Patent ID: 7412484

Claim:
A system for delivering emails to a user, comprising: a network-connected server for receiving and processing the emails; a data base at the network server for storing user preferences used by the network-connected server for processing the emails; a wireless transmission facility in communication with the network-connected server, for transmitting the emails; and a portable playback device enabled for connection to a user computer and receiving the emails transmitted by the transmission facility and to display the emails as text to the user; wherein the server transmits emails to the user computer for download to the portable device via the network while the device is connected to the user computer, and upon disconnection of the portable device from the user computer the server is instructed by signal sent from either the user computer or from the playback device that the user is now in the field, and the server transmits the emails directly to the portable device via the wireless transmission facility while the user is in the field.