Patent ID: 7743156

Claim:
A method for communicating between a remote wireless device and one or more back-end devices on a computer network using wireless PIN-to-PIN messages to bypass one or more gateway devices on the computer network that are unavailable, the method comprising: cradling one or more wireless gateway devices to the computer network, wherein cradling the one or more wireless gateway devices to the computer network facilitates communication with the back-end devices on the computer network in a manner that bypasses the unavailable gateway devices on the computer network; determining a unique PIN identifier for the remote wireless device and further determining one or more respective unique PIN identifiers for the one or more cradled wireless gateway devices, wherein the unique PIN identifier for the remote wireless device and the unique PIN identifiers for the cradled wireless gateway devices facilitate communication over a wireless data network using PIN-to-PIN messages in a manner that bypasses the unavailable gateway devices on the computer network; sending the one or more respective unique PIN identifiers for the one or more cradled wireless gateway devices to the remote wireless device, wherein one or more of the cradled wireless gateway devices send the unique PIN identifiers for the cradled wireless gateway devices to the remote wireless device over the wireless data network; and communicating information between the back-end devices on the computer network and the remote wireless device over the wireless data network, wherein communicating the information over the wireless data network includes: sending at least one first PIN-to-PIN message from at least one of the cradled wireless gateway devices to the remote wireless device over the wireless data network, wherein the at least one cradled wireless gateway device uses the unique PIN identifier for the remote wireless device to send the at least one first PIN-to-PIN message to the remote wireless device over the wireless data network; receiving, at the at least one cradled wireless gateway device, at least one second PIN-to-PIN message from the remote wireless device over the wireless data network, wherein the remote wireless device uses the unique PIN identifier for the at least one cradled wireless gateway device to send the at least one second PIN-to-PIN message to the at least one cradled wireless gateway device over the wireless data network; detecting, by the remote wireless device, that a message is being transmitted from the remote wireless device to an intended destination; determining, by the remote wireless device, whether the message is to be archived; and transmitting, by the remote wireless device, content of the message to a predetermined archive destination that is different and remote from the remote wireless device in response to the remote wireless device determining that the message is to be archived, wherein the archive destination is configured to archive the content transmitted by the remote wireless device.