Patent ID: 8130917

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving from an originating user a broadcast message having an address designating at least in part a group of recipients; identifying an intended recipient for the broadcast message from the group based on at least a part of the address; storing a priority of devices associated with the intended recipient; determining a status of at least one of the devices associated with the intended recipient prior to sending the broadcast message, the status comprising one of online, offline, busy, and out-of-range; determining a destination device associated with the intended recipient based on the priority, the status, and at least one characteristic associated with such intended recipient; determining a device type of the determined destination device; and sending the broadcast message to the destination device of the intended recipient in accordance with a sending method that is associated with the determined destination device type, the broadcast message including information usable to reroute to an alternate device in accordance with a sending method that is associated with a device type of the alternate device.