Patent ID: 8107929

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for responding to information requests from users of personal communication devices, the method comprising: (a) a plurality of users aperiodically requesting content from a central host site by sending messages from personal communication devices of the users, to the central host site, the messages including a request for content from the central host site, the request being generated from the personal communication devices via conventional manufacturer supplied internal software instructions stored and running on the personal communication devices, wherein said internal software instructions are not downloaded from an external source, and wherein said internal instructions are neither included nor embedded as content-client software; (b) receiving the messages at the central host site, (c) responding to the messages at said central host site by: (i) validating the message; (ii) parsing the validated message to identify at least a content category and a content type; (iii) retrieving said requested content according to said identified content category and type; (iv) incorporating the retrieved content in a response message, wherein said response message is constructed in a slideshow presentation format comprised of a non-temporal sequence of primary images, each primary image including at least a portion of said retrieved content, (v) transmitting the response message from the central host site to the personal communication device of the user making the request for content, and wherein the sequence of primary images are transmitted for display on said user's personal communication device at an image display rate in the range of substantially one image per second to one image per three seconds, wherein each primary disjoint image of said slideshow presentation is transparently displayed to the user as a plurality of substantially identical underlying video frames at an underlying pre-determined frame rate.