Patent ID: 8060555

Claim:
A system for managing electronic content, the system comprising: an interface operable to receive information that is to be distributed to a geographic locator address, the received information comprising one or more tags of respective tags that indicate: an action to be triggered by the electronic content, whether a response to the electronic content is required, whether the electronic content comprises a transactional element, and if so, a kind of the transactional element; and an electronic content distribution module operatively coupled to the interface and operable to determine a unique geo-specific electronic address that is uniquely associated with the geographic locator address, to process the received information according to the one or more tags, and to make electronic content, which comprises the processed received information, available through the determined electronic address, wherein at least one of the interface and the electronic content distribution module is implemented using hardware, wherein the electronic content distribution module is operable to determine the electronic address by accessing an address store in which the geographic locator address is uniquely mapped to the electronic address, the system further comprising: an address converter operable to generate unique geo-specific electronic addresses by converting geographic locator addresses into respective unique geo-specific electronic addresses, and to store the generated electronic addresses in the address store, wherein the address converter is further operable to determine whether the geographic locator address to which the received information is to be distributed has an associated electronic address in the address store, and to convert the geographic locator address into the associated electronic address where the geographic locator address does not have an associated electronic address in the address store.