Abstract: The present invention provides an Internet based service that enables retailers to create and distribute wireless promotions to customer groups based on specific profile criteria. These promotions are distributed to all types of wireless and mobile devices, as well as the Internet. This Internet service also has the ability to track the reception and acceptance of the promotion from the end user, and providing the retailers with the ability to monitor the promotion activity to determine if is has been received and executed. The present invention provides a method, computer program and system for simulating the distribution of a promotion that includes accessing target subscriber information for the promotion, selecting one or more subscribers to receive the promotion based on the target subscriber information and subscriber information associated with each subscriber, calculating one or more statistics regarding the selected subscribers, and providing the one or more statistics to a user.

Abstract: The present invention provides an Internet based service that enables retailers to create and distribute promotions to customers based on profile criteria. These promotions are distributed to all types of wireless and mobile devices, as well as the Internet. This service also has the ability to track the reception and acceptance of the promotion from the end user, and provide the retailers with the ability to monitor the promotion activity to determine if is has been received and executed. The present invention also provides a method, computer program and system for distributing a promotion by selecting one or more subscribers to receive the promotion based on target subscriber information associated with the promotion and subscriber information associated with each subscriber, obtaining subscriber delivery information for each of the selected subscribers, and distributing the promotion to each of the selected subscribers based on the subscriber delivery information for the selected subscriber.

Abstract: A selective call notification feature in a communication system (100) with a distributed processor (110), a telephonic device (118), and another telephonic device (124) having a telephonic identification code. A selective call notification process at the distributed processor (110) provides for the sending of a signal through the communication system (100) to the telephonic device (118) in response to the other telephonic device (124) being available to receive calls.