Patent ID: 7318073

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for downloading information between a mobile device and a server, the method comprising: detecting a download request, wherein the download request includes a user identification and a device type identifier, wherein the device type identifier identifies a type of mobile device associated with the download request; identifying email messages associated with the user identification; identifying attachments associated with the identified email messages; determining a device type associated with the device type identifier; accessing a profile associated with the determined device type, wherein the profile includes file types that are supported by the device type identified by the device type identifier; determining at least one supported file type from the profile; identifying attachments of the identified email messages that include the at least one supported file type that is supported by the device type identified by the device type identifier; and downloading attachments that include the at least one supported file type supported by the device type identified by the device type identifier, while attachments that do not include the at least one supported file type supported by the device type identified by the device type identifier are not downloaded.