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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 15 2012 @ 10:14 AM EDT |
Biff indeed polled my local mail folders
sendmail on the senders server however pushed the mail to my corporate sendmail
server, which then pushed it to users local sendmail servers which then pushed
it to users local folders where biff would poll for it.
(though mmdf <spit!> might have been in that mix somewhere)
sendmail was/is perfectly capable of creating the notification, you just didn't
as it usually ran with different privileges where biff ran in your user domain.
'on a mobile network' is no more novel than 'on the internet' is no more novel
than 'on a network' is no more novel than 'on a computer' is no more novel than
'done by the man on the clapham omnibus' (or the postman lifting up the 'you got
mail flag' on your postbox in this case)
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Sunday, April 15 2012 @ 10:32 AM EDT |
Google provides an interface called "Android Cloud to
Device Messaging"
(C2DM), first introduced with Android
2.2
This service provides
developers with the ability to
initiate application events remotely, even
waking up the
device when desired. Developers send messages from remote
servers through the device's C2DM service, which delivers
the message to the
target application. See
http://code.google.com/android/c2dm/
The service provides a
simple, lightweight
mechanism that servers can use to tell mobile applications
to contact the server directly, to fetch updated application
or user data. The
C2DM service handles all aspects of
queueing of messages and delivery to the
target application
running on the target device.
This
certainly would qualify as "push" technology. So I
don't know what Motorola is
using, and why it wouldn't be
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- C2DM - Authored by: kuroshima on Sunday, April 15 2012 @ 12:11 PM EDT
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| Authored by: YetAnotherSteve on Sunday, April 15 2012 @ 07:26 PM EDT |
How about xbiff? That's push from the xhost to the xserver, and seems to be
from 1988.
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| Authored by: Tyro on Sunday, April 15 2012 @ 11:21 PM EDT |
You mean like how the pharmacy calls me up and tells me it's time to re-order my
prescriptions?
That doesn't sound worthy of a patent to me, just because somebody's added
"on a computer" to it.
N.B.: This isn't new. At one point some telegraph companies would call you on
the phone to tell you that you had a telegram. You may have had to arrange that
ahead of time, of course. That was a bit before I was aware of many of the
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