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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2009
Gregory E. Pounds, San Jose, CA (US);
Chris Koverman, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen Kwo, Milpitas, CA (US);
Jonathan Cho, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shivakumar Jayaraman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gregory E. Pounds, San Jose, CA (US);
Chris Koverman, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen Kwo, Milpitas, CA (US);
Jonathan Cho, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shivakumar Jayaraman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Broadsoft Casabi, LLC, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Abstract
A family center system and method is provided that allows receiving from a registered family member a family message intended for other registered family members and determines, based on a set of rules, to which of other registered family members to push the family message, mode of transport by which to push the family message, and the schedule according to which to push the family message. A technique involving a tile is provided that allows displaying a unified view of information onto a plurality of registered devices, regardless of device platform and/or communications network. The system and method provides a variety of services to registered family members and allows third party application plug-in for offering third party services. The system and method receives a SMS message and stores such message as a family message for subsequent access or family message treatment.