Patent ID: 6418308
Filing Date: 2002-07-09
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
In a mobile communication system comprising:a data processing block; a service center having a buffer, configured to communicate with the data processing block; and a plurality of recipient mobile telephones each assigned to at least one user and each comprising a display and a wireless communication block for communicating with at least one base station of a mobile telephone network; a method comprising the steps of: entering a query message to the data processing block; defining a predetermined answering period for answering to the query message; sending the query message from the data processing block over a network to the service center; storing the query message in the buffer of the service center; attempting to send wirelessly the query message from the service center substantially simultaneously to at least two of the recipient mobile telephones; attempting again to send the query message to any of said at least two recipient mobile telephones to which the attempting to send the query message has not succeeded; storing at least temporarily the query message at the recipient mobile telephones; presenting the query message at each recipient mobile telephone to which said query message has been sent; allowing each of the users of each recipient mobile telephone, at a suitable moment for that user, to enter an answer message to the mobile telephone in reply to the query message; sending wirelessly over the mobile telephone network the answer message from the mobile telephone to said service center; forwarding the answer message from said service center to said data processing block; and processing each answer message received within said answering period in a predetermined way in the data processing block.