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Application program interface for message routing and management system

  • US 6,842,772 B1
  • Filed: 07/21/2000
  • Issued: 01/11/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Apparatus comprising:

  • a messaging application program interface (API), a network interface, a messaging facility, and remote enterprise applications, the API and network interface interfacing the messaging facility with the remote enterprise applications;

    plural sender computers, each of the plural sender computers comprising a message compose mechanism to compose a message and compose a corresponding designation, the corresponding designation comprising destination information identifying (i) a set of multiple human recipients and (ii) different modalities for transmitting the message to respective ones of the multiple human recipients;

    the API comprising a message and designation receive mechanism to receive, from the remote enterprise applications via the network connection, the message and corresponding designation; and

    the API comprising a messaging facility direction mechanism to direct the messaging facility to effect transmission of each of the messages to their corresponding destinations in accordance with their corresponding designations.

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