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US 8,526,988 B2Granted
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.
Claims18
A method for circulating a message to a group of people, comprising:
- storing, by each one of a group of N distinct mobile communicators, an ordered list of the mobile communicators, the list specifying a 1st, 2nd, . . . , Nth one of the mobile communicators;
- receiving, by the 1st mobile communicator, an instruction to sequentially circulate an SMS or MMS message among the group;
- in response to said receiving, automatically sending the message by the 1st mobile communicator to the 2nd mobile communicator;
- and
- sequentially receiving the message by the nth mobile communicator, and automatically sending the message to the (n+1)st mobile communicator, n=2, 3, . . . , N−1.
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A communication system, comprising:
- a group of N distinct mobile communicators;
- and
- circuitry in said mobile communicators, (i) for storing an ordered list specifying a 1st, 2nd, . . . , Nth one of the mobile communicators, (ii) for sending an SMS or MMS message by the 1st mobile communicator to the 2nd mobile communicator, in response to the 1st mobile communicator receiving an instruction to sequentially circulate the message among the group, and (iii) for sequentially receiving the message by the nth mobile communicator, and automatically sending the circulated message to the (n+1)st mobile communicator, n=2, 3, . . . , N−1.
A method of communication, comprising:
- storing an ordered list of distinct mobile communicators, in a destination mobile communicator;
- receiving an SMS or MMS message, by the destination mobile communicator, from a previous destination mobile communicator;
- and
- automatically sending the message to a next destination mobile communicator, where the previous destination mobile communicator, the destination mobile communicator and the next destination mobile communicator are successive members of the list, if the destination mobile communicator is not the last member of the list.
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A destination mobile communicator, comprising:
- a modem for sending and receiving messages;
- a memory for storing a group of identifiers of distinct mobile communicators, and an ordered list thereof;
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- modem controller circuitry communicatively coupled with said modem and with said memory, for controlling said modem (i) to receive an SMS or MMS message from a previous destination mobile communicator, and (ii) to automatically send the message to a next destination mobile communicator, where the previous destination mobile communicator, the destination mobile communicator and the next destination mobile communicator are successive members of the list, if the destination mobile communicator is not the last member of the list.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.