System and method of a relay server for managing communications and notification between a mobile device and application server

Abstract

Providing a mobile device with web-based access to data objects is disclosed. Authentication information is sent from a mobile device to a relay server. The relay server executes a connection application to establish a connection to a web access server. The authentication information is provided to the web access server associated with a data store hosting a data object. Upon authentication, the data object is provided to the relay server from the data store. The data object is then provided to the mobile device.

I/we claim: 
     
         1 . A method of providing a mobile device web-based access to a data object, the method comprising:
 establishing, by a relay server, a connection to a web access server associated with the application server;   enabling access of the relay server to the data object hosted by the application server in response to authentication of access to the application server; and   receiving, by the relay server, keep-alives from the mobile device to maintain connectivity between the mobile device and the relay server.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 determining, by the relay server, that the data object has been updated; and   sending a notification to the mobile device that the object has been updated.   
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 determining, by the relay server, that the data object has been updated; and   automatically sending an updated version of the data object to the mobile device.   
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 in response to detecting that the data object has been updated, sending a query to determine whether a user of the mobile device wishes to receive an updated version of the data object; and   transmitting the updated version of the data object to the mobile device in response to determining that the user wishes to receive the updated version of the data object.   
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein, the relay server generates keep alives to be sent to the web access server. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising, sending, by the relay server keep alives to the web access server. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein, the relay server receives instructions from the mobile device to generate keep alives to be sent to the web access server. 
     
     
         8 . A method of providing a mobile device web-based access to a data object, the method comprising:
 establishing, by a relay server, a connection to a web access server associated with the application server;   wherein, access of the relay server to the data object hosted by the application server is enabled in response to authentication of access to the application server;   generating, by the relay server, keep alives to be sent to the web access server to maintain connectivity between the relay server and the web access server; and   sending the keep alives to the web access server.   
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 8 , wherein, the relay server receives instructions to generate keep alives to be sent to the web access server. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein, the instructions are received from the mobile device. 
     
     
         11 . A method of providing a mobile device web-based access to a data object, the method comprising:
 establishing, by a relay server, a connection to a web access server associated with the application server;   enabling access of the relay server to the data object hosted by the application server in response to authentication of access to the application server;   receiving the data object from the application server and subsequently determining that the data object has been updated; and   notifying the mobile device indicating that the data object has been updated.   
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 11 , further comprising, receiving, at the relay server, credential information for the authentication of access from the mobile device. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 11 , further comprising, retrieving credential information for the authentication of access from a database at the relay server. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 11 , wherein, the notifying the mobile device includes sending an updated version of the data object. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 11 , wherein, the notifying the mobile device includes sending a query to determine whether a user of the mobile device wishes to receive an updated version of the data object.