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US 2014/0287716 A1Published application
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 by a 1st mobile communicator, and sequentially receiving the circulated message by an nth mobile communicator and sending the circulated message to an (n+1)st mobile communicator, n=2, 3, . . . , N−1, wherein each one of the N mobile communicators has a distinct phone number. A system is also described and claimed.
Claims10
1-22. (canceled)
A method of billing subscribers to a communication service, comprising:
- identifying a message that was distributed to members of a pre-defined group of subscribers;
- further identifying all transmissions of the distributed message from one member of the group to another member of the group, as the distributed message traversed all members of the group;
- and
- allocating the total cost of the identified transmissions equally among the members of the group.
1 more element
A billing system for subscribers to a communication service, comprising:
- an activity monitor (i) for identifying a message that was distributed to members of a pre-defined group of subscribers, and (ii) for further identifying all transmissions of the distributed message from one member of the group to another member of the group, as the distributed message traversed all members of the group;
- and
- a billing manager, coupled with said activity monitor, for allocating the total cost of the identified transmissions equally among the members of the group.
27-36. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.