Social media based messaging systems and methods
First Claim
1. A method of message distribution, the method performed in a distributed social media messaging system having one or more processors accessing one or more databases comprising user account records including user credential information for one or more social media hosting systems, the one or more databases being stored in at least one storage device coupled to the one or more processors, the method comprising:
- receiving at a distributed social media messaging system a first message from a sender of a first client system comprising a web browser, a graphical user interface and an operating system, the message to be transmitted to a social media hosting system comprising account records;
receiving at the distributed social media messaging system selection information from the sender, the selection information indicating which one or more users of the social media hosting system are to be recipients of the first message;
the distributed messaging system retrieving a first user credential of a selected first social media user account, the first user credential comprises a first authentication token;
the distributed social media messaging system packaging the first message and the first user credential into a first message package;
concatenating an API URL of the first social media hosting system with the first message and storing the result of the concatenation in a first standard class variable of a cURL library function;
storing the first authentication token in a second class variable of cURL library function; and
the distributed social media messaging system transmitting the first message package to a first social media hosting system of which the first user is a user to activate the account of the first user to induce, the first social media hosting system to distribute the first message according to the operation of the social media hosting system to users of the social media hosting system that include predetermined recipients of the first social media user account.
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Abstract
A method of message distribution, the method performed in a computer system having one or more processors accessing one or more databases comprising user account records, the one or more databases being stored in at least one storage device accessible by the one or more processors, the method including receiving a first message from a sender of a first client system, retrieving a first user credential of a first social media user account and a second user credential of a second social media user account stored in the one or more databases, packaging the first message and the first user credential into a first message package and the first message and the second user credential into a second message package, transmitting the first message package to a first social media system, the first social media system automatically distributing the first message to predetermined recipients of the first social media user account, and transmitting the second message package to the first social media system, the first social media system automatically distributing the first message to predetermined recipients of the second social media user account.
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29 Claims
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1. A method of message distribution, the method performed in a distributed social media messaging system having one or more processors accessing one or more databases comprising user account records including user credential information for one or more social media hosting systems, the one or more databases being stored in at least one storage device coupled to the one or more processors, the method comprising:
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receiving at a distributed social media messaging system a first message from a sender of a first client system comprising a web browser, a graphical user interface and an operating system, the message to be transmitted to a social media hosting system comprising account records; receiving at the distributed social media messaging system selection information from the sender, the selection information indicating which one or more users of the social media hosting system are to be recipients of the first message; the distributed messaging system retrieving a first user credential of a selected first social media user account, the first user credential comprises a first authentication token; the distributed social media messaging system packaging the first message and the first user credential into a first message package; concatenating an API URL of the first social media hosting system with the first message and storing the result of the concatenation in a first standard class variable of a cURL library function; storing the first authentication token in a second class variable of cURL library function; and the distributed social media messaging system transmitting the first message package to a first social media hosting system of which the first user is a user to activate the account of the first user to induce, the first social media hosting system to distribute the first message according to the operation of the social media hosting system to users of the social media hosting system that include predetermined recipients of the first social media user account. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. In a multi-tiered social networking environment comprising a sender, at least one distributed social media messaging system and a plurality of recipients, each recipient of the plurality of recipients being a predetermined recipient of messages from a social media hosting system, a method of distributing messages comprising:
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transmitting a first message package to a social media hosting system, through a first internet communication stream and distributed social media messaging system, the social media hosting system automatically distributing a first message of the first message package to each predetermined recipient of a first user account of the social media hosting system comprising account records; executing a cURL session with a first social media hosting system having the first account; transmitting a second message package to the social media hosting system, through a second internet communication stream and the distributed social media messaging system to the social media hosting system, the social media hosting system automatically distributing a second message of the second message package to each predetermined recipient of a second user account of the social media hosting system, the second user account is a predetermined recipient of the first user account; receiving a client message from a client system comprising a web browser, a graphical user interface and an operating system; executing a cURL session with the first social media hosting system having the second user account; packaging the client message received from the client system and the user credentials of the first user account into the first message package, the first message of the first message package corresponds to the client message from the client system; and packaging the client message received from the client system and the user credentials of the second user account into the second message package, the second message of the second message package corresponds to the client message from the client system. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29)
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