Patent ID: 7623848

Claim:
A method for providing backup electronic messaging services to wireless devices during outages, comprising: sending email messages from a primary email system to a user's wireless device; when said primary email system is unavailable, redirecting said email messages from said primary email system to a secondary email system and from said secondary email system to said user's wireless device; notifying said user that said email messages are available on said user's wireless device through said secondary email system at a time when said redirection of said email messages has been implemented; at a time when said primary email service becomes available, redirecting said email messages from said secondary email system to said primary email system and from said primary email system to said user's wireless device; notifying said user that said email messages are available on said user's wireless device through said primary email system at a time when said redirection of said email messages has been implemented; and synchronizing said email messages received on said secondary email system while said primary email system was unavailable with the messages in said primary email system.