Donald E Wagstaff

US Patent:

20040146145, Jul 29, 2004

Filed:

Feb 10, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/708141

Inventors:

George KISER - Kannapolis NC, US
Donald Wagstaff - Concord NC, US

Assignee:

NEXT DIMENSION MARKETING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, LLC - Concord NC

International Classification:

H04M011/00

US Classification:

379/088160

Abstract:

In an audible message subscription service, a method includes identifying recipients who have elected to subscribe to audible messages pertaining to one or more predefined subject matters; creating such an audible message; and providing the audile message to the identified recipients. A related method of providing audible messages that pertain to one or more particular subject matters to subscribers who have elected to receive the audible messages includes maintaining subscriber specific records. Each record includes distribution indicators of a respective subscriber, with each distribution indicator corresponding to a particular subject matter for which the respective subscriber has elected to receive audible messages. The method further includes creating an audible message pertaining to a certain one of the particular subject matters; associating a distribution indicator with the audible message that corresponds to the certain particular subject matter, and distributing the audible message to each subscriber whose record includes that distribution indicator.