A system and method for group management during making-to-machine communication, the method including receiving, by a group server and from a requesting apparatus, a group creation request for a group and that carries at least group type information indicating a group type of the group, checking whether a member type of each member of the group is consistent with the group type carried in the group creation request, determining whether at least one member of the group is unreachable, setting a value of a consistency check flag of the group according to whether any member of the group is unreachable, and returning, to the requesting apparatus, a group creation response comprising information indicating the consistency check flag of the group.

A method for detecting SMS messaging service interruptions by classifying SMS messages as delivered or undelivered based upon the receipt of a successful conversion message within a predetermined time period. A current conversion rate is calculated for each network operator partner and destination network pair and the current conversion rate is compared against a reference conversion rate to identify a decrease in the conversion rate of the SMS messages. If the conversion rate decrease exceeds a predefined value, the channel between the network operator partner and the destination network pair is flagged and subsequent SMS messages are routed to end users via an alternative destination network.

Techniques for consistent reads in a split message store are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a client front-end component of a messaging system operative to receive a messaging client update request from a messaging client on a client device; and provide a message metadata set and a message body set to the messaging client on the client device in response to the messaging client update request; and a message cache component of the messaging system operative to retrieve the message metadata set from a metadata store of the messaging system, the message metadata set associated with a metadata set most-recent sequence identifier for the message metadata set; and retrieve the message body set from a message store of the messaging system, wherein retrieving the message body set from the message store comprises providing the metadata set most-recent sequence identifier for the message metadata set to the message store. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

A system for providing a notification for a plurality of messages is disclosed. The system may include a memory and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to receive the plurality of messages from one or more devices associated with one or more users; identify one or more subjects associated with the plurality of messages; and provide the notification including the plurality of messages to a device associated with a recipient, wherein the plurality of messages are arranged in the notification based on the identified one or more subjects, and wherein the one or more users and the recipient exchange the plurality of messages in a collaborative environment.

A computer-implemented method, a computer program product and a computerized apparatus, the method comprising: receiving a communication message transmitted to a user; automatically generating a summary of at least a part of the communication message, the summary comprising: a sender, an object description, comprising a collection of terms describing a group of communication messages including the at least part of the communication message, and content including a summarization of the at least part of the communication message, wherein the content relates to the object; and generating an audio signal based on the summary, the audio signal adapted to be played to a user, whereby providing a summarized vocal description of the at least part of the communication message.

Instant messaging (IM) entities may be invited to an electronic calendar event using an instant message. Selecting the IM entities as invitees to the event may include dragging and dropping names of the IM entities from a buddy list of an IM application to an event from an electronic calendar application, or vice versa. A method of inviting an entity to a calendar event includes providing a calendar event from a calendar application and recognizing, by the calendar application, an IM entity as an invitee to the event.

A computer-implemented method includes receiving by one or more computer systems, a request from a client system of a consumer for a live, real-time video having specified attributes of a performance embedded in the live, real-time video; searching by the one or more computer systems a database of attributes of performances associated with live, real-time videos; and causing by the one or more computer systems a connection between the client system of the consumer with a system of a provider of a live, real-time video captured performance based on the specified attributes included in the request for the live, real-time video.

Provided is an e-mail relay device including: an e-mail receiving unit that acquires an e-mail to be delivered before the e-mail reaches a transmission destination, the e-mail being transmitted from a transmission source mailer through simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP); a request notification unit that transmits, after the e-mail receiving unit acquires the e-mail to be delivered, a notification e-mail for allowing communication with a predetermined authentication server through IP by using a transmission source e-mail address of the e-mail to be delivered as a destination; a transmission source IP address acquisition unit that acquires, in a case where the transmission source terminal communicates with the predetermined authentication server after the notification e-mail is transmitted, an IP address of a transmission source terminal contained in an IP header of an IP packet transmitted/received during the communication; and a determination unit that determines the reliability of the e-mail to be delivered based on the IP address of the transmission source terminal.

A measure of influence of a sender entity is determined for a message receiving entity based at least in part on an analysis of previous electronic messages sent by the sender entity. An electronic message associated with the sender entity is received. The measure of influence of the sender entity is utilized to determine a security risk associated with the received electronic message.

The disclosure describes systems and methods delivering communications associated with delivery conditions in which the occurrence of the delivery condition is determined by monitoring information received from a plurality of sources via multiple communication channels. The message delivery systems allow messages to be delivered to any Who, What, When, Where from any Who, What, When, Where upon the detection of an occurrence of one or more Who, What, When, Where delivery conditions. A message (which may be any data object including text-based messages, audio-based message such as voicemail or other audio such as music or video-based prerecorded messages) is delivered in accordance with delivery conditions based on any available data, including topical, spatial, temporal, and/or social data. Furthermore, because the systems coordinate delivery of messages via multiple communication channels and through multiple devices, the communication channel for delivery of a message may be dynamically determined based on the delivery conditions.