Patent ID: 8817955

Claim:
A method for broadcasting a message from a device to recipient devices over a digital voice communication channel, comprising: composing a content of a broadcast message; identifying a first group of recipient devices based on the content, the recipient devices being communicatively connected according to a peer-to-peer protocol that is used to transmit messages as part of a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) conversation; wherein at least a portion of the recipient devices are connected through a communication channel that is used to transmit and receive contextual data packets and conversational data packets between the at least the portion of the recipient devices; wherein the conversational data packets are for conversation data and the contextual data packets are for data other then the conversation data; formatting at least one broadcast message in accordance with profile information of a recipient device from the first group; transmitting the formatted broadcast message to a recipient device from the first group; in response to receiving the broadcast message, the recipient device, automatically sends the broadcast message to another recipient devices from the first group connected according to the peer-to-peer protocol; and receiving a response to the transmitted broadcast message from the recipient device.