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Method and system for circulating messages

  • US 8,738,060 B2
  • Filed: 07/24/2013
  • Issued: 05/27/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for circulating a message to a group of people, comprising:

  • being instructed to send a message to a defined destination group of multiple mobile communicators;

    in response to said being instructed, sending the message and a distribution list comprising identifiers for all but a selected first one of the group of mobile communicators, to the selected first mobile communicator; and

    sequentially receiving the message and a distribution list, by a next mobile communicator, and, if the received distribution list is non-empty, then (i) selecting a next one of the mobile communicators identified in the distribution list, (ii) reducing the size of the distribution list by removing the identifier of the selected next mobile communicator therefrom, and (iii) sending the message and the reduced distribution list to the selected next mobile communicator.

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