Localized Time Zone Delivery System and Method

• US 20080147809A1
• Filed: 10/24/2007
• Published: 06/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mapp Digital US LLC
• Original Assignee: Digital River Incorporated (Danube Private Holdings II, LLC)
• Inventors: Byers, Eric Lee, Smith, Daniel Thomas
• Granted Patent: US 9,767,462 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

In a preferred embodiment, the objective is to give an e-commerce system user control over when a message is sent so that it arrives at a time that is relative to a subscriber'"'"'s local time zone. This gives users the ability to send messages to subscribers so that they are received by subscribers at a specific time of day in their time zone. For example, localized time zone delivery would send messages so that they are arrive in the inbox of subscriber “A” located in San Diego around 10:00 AM Pacific Time and around 10:00 AM Eastern Time for subscriber “B” who is located in Boston. Furthermore, localized time zone delivery allows system users to assign a time zone preference value to subscribers in their e-commerce system account.

Claims

1. A computerized local time delivered message system for use on a network, comprising:

a database having customer profile data where each customer record includes an email address and time zone information.

a software module operatively configured to utilize business user input to create a rule for sending messages at intervals based on the time zone information; and

an email campaign manager operatively configured to send a personalized message to a customer over the network based on the business user created rule and time zone information.

2. The local time delivered message system of claim 1 wherein the software module comprises an editor for creating dynamic content for the personalized message.

3. The local time delivered message system of claim 2 wherein the editor is operatively configured to create dynamic content in a format selected from a group consisting of:

plain text, rich text, hypertext markup language, and America Online.

4. A method for managing local time delivered messages for use on a network, comprising steps of:

storing customer profile data where each customer record includes an email address and time zone information;

utilizing business user input to create a rule for sending messages at intervals based on the time zone information; and

sending the personalized message to a customer over the network based on the business user created rule.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising a step of creating dynamic content for the personalized message.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the creating step comprises creating dynamic content in a format selected from a group consisting of:

plain text, rich text, hypertext markup language, and America Online.