Patent ID: 8131678
Filing Date: 2012-03-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. In a broadcast messaging system, a synchronization and update apparatus comprising: a first database storing a call list in a first format and a first configuration; said first database being in operative communication with a processor, said processor being programmed to broadcast a message through a communications network to a plurality of message receivers on the call list; a second processor, said second processor being in operative communication with said first processor, said second processor being programmed as a synchronization apparatus to synchronize the call list in said first database from updated call list content in a second database, the call list in said second database being in a second configuration and either in said first format or a second format; said synchronization being executable after only entry of at least one configuration instruction for at least one call list column; whereby, after said configuration instruction, changes made to the content of the call list in the second database are made in the call list in said first database without upload instructions by a user of said second processor and without accessing said first database by a user of said second processor.