Patent ID: 7302273

Claim:
A system for providing information to a user of a short message service (SMS) enabled communication device, comprising: an SMS server configured for communicating with an SMS enabled communications device during a first SMS session, said SMS server is configured for receiving one or more requests communicated from a user of said SMS enabled communications device and configured for causing a transmission of at least one of multiple types of response communications in response to receiving each of said one or more requests; wherein each of said multiple types of response communications is a member of a set of types of response communications, said set including at least an SMS type of response communication and an audio type of response communication; wherein said SMS server causes a transmission of said audio type of response communication in response to receiving one or more SMS request communications from said user, said audio type of response communication being a voice type of response communication; and wherein said voice type of response communication is an interactive voice session between said user and said system.