Patent ID: 8160546

Claim:
A method for rewarding mobile subscribers, comprising: receiving at a gateway an incoming message, the incoming message having been originally initiated as a wireless message by a mobile subscriber; performing the steps of: (a) leveraging information previously supplied by the mobile subscriber, (b) acting upon at least aspects of the incoming message, (c) identifying one or more destination addresses based on (a) the information previously supplied by the mobile subscriber and (b) an indicator in the incoming message, (d) optionally retrieving content, yielding retrieved content, and (e) incrementing the value of at least one reward counter; and generating one or more outgoing messages, the outgoing messages (a) including at least aspects of the incoming message and if applicable the retrieved content and (b) addressed to the one or more destination addresses, wherein the one or more destination addresses respectively correspond to addresses of wireless devices that are different from an address belonging to a wireless device of the mobile subscriber from which the incoming message was originally initiated.