System and method for service specific notification
First Claim
1. A method for service specific notification comprising the steps of:
- defining at least one service, defining happenings related to each service, listing recipients, recipients defined as users or other parties designated to receive messages, associating the recipients with each services, defining and associating contact information with each of the recipients, composing specific messages for one or more of the recipients in response to one or more of the happenings occurring, and in response to the occurrence of a happening, sending out the associated specific messages to the associated recipients via the contact information.
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Abstract
A flexible, programmable messaging system and method for associating specific happenings with particular services and users associated with those services is disclosed. The contact means for the users are held in a single database with retrievable historical information regarding the user and/or the service. Users and administrators are defined where the user may exercise a group of predetermine privileges. Users may subscribe and un-subscribe to one or more services. The administrator may exercise more privileges or all the privileges, and the additional privileges will include creating messages related to specific happenings, editing of the billing for the service, editing subscription forms, managing the members of a service and tracking the delivery of message. The presentation pages and the messaging format are arranged using templates with predetermined information and formats that may be programmable. The system is arranged in a client/server arrangement where standard servers can be used. The users administrators, and messaging systems include virtually all forms of communications.
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1. A method for service specific notification comprising the steps of:
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defining at least one service, defining happenings related to each service, listing recipients, recipients defined as users or other parties designated to receive messages, associating the recipients with each services, defining and associating contact information with each of the recipients, composing specific messages for one or more of the recipients in response to one or more of the happenings occurring, and in response to the occurrence of a happening, sending out the associated specific messages to the associated recipients via the contact information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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14. A service specific notification system comprising:
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means for defining at least one services, a list of happenings related to each service, a list of recipients, recipients defined as users or other parties designated to receive messages means for associating the recipients with each service, contact information associated with each of the recipients, specific messages associating one or more of the recipients with one or more of the happenings, in response to the occurrence of a happening, means for sending out the associated specific messages to the associated recipients via the contact information.
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