Distributing notifications to multiple recipients via a broadcast list

摘要

Processing a notification intended for delivery to multiple recipients associated with a broadcast list. Software executes within an alerts service environment to receive a notification addressed to a broadcast alias, determine a list of recipients associated with the broadcast alias to receive the notification, and broadcast the received notification to each recipient in the determined list.

主权项

1. A system for processing a notification, said system comprising:
a computing device configured for receiving from a content provider a data packet that represents a notification and that includes routing information that includes a broadcast alias that is associated with a list of recipients; the computing device further configured for parsing the received data packet; the computing device further configured for validating the content provider identified by the parsed data packet, the validated content provider having been previously digitally signed and certified by some entity; the computing device further configured for accessing the list of recipients associated with the broadcast alias obtained from the parsed data packet; and the computing device further configured for delivering, in response to the receiving, the parsing, the validating, and the accessing, the received data packet to a plurality of recipients indicated by the accessed list of recipients associated with the broadcast alias obtained from the parsed data packet.