Patent ID: 11868923
Assignee: TAPTEXT LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system for anonymously connecting consumers to advertisers, comprising:
a computing device comprising a processor, a memory, and a plurality of programming instructions stored in the memory and operable on the processor, wherein the plurality of programming instructions, when operating on the processor, cause the computing device to:
upon receipt of a request from a consumer mobile device, send a ready-to-send text message to the consumer mobile device to be displayed thereon, via a data network;
receive the ready-to-send text message from the consumer mobile device;
at substantially the same time, receive metadata from the consumer mobile device comprising at least a phone number associated with the consumer mobile device;
determine an anonymous identity of the user of the consumer mobile device based on the metadata;
compose and send a text message with an embedded call-to-action link comprising a uniform resource locator (URL) to the consumer mobile device; and
upon receipt of a request from the consumer mobile device comprising the URL, send the anonymous identity of the user to a third-party server and redirect the request from the consumer mobile device to the third-party server.