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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2014
Athoc, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Guy Miasnik, Mountain View, CA (US);
Aviv Siegel, San Mateo, CA (US);
Ramon J. Pinero, San Jose, CA (US);
Rakesh Gupta, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
AtHoc, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and a method are disclosed for delivering an alert from a computer system using distributed notification delivery. The method comprises using a computer system to receive an alert initiation request from an alert operator, where the alert initiation request includes metadata of an alert to be delivered. The method extracts the metadata from the alert initiation request and from its persistent storage place and persistently stores the extracted metadata in a first storage place on the computer system. The method further makes an alert initiation request with one or more communication systems based on the extracted metadata of the alert. The method securely delivers the alert initiation request and extracted metadata to one or more communication systems, which store the metadata transiently for the duration of delivering the alert, deliver the alert to multiple alert recipients tracks delivery progress and collect alert responses, reporting these back to the computer system.