Patent ID: 8244669
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for determining membership in a group of notification recipients and issuing a notification to the group of notification recipients, comprising: a recipient module configured to store information regarding a set of potential recipients of notifications; a tagging module configured to associate the potential recipients with at least one descriptor comprising an indicator of a gender, grade level, geographical location, educational institution, language, age, physical characteristic, academic characteristic, employment characteristic, political characteristic, performance information, or course information; a grouping module configured to dynamically form a group of recipients to receive at least one notification based on the descriptors currently associated with the set of potential recipients of notifications, wherein dynamic formation of the group of recipients includes changing membership in the group of recipients in response to a change in the descriptors associated with the set of potential recipients of notifications; and a transmission module configured to transmit the at least one notification to the group of recipients.