Message collaborator

• US 20030101227A1
• Filed: 11/28/2001
• Published: 05/29/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alan Walter Fink
• Original Assignee: Alan Walter Fink
• Inventors: Fink, Alan Walter
• Application Number:
  US09/996,530
• Publication Number:
  US 20030101227A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/207
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/561 Adding application-functional data or data for application control, e.g. adding metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A message collaborator system and method establishes a relationship with more than one sender and a recipient. Directives are contained in the profile defining each of the relationships and how information is to be filtered or established into or out of a message. Rules are provided for collaborating all of these profiles in order to pull content from multiple sources remotely or from local databases containing content from the more than one sender, collecting the content into a single, comprehensive message and then delivering the single, comprehensive message to the recipient.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method comprising:

maintaining a profile for each of a plurality of senders;

Establishing a recipient preference;

Generating a single, comprehensive message comprising information according to the recipient preference and the profile for each of the plurality of senders; and

Delivering the single, comprehensive message to the recipient.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein maintaining the profile for each of the plurality of senders comprises:

receiving one or more sender preferences;

generating an action associated with a triggering event based on one or more of the one or more sender preferences;

and performing the action upon the occurrence of the triggering event.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the triggering event is determined by the recipient preference.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the triggering event is determined by a delivery matrix according to the profile of each of the plurality of senders and the recipient preference.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the action comprises inserting a sender placement into the message.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the sender placement comprises an advertisement.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the sender placement comprises a coupon.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the sender placement comprises a link to a sender web address.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the recipient preference comprises one or more directives.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein one or more of the one or more directives comprises a user defined request.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein establishing the recipient preference comprises receiving one or more directives from a recipient.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein there is no independent relationship between any pair of the plurality of senders.

13. A computer implemented method comprising:

maintaining a first profile comprising a plurality of filters of a first sender;

Maintaining a second profile comprising a plurality of filters of a second sender;

Associating a first action with any combination of the plurality of filters of the first sender;

Associating a second action with any combination of the plurality of filters of the second sender;

Generating a single message according to a collaboration of the first action and the second action; and

Delivering the single message to a recipient.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising maintaining a third profile of the recipient, wherein delivery of the single message is determined in accordance with the third profile.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the collaboration comprises combining the first action and the second action into a third action, wherein the third action is not identifiable in the one or more directives of the first sender nor in the one or more directives of the second sender.

16. A computer implemented method comprising:

Maintaining a first relationship with a first sender;

Maintaining a second relationship with a second sender;

Maintaining a third relationship with a recipient; and

Generating a message according to a combination of the first relationship, the second relationship and the third relationship.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein each of the first, the second and the third relationship exist and operate independently of each other.

18. A computer implemented method comprising:

maintaining a relationship profile for a plurality of senders;

maintaining a relationship for a plurality of recipients;

Generating a plurality of unique, comprehensive messages, each unique, comprehensive message corresponding to one of the plurality of recipients and comprising content according to a collaboration of the relationship of the one of the plurality of recipients and the relationship profile of each of the plurality of senders; and

Delivering the unique, comprehensive message to its corresponding recipient.