications device; generating at the server a message status indication about the received encoded message; wherein the message status indication also indicates if an attachment has been removed from the encoded message; determining a message size of the encoded message after any and all attachments are removed from the encoded message; and sending the message status indication and message data in separate transmissions to the wireless mobile communications device; wherein the message data sent to the wireless mobile communications device is either the second message or the third message; wherein the message status indication indicates to the wireless mobile communications device that an encoding-related operation is not to be performed by the wireless mobile communications device when the second message is sent to the wireless mobile communications device; wherein the message status indication indicates to the wireless mobile communications device that the encoding-related operation is to be performed by the wireless mobile communications device when the third message is sent to the wireless mobile communications device; wherein the encoding-related operation is a secure message-related operation; wherein based upon the message size of the encoded message, the wireless mobile communications device does not perform the secure message-related operation upon the message data provided by the server.