Patent ID: 8971858
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, performed by a sever running a software server application, for sending messages from vendors to respective mobile communication addresses of mobile users, the server application having access to a plurality of mobile user accounts each including mobile address identification information identifying a mobile communication address of a respective mobile user, the plurality of mobile user accounts containing a first mobile user account including first mobile address identification information identifying a first mobile communication address of a first mobile user, the server application having one or more vendor accounts each including vendor identification information identifying a respective vendor and a plurality of vendor messages of the respective vendor, the one or more vendor accounts containing a first vendor account including first vendor identification information identifying a first vendor and a first and second vendor messages of the first vendor, the method comprising: sending, by the server application through the server, the first vendor message of the first vendor to the first mobile communication address of the first mobile user; receiving, by the server application through the server, from the first mobile communication address of the first mobile user, acceptance information indicating the first mobile user's acceptance of the first vendor message of the first vendor; verifying, by the server application through the server, from the received acceptance information that the first mobile user has accepted the first vendor message of the vendor; and sending, by the server application through the server, the second vendor message of the first vendor, to the first mobile communication address of the first mobile user only after the verifying of the first mobile user having accepted the first vendor message of the first vendor.