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Systems and methods for transmitting messages to predefined groups

  • US 6,442,250 B1
  • Filed: 08/22/2000
  • Issued: 08/27/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for transmitting messages to groups of message recipients, comprising:

  • receiving a message from a subscriber in an input format;

    identifying one of the groups of message recipients to receive the message;

    determining one or more output formats for the message for each of the message recipients in the group of message recipients;

    converting the message from the input format to the one or more output formats when the one or more output formats differ from the input format;

    transmitting the message to the group of message recipients in the one or more output formats; and

    monitoring a status of the transmission of the message to each of the message recipients in the group of message recipients, the status indicating whether the transmission was successful, resulted in a busy signal, resulted in a no-answer, or was answered by a voice storage device.

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