Systems and methods for efficiently distributing alert messages

A method for efficiently distributing electronic alerts, the method comprising:

• providing, from a computing system associated with a service provider to a centralized information provider via a communication network, anonymized data including respective client attributes for each of a plurality of clients, each of the attributes selected from a predefined set;
• receiving, from the centralized information provider, an alert message for a news event, the alert message including (i) a textual component describing the news event and (ii) an indication of clients, selected from among the plurality of clients, for which the news event was determined to have a metric of relevance in excess of a certain threshold using the respective client attributes;
• determining, at the computing system, identities of the clients indicated in the received alert;
• providing a listing of the identified clients via a user interface, including providing a control for selecting or unselecting individual clients for distribution of the alert;
• and
• distributing the alert via the communication network to one or more clients selected via the user interface.

A system for facilitating efficient distribution of electronic alerts to clients via intermediate service providers, the system comprising:

• processing hardware;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable memory storing thereon instructions that, when executed by the processing hardware, cause the system to:
• receive a text describing a news event,
• receive semantic rules for processing text, wherein each of the semantic rules, when satisfied, specifies a correspondence to one or more client attributes,
• apply the semantic rules to the text to determine to which client attributes the text corresponds,
• retrieve, from an electronic database, (i) identifiers for a plurality of clients, (ii) a set of client attributes for each of the plurality of clients, and (iii) for each of the plurality of clients, an identifier of a respective service provider,
• generate, for each of the plurality of clients, a metric of relevance of the news event based on the client attributes of the client and the client attributes to which the text was determined to correspond, and
• transmit, to at least one service provider by the one or more processors, an electronic alert message descriptive of the news event and an indication of a set of clients of the service provider whose metrics of relevance exceed a certain threshold, for distribution to some or all of the set of clients.