Patent ID: 8549089

Claim:
A method to allow providing a user of a mobile telephone device with an indication that a message was sent to him/her by a sender via an internet-based application, irrespective of whether said user is currently actively connected to said Internet-based application, which method comprises the steps of: at a server, receiving said message that was sent to said user via said active internet-based application selected by the sender from among a plurality of available internet-based applications which are located at a location other than said mobile telephone device, said message received for forwarding towards said user; determining whether a virtual client entity specific to said user' s mobile telephone device had been created at said server, said virtual client entity being aware of resources associated with said mobile telephone device so that no configuration of the mobile telephone device is required for communicating with said virtual client entity, and said virtual client entity translating information received from the user into commands in a format that is suitable to communicate with said selected Internet-based application, and if in the affirmative, determining whether said user is currently actively connected to the selected Internet-based application; automatically storing the message if said user is not currently actively connected to said selected Internet-based application; providing by said virtual client entity, an indication that at least one message addressed to him/her has been stored that may be retrieved wherein said indication is provided even when said mobile telephone device is used by said user in a mode other than being in communication with an Internet-based application and enabling retrieval of said at least one message, wherein each of said at least one message is conveyed towards said user after having confirmed that it is in conformity with the resources associated with said mobile telephone device.