Patent ID: 7747691

Claim:
A system for transmitting messages to a plurality of wireless mobile communication devices configured to receive and process e-mail messages and direct wireless messages, comprising: a wireless server configured to detect e-mail messages that should be sent to the wireless mobile communication devices via a wireless communication network; a filter rules database for storing filter conditions and corresponding filter actions, including a virus filter condition corresponding to an email message being infected by a virus and a corresponding virus filter action; a rules applicator for applying the filter conditions to the detected e-mail messages to determine whether the detected messages match filter conditions; an action applicator for executing the filter actions upon detected e-mail messages that match the corresponding filter conditions; and an automatic message generator for generating, as the virus filter action, an all points bulletin message body and a list of recipients, the all points bulletin message body including information that indicates the status of an e-mail messaging server; wherein the all points bulletin message body is part of a direct wireless message and the direct wireless message is not an e-mail message, the direct wireless message being transmitted directly to the wireless communications devices by the wireless communication network so as to bypass an e-mail communication network.