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Progressive announcements in a web-based interactive meeting facility

  • US 10,298,410 B2
  • Filed: 01/05/2012
  • Issued: 05/21/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for issuing progressive announcements to members of a group, wherein the group comprises a plurality of members, and wherein at least one member of the group is an organizer of the group, comprising:

  • displaying an organizer user interface to the organizer;

    receiving, at a server computer from the organizer through the organizer user interface, a request to make an announcement to the group and a selection of at least one announcement delivery parameter comprising a new member status;

    determining, with at least one processor based at least partially on the at least one announcement delivery parameter, a plurality of subsets of a plurality of members of the group, the plurality of subsets comprising at least a first subset and a second subset, wherein members of the second subset are not members of the first subset, and wherein members of the second subset are new members that have not previously attended meetings or submitted RSVPs to meetings;

    transmitting data configured to display an announcement to the first subset of members;

    receiving RSVPs from members in the first subset of members after the data is transmitted to the first subset of members and before the data is transmitted to the second subset of members;

    determining that a number of RSVPs received from the first subset of members equals or exceeds a predetermined number of members; and

    after the data is transmitted to the first subset of members, transmitting data configured to display the announcement to the second subset of members, wherein the transmission of the data to the second subset of members is automatically initiated in response to determining that the number of RSVPs equals, exceeds, or is less than the predetermined number of members.

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