The
system and method having a specialized
software application on a
personal computer or a PDA /
cell phone that that enables a participant to force an automatic
acknowledgement and a manual response to a text or voice message from other participants within the same network. Each participant's PC or PDA /
cell phone includes a force message alert
software application program for both creating and
processing these forced message alerts. The
system and method enabled by the force message alert
software application program provides the ability to (a) allow an operator to create and transmit a forced message alert from a sender PC or PDA /
cell phone to one or more recipient PCs and PDA / cell phones within the communication network; (b) automatically transmit an
acknowledgement of
receipt to the sender PC or PDA cell phone upon the
receipt of the forced message alert; (c) periodically resend the message to the recipient PCs and PDA / cell phones that have not sent an
acknowledgement; (d) provide an indication of which recipient PCs and PDA / cell phones have acknowledged the forced message alert; (e) provide a manual response
list on the display of the recipient PC and PDA / cell phone's display that can only be cleared by manually transmitting a response; and (f) provide an indication on the sender PC or PDA / cell phone of the status and content the manual responses