Patent ID: 6968362

Claim:
An electronic bulletin board display system comprising: an application server configured to update a bulletin board display graphical user interface of a client computer that includes messages to different recipients by receiving and processing remote message manipulation instructions from one or more remote users, said instructions comprising a sender e-mail address, a recipient e-mail address pointing to the applications server, and a content for each message to be generated; wherein said application server looks up the recipient e-mail address of each message in a customer database to find a bulletin board address of a client gateway associated with the recipient e-mail address where the client computer providing the bulletin board display graphical user interface resides behind the client gateway, and wherein said application server updates the bulletin board display graphical user interface of the client computer by generating messages based on the remote message manipulation instructions and sending the messages to the client gateway in communication with said communications center such that the client computer automatically and concurrently displays the content of a plurality of the generated messages in the bulletin board display graphical user interface.