Method and system for circulating messages
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsEyal Bychkov, Uri Ron, Tal Engelstein
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Abstract
A method for circulating a message to a group of people, including sending a circulated message and a distribution list comprising identifiers for a plurality of mobile communicators, by a first mobile communicator, and sequentially receiving the circulated message and a distribution list, by a next mobile communicator, and, if the received distribution list is non-empty, then (i) selecting one of the mobile communicators identified in the distribution list, (ii) modifying the distribution list by removing the identifier of the selected mobile communicator therefrom, and (iii) sending the circulated message and the modified distribution list to the selected mobile communicator.
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1-26. (canceled)
A method for circulating a message to a group of people, comprising:
- sending a circulated message and a distribution list comprising identifiers for a plurality of mobile communicators, by a first mobile communicator;
- and
- sequentially receiving the circulated message and a distribution list, by a next mobile communicator, and, if the received distribution list is non-empty, then (i) selecting one of the mobile communicators identified in the distribution list, (ii) modifying the distribution list by removing the identifier of the selected mobile communicator therefrom, and (iii) sending the circulated message and the modified distribution list to the selected mobile communicator.
A communication system for circulating a message to a group of people, comprising:
- a plurality of mobile communicators;
- and
- circuitry in each of said plurality of mobile communicators, (i) for sending a circulated message and a distribution list comprising identifiers for a plurality of mobile communicators, and (ii) for successively receiving the circulated message and a distribution list, by a next mobile communicator, and, if the received distribution list is non-empty, then (ii.a) selecting one of the mobile communicators identified in the distribution list, (ii.b) modifying the distribution list by removing the identifier of the selected mobile communicator therefrom, and (ii.c) sending the circulated message and the modified distribution list to the selected mobile communicator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.