Patent ID: 8874669
Filing Date: 2014-10-28
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of communicating messages to a first electronic device and a second electronic device that are accessed by a common user and each have a different messaging address, the method comprising: receiving a first unique device identifier associated with the first electronic device at a messaging server, the first electronic device having a first messaging address unique to the first electronic device and used to transmit messages to the first electronic device, receiving registration information associated with the user, wherein the registration information includes a unique user identifier associated with the user at the messaging server; storing the first unique device identifier, the unique user identifier and a relationship between the first unique device identifier and the unique user identifier in a storage device at the messaging server, wherein the relationship is configured as a one-to-many relationship in which the one in the relationship is the unique user identifier and the many in the relationship is one or more unique device identifiers; receiving a second unique device identifier associated with the second electronic device and receiving registration information associated with the second electronic device, wherein the registration information associated with the second electronic device includes the unique user identifier associated with the user at the messaging server, the second electronic device having a second messaging address unique to the second electronic device and used to transmit messages to the second electronic device, the second messaging address different than the first messaging address; determining at the messaging server whether the first electronic device and the second electronic device share the unique user identifier, wherein if the first electronic device and the second electronic device share the unique user identifier, the unique device identifier associated with the second device is linked to the unique device identifier and the unique user identifier associated with the first electronic device through the one-to-many relationship and stored at the messaging server, wherein the devices having linked unique device identifiers comprises a message delivery group; and communicating messages transmitted via a communication medium and addressed to any one of the messaging addresses of the devices in the message delivery group to each of the devices in the message delivery group.