Future messaging system

摘要

Some embodiments of the invention provide a future messaging system that can be configured to analyze data from one or more data sources in an automated manner in order to detect with a degree of accuracy the occurrence of a possible future event, which may or may not occur in the future. Upon detection of the future event, the future messaging system in some embodiments provides content to a set of one or more recipients. Alternatively, in some embodiments, the future messaging system only provides notification of the detection to the set of recipients. In some embodiments, a user provides the content for release upon the detection of the future event. Along with this content, the user in some embodiments provides a description of the event and a list of one or more recipients for receiving the content upon the detection of the event.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
an event configurator for:
receiving (i) a description of an event and (ii) content for release upon detection of the event; andbased on the received event description, generating an event definition comprising a group of one or more event condition rule sets (ECRS), each ECRS for use in specifying one or more searches for data from a group of data sources to determine whether the data indicates that a set of conditions associated with the ECRS has been met; an event detector for performing an automated process to analyze data searched from a set of data sources in order to detect the event based on the event definition; and a content control manager for releasing the content to a recipient upon detection of the event by the event detector, wherein the event detector detects the event associated with the event definition when a particular number of ECRS' of the group have a particular number of conditions that have been met.