Patent ID: 11902861
Assignee: ADVANCE LOCAL MEDIA LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A computing system, comprising:
one or more memories; and
one or more processor devices coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more processor devices configured to:
receive a first broadcast message associated with a first subscription content source of a plurality of subscription content sources;
determine a first set of destination SMS addresses from a plurality of destination SMS addresses, each destination SMS address in the first set of destination SMS addresses associated with a different subscription of a plurality of subscriptions to the first subscription content source and corresponding to a different mobile device of a plurality of mobile devices;
determine a second set of destination SMS addresses from the plurality of destination SMS addresses, each destination SMS address in the second set of destination SMS addresses associated with a different subscription of the plurality of subscriptions to the first subscription content source and corresponding to a different mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices;
cause a first SMS message to be sent in groups via at least one cellular network, each group comprising only one destination SMS address from the first set of destination SMS addresses and only one destination SMS address from the second set of destination SMS addresses, wherein the one destination SMS address from the first set of destination SMS addresses is sent via a first sender SMS address and the one destination SMS address from the second set of destination SMS addresses is sent via a second sender SMS address, until the first SMS message has been sent to each destination SMS address in the first set of destination SMS addresses and each destination SMS address in the second set of destination SMS addresses;
receive, from a first mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices, a reply SMS message made in response to the first SMS message received by the first mobile device, the reply SMS message being directed to the first sender SMS address and not being distributed to any other mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices; and
in response to the reply SMS message, cause a second SMS message that includes a first subscriber message to be sent to only the first mobile device via the at least one cellular network.