Automatic and confirmed message receipt
First Claim
19-1. The communication system of claim 22 wherein each notification is associated with an expiration time, and the communication system is operable to send a subsequent notification upon expiration of a prior notification.
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Abstract
Services, systems and methods for managing, streamlining and tracking the communication between administrators and members of an organized group such as sports teams, scouts, church groups, PTA, clubs, business teams, board members and the like. The service is well suited for activities whose events are subject to change on a short notice, but is equally attractive to activities that require a fair amount of communication. Communication with activity members is managed as a combination of email, recorded and dynamically generated telephone messages depending on the urgency of the information.
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19-1. The communication system of claim 22 wherein each notification is associated with an expiration time, and the communication system is operable to send a subsequent notification upon expiration of a prior notification.
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20. A communication system comprising:
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a message center having resources for receiving and storing messages for a particular group of members;
a data structure within the message center for storing membership records for one or more groups, the membership records defining contact information for each member;
a notification system operable to identify members of the particular group that have not received a message stored for the particular group and to communicate a notification to the identified members; and
a message delivery system responsive to a request by a particular member to deliver a stored message to that particular member. - View Dependent Claims (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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