Patent ID: 8712450

Claim:
A system comprising: a mobile device comprising a processor operable to: receive a message from a second device via SMS or the Internet; determine whether the message was sent via SMS or the Internet; open a browser function on the mobile device; and display the received message from the second device on the mobile device, wherein: if the message was received via SMS, the message provides selection options and a tag for each of the selection options that forces a return text message via SS7 protocol to be sent from the mobile device that is indicative of an option selected by a user of the mobile device; if the message was received via the Internet, a website provides the selection options and a tag for each of the selection options that forces a return text message via SS7 protocol to be sent from the mobile device that is indicative of an option selected by the user; if the message was received via SMS the message provides an html tag including a first portion that informs the mobile device that the tag is a hyperlink and a second portion that forces the return text message generated from the user of the mobile device to be sent via SS7 protocol; the tag is coded with a telephone number and the tag forces the mobile device to respond to the message with the return text message using the coded telephone number; the return text message response is manually entered by the user into the mobile device; if the message was received via the Internet, the message is provided with a hyperlink without the html tag, the hyperlink directs the mobile device to open a web browser to display the website; the website provides the selection options and the html tag for each of the selection options, the html tag includes the first portion that informs the mobile device that the tag is a hyperlink and the second portion that forces the return text message generated from the user of the mobile device to be sent via SS7 protocol; the tag is coded with the telephone number and the tag forces the mobile device to respond to the message with the return text message using the coded telephone number; and the return text message response is manually entered by the user into the mobile device.