Patent ID: 7177404
Filing Date: 2007-02-13
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A Web-based, computer-implemented method for creating, scheduling and delivering messages using a messaging system, the method comprising: generating a plurality of messages from a plurality of message creators for a plurality of message recipients, each message creator having his own account with the messaging system, each message having a first audio component generated in response to input from a corresponding one of the message creators, the input including words entered by the corresponding message creator, the first audio component being operable to facilitate audible playback of the words; scheduling delivery of the messages at corresponding future times to communication devices in response to specification by the message creators of the future times and contact data corresponding to the communication devices; placing the messages in a common delivery queue ordered in accordance with the corresponding future times; establishing a connection to each communication device at the corresponding future time via at least one communications network; and transmitting the messages over the connections such that the words associated with the first audio component of the messages are audible via the communication devices; wherein generating and scheduling delivery of the messages are facilitated via the World Wide Web.