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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
David Mark Troen-Krasnow, Needham, MA (US);
Steven Richard Winnett, Brookline, MA (US);
Assignee:
BBNT Solutions LLC, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/100 ;
Abstract
A system provides messaging services by transmitting messages to groups of message recipients. The system receives a message from a subscriber in an input format and identifies the group of message recipients to receive the message ( ). The system determines one or more output formats for the message for each of the message recipients in the group ( ) and converts the message from the input format to the output format(s) when the output format(s) differ from the input format ( ). The system then transmits the message to the group of message recipients in the output format(s) ( ).