Patent ID: 8655967

Claim:
A communications platform having an XML based message-processing platform that enables users to receive electronic messages, the processing platform comprising: at least one server that receives an electronic message addressed to the platform, the electronic message comprising a routing indicator including at least one user identity and one or more message attributes, wherein the one or more message attributes include “folios” which include information folios that at least one of intelligently store, display and synthesize “incoming” electronic messages; and at least one database that stores a user-defined endpoint table, the endpoint table correlating endpoints with sender defined message attributes; wherein the platform: comprises a sender stylesheet and an electronic message stylesheet, wherein the sender stylesheet describes meta-data pertaining to the informant, the electronic message stylesheet describes an activity and an event and XML schemas of the activity and the event, and defines how the activity and the event is transmitted to at least one endpoint; wherein the platform is structured to select a first endpoint from the plurality of endpoints based on the user identity, the message attributes and the user-defined endpoint table; route at least a portion of the electronic message to the first endpoint; and determine whether the user received the at least a portion of the electronic message at the first endpoint; and wherein the platform is structured such that when the platform has determined that the at least a portion of the electronic message has not been received at the first endpoint, the platform selects a second endpoint from the plurality of endpoints based on the user identity, the message attributes and the user-defined endpoint table; and routes a portion of the message to the second endpoint.