METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ELECTRONIC MEMORIAL EXPRESSION TO THE DECEASED

• US 20170317956A1
• Filed: 05/02/2016
• Published: 11/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Richard D. Yelvington
• Original Assignee: Richard D. Yelvington
• Inventors: Yelvington, Richard D.
• Application Number:
  US15/144,248
• Publication Number:
  US 20170317956A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services

Abstract

A system and method for collecting and transmitting messages to the deceased.

Claims

1. A system for sending a message with the express intent that the message not be received by an intended addressee, comprising:

a) a data processing device configured to collect a message;

b) an electromagnetic transmitter; and

c) a message processing device to encode and/or transmit the message to the electromagnetic transmitter,

whereby the message is transmitted from the electromagnetic transmitter with the express intent that the message not be received by the intended addressee.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the data processing device and the message processing device are the same device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the data processing device is configured to share the message with at least one person other than the intended addressee.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the share is effected by a transmission selected from the group consisting of email, a webpage, social media, cellphone text messaging, and combinations thereof.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising means to transmit an attachment with the message.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the attachment is a photo.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the attachment is a voicemail.

8. The system of claim 5 wherein the attachment is a text message.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the intended addressee is a deceased person.

10. The system of claim 9 configured to allow a user to display a memorial gift or memorial message in honor of the deceased.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein the memorial gift or memorial message is shared with another.

11-1. The system of claim 1 wherein the data processing device is a portable computing device.

12. A system for sending a message with the express intent that the message not be received by an intended addressee, comprising:

a) a software application residing on a device having a CPU capable of running the software application, the software application for producing the message by providing means for inputting the message and means for addressing the message to the intended addressee;

b) an electromagnetic transmitter; and

c) a message processing device for processing the message including encoding the message in a form that can be transmitted addressed to the intended addressee and then sending the message from the software application to the electromagnetic transmitter,

whereby the message is transmitted from the electromagnetic transmitter with the express intent that the message not be received by the intended addressee.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the share is effected by a transmission selected from the group consisting of email, a webpage, social media, cellphone text messaging, and combinations thereof.

14. The system of claim 12, further comprising means to transmit an attachment with the message.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the intended addressee is a deceased person.

16. A method of sending a message with the express intent that the message not be received by an intended addressee, comprising:

a) inputting a message into a data processing device configured to collect the message;

b) transmitting the message to a message processing device to encode the message for an electromagnetic transmitter and/or transmit to the message to the electromagnetic transmitter configured to direct electromagnetic waves from the electromagnetic transmitter;

c) transmitting the message in electromagnetic waves.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the method is carried out by a system comprising:

a) a data processing device configured to collect the message;

b) the electromagnetic transmitter; and

c) the message processing device,

whereby the message is transmitted from the electromagnetic transmitter with the express intent that the message not be received by the intended addressee.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the method is carried out by a system comprising:

a) a software application residing on a device having a CPU capable of running the software application, the software application for producing the message by providing means for inputting the message and means for addressing the message to the intended addressee;

b) the electromagnetic transmitter; and

c) the message processing device for processing the message includes encoding the message in a form that can be transmitted addressed to the intended addressee and then sending the message from the software application to the electromagnetic transmitter,

whereby the message is transmitted from the electromagnetic transmitter with the express intent that the message not be received by the intended addressee.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the intended addressee is a deceased person.