Patent ID: 7426533
Filing Date: 2008-09-16
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A messaging system comprising a messaging engine for operating under user instructions to generate and transmit messages addressed to recipient contacts; characterized in that the system comprises a server comprising: a client interface comprising means for allowing access by a plurality of users of registered clients; a client manager comprising means for maintaining a database of registered clients; a content manager comprising means for receiving content items uploaded from users and for storing said content in a content database; means in the content manager for selecting content items for a message; means in the messaging engine for generating and sending a message with links to selected content items in the content database; a response management function comprising means for monitoring a response from a recipient contact using said links, wherein the response management function is configured to automatically capture and record each action the recipient contact takes in the message; a build function comprising means for building content for the responding recipient contact according to the links used by said contact to respond; and means in the response management function for sending the built content to the responding recipient contact, wherein the messaging engine comprises means for: receiving a message generated by a user locally using an external messaging application; and parsing said message and generating a message having a wrapper with links to content of the content database according to the parsing.