Method, System, Apparatus, and Computer Program Product for Transmitting a Message

• US 20100290599A1
• Filed: 07/26/2010
• Published: 11/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cloudrock LLC (Slingshot Technologies LLC)
• Original Assignee: Strykert Institute LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: WEKSEL, David
• Granted Patent: US 7,991,130 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/88.08
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/60 Medium conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53366 Message disposing or creating aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53375 Message broadcasting

Abstract

A method for effecting delivery of a message from an originator in an original message format to a plurality of authorized receivers in a respective reception message format includes: (a) composing the message; (b) characterizing the message for addressing to indicate at least one feature of the message; (c) addressing the message according to the characterizing pursuant to information provided in a data base that identifies particulars relating to each respective authorized receiver; the addressing establishing selected receivers of the plurality of authorized receivers as permitted receivers; the particulars including the appropriate respective reception message format for each respective permitted receiver; and (d) transmitting the message to each respective permitted receiver via a communication network that includes respective communication media configured for delivering the message in the appropriate respective reception message format to each respective permitted receiver.

Claims

1. A method for delivering a message to a plurality of recipients, comprising:

receiving, by a message broadcast delivery system, a message from an originator;

determining, by the message broadcast delivery system, a set of attributes associated with the message;

determining, by the message broadcast delivery system, a set of recipients for the message, wherein the determining a set of recipients includes;

for each recipient in a set of potential recipients,

comparing message filtering criteria of the recipient with one or more attributes in the set of attributes associated with the message, wherein a message filtering criterion includes a location condition; and

adding the recipient to the set of recipients for the message responsive to a determination that the one or more message filtering criteria of the recipient matches the one or more attributes in the set of attributes associated with the message; and

transmitting the message from the message broadcast delivery system to each recipient in the set of recipients.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining a set of attributes associated with the message further comprises:

determining a set of delivery criteria associated with the originator; and

adding the set of identified delivery criteria to the set of attributes.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein a message filtering criterion includes the geographic location of the recipient.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a message filtering criterion includes desired redemption attributes of the recipient.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein a message filtering criterion includes a historical account of past redemption activities.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining a set of attributes associated with the message further comprises:

parsing the content of the message received from the originator to identify one or more content attributes of the message; and

adding the one or more content attributes to the set of attributes associated with the message.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein a content attribute is whether the message received from the originator is an advertisement.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein a message filtering criterion includes the message formats supported by the recipient.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting the message to each recipient in the set of recipients comprises:

translating the message to a format acceptable to a recipient in the set of recipients; and

transmitting the translated message to the recipient.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving one or more message filtering criteria from a potential recipient; and

updating a database record for the potential recipient with the one or more message filtering criteria received from the potential recipient.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the location condition includes a location of the recipient relative to a location of an object of the message.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the location condition corresponds to a distance between the recipient and the object of the message.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the location condition corresponds to a common geographical area.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the common geographical area is a geographical area having a common zip code.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the location of the recipient is a current location of the recipient.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the location of the recipient includes a historical location of the recipient.

17. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions, execution of which by a computing device causes the computing device to perform operations for delivering a message to a plurality of recipients in a message broadcast system, the operations comprising:

receiving a message from an originator;

determining a set of attributes associated with the message;

determining a set of recipients for the message, wherein the determining a set of recipients includes;

for each recipient in a set of potential recipients;

comparing message filtering criteria of the recipient with one or more attributes in the set of attributes associated with the message, wherein a message filtering criterion includes a location condition; and

adding the recipient to the set of recipients for the message responsive to a determination that the one or more message filtering criteria of the recipient matches the one or more attributes of the set of attributes associated with the message; and

transmitting the message to each recipient in the set of recipients.

18. A message broadcast system comprising:

a recipient database configured to store, for each recipient in a set of potential recipients, message filtering criteria for the recipient, wherein a message filtering criterion includes a location condition;

a message broadcast processor configured to receive a message from an originator, to determine a set of attributes associated with the message, to determine from the set of potential recipients in the recipient database a set of recipients for the message, including, for each recipient of the set of potential recipients, (i) comparing message filtering criteria of the recipient in the recipient database with one or more attributes in the set of attributes associated with the message, and (ii) adding the recipient to the set of recipients for the message responsive to a determination that the one or more message filtering criteria of the recipient matches the one or more attributes of the set of attributes associated with the message received from the originator, and to transmit the message to each recipient in the set of recipients.

19. A message broadcast system comprising:

a recipient database configured to store, for each recipient of a set of potential recipients, message filtering criteria for the recipient, wherein a message filtering criterion includes a location condition; and

message broadcast means for receiving a message from an originator, determining a set of attributes associated with the message, determining a set of recipients for the message, including, for each recipient of the potential recipients, (i) comparing the message filtering criteria of the recipient stored in the recipient database with one or more attributes in the set of attributes associated with the message, and (ii) adding the recipient to the set of recipients for the message responsive to a determination that the one or more message filtering criteria of the recipient matches the one or more attributes of the set of attributes associated with the message, and transmitting the message to each recipient in the set of recipients.