Patent ID: 8230025

Claim:
A method of delivering messages to a communication device, the method comprising: for each message of a plurality of messages received at a server for delivery to the communication device, obtaining a probability that said message is spare; if said message is determined to be legitimate, the server transmitting a portion of said message for receipt by the communication device, the portion being an allowable data size; and for all other messages of the plurality of messages determined to be neither legitimate nor spare, the server correlating said message to one of a plurality of categories according to said probability, each of the plurality of categories corresponding to a range of probabilities and a percentage of the allowable data size, the ranges of probabilities inversely corresponding to the percentage of the allowable data size; and the server transmitting a smaller portion of said message thus correlated for receipt by the communication device, a size of the smaller portion being determined by said corresponding percentage of the allowable data size, such that different sizes of smaller portions are transmitted for different ones of the plurality of messages; wherein when said message is determined to be neither legitimate nor spam, providing options to indicate that the message is spam, indicate that the message is not spam, and request a further portion of the message; and in response to selection of the option to indicate that the message is not spam, providing the option to download an attachment to the message.