Automated announcement-and-bulletins system

摘要

The current application is related to communications and, in particular, to an announcement-and-bulletins system that allows for flexible and efficient distribution of announcements and bulletins through many different types of communications media and communications devices. The announcement-and-bulletins system can be managed and maintained from a variety of different types of devices and can distribute information to users through many different types of communications media and user devices.

主权项

1. An announcement-and-bulletins system comprising:
one or more communications receivers, transmitters, and transceivers interconnected to one or more routers, one or more proxy servers, one or more load balancers, one or more application servers, and one or more database servers via a local network that together implement an input processing subsystem, a post-processing subsystem, and a system-services subsystem; and an announcement-and-bulletins component implemented within a routing-and-message-forwarding component of the system-services subsystem that
identifies an incoming announcement-and-bulletins message forwarded to the system-services subsystem by the input processing subsystem, the incoming announcement-and-bulletins message originally sent to the announcement-and-bulletins system from one of various types of user devices, including desktop and mobile computers, cell phones, and landline phones, messages from each of the various types of user devices received by a different type of receiver or transceiver and forwarded to a corresponding receiving component,determines one or more target user devices to which to return a corresponding outgoing announcement-and-bulletins message, andfor each target user device,
generates an appropriate outgoing announcement-and-bulletins message, andforwards the outgoing announcement-and-bulletins message to the post-processing system for transmission to the user device.