OVERVIEW

Current communication mechanisms available for mobile user like email, sms, instant messaging and calendar have some inherent problems in it. Most of them suffer from staleness after using it for couple of times. The reason being the complexity to operate them, unable to update/modify once the information is sent, unable to define the life of information, no control over the information when they are pushed off from mobile and no way to recover back the information if the mobile or SIM gets damaged.

AmSoft's Pass-It Notes is a groupware application that allows users to send short, time-oriented messages to multiple users' mobile devices. However, unlike email or SMS, users dictate who can and can not send the Notes to them. Pass-It Notes could be described as the virtual or technological equivalent of a "sticky note" that one might physically leave on your monitor. The purpose of this groupware application is to allow specified users to send reminder and status update messages to your desktop or mobile device. Unlike SMSs, the Pass-It Notes application will take various messages and places them in an easy-to-sort and easy-to-view format. Unlike instant messages, Pass-It Note messages can both arrive on the user's desktop/ mobile device in near real time or can be sent to arrive when the user logs on to the Internet or turns on his phone.

Pass-It Notes are different from email as they are dynamic. Meaning that when a sender updates a message to a user, the user sees only the most current status.

A fundamental differentiation of the Pass-It Notes application is the product's ability to ONLY allow receipt of messages from known users. This means that not only the Notes Sender can dictate who sees and who doesn't see the note but also the receiver can define from whom he would like to get the information. So what we get is a 2-way handshake between Sender and Receiver of notes where both the parties agree to sharing the note.

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KEY FEATURES

• Always Up-To-Date Note: The note once created and shared to recipients can be updated at sender's will. The recipients always get the updated note at their mobile. The notes get automatically refreshed to all the receivers. To alert the recipients for these changes a notification is sent to the recipient for the updates and the notes updated are marked for easy recognition.
• Group distribution of Note: Pass-It Notes allows the sender of the note to send the note to multiple recipients. This is extremely valuable for coordination of group or team activities (friends, sports teams, clubs, or other social groups).
• Exercise Control on Note: The note sender has all the rights on content as well as any subsequent updates on the note. The recipients can only read and respond to these notes.
• Expire out-of-date Note: The Notes that are created can have an expiration date. After this date the note automatically disappears from recipient's Note's Inbox. This way the recipient is prevented from the manually removing the expired notes and cluttering of the Inbox with irrelevant notes.
• Centralized storage & powerful Share and Storage framework for the Note: The notes once created are stored on centralized Identity Server. The service uses Identity Server's powerful XNS based framework to synchronize and share the notes to recipients
• Spam Control for the Recipients of Note: The recipients that are defined for a Note can always decide to receive the Notes from specified senders. For this authorization control, Pass-It Notes uses the Identities authorization mechanism to control the SPAM.

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HIGHLIGHTS

• Control on Messages: Pass-It Notes enables sender to have control on the Note. Sender can update the note, define permissions to display the recipients and can decide when to publish the responses
• Automatic Expiration: Sender and receiver don't need to worry on when note becomes irrelevant and therefore should be removed. Done automatically by the product
• Convenient Communication: Enables New way to communicate for those who rely on up-to-date information
• Notes are Trusted: Notes are sent based on permission from the receiver to sender. Avoids Spam
• "The Insider" / On Top of It: User stays Up-To-Date with more recent information and without confusion with older information getting over-written
• Accessibility / Mobility: Reachable Via Multiple devices like web, desktop and mobile

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