Patent ID: 8204513
Filing Date: 2012-06-19
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for communicating an electronic message from a first user to registered acquaintances of the first user, the method comprising: receiving, at a messaging server system, a first text message from the first user; analyzing the first text message to determine (a) an identifier for the first user and (b) a subject of the text message; using the identifier for the first user to determine one or more registered users who are not identified in the received first text message but are identified in the server system as having been previously determined to be registered acquaintances of the first user, either by the first user or by particular ones of the one or more registered acquaintances; generating a second text message using the subject of the first text message; and broadcasting the generated second text message to the identified one or more registered acquaintances.