Patent ID: 7289762

Claim:
A system for performing an inquiry wirelessly in a telecommunications network, in which the system comprises: one or more telecommunications operators, each having subscribers with SMS connection; a server having a database of persons and demographic data relating to each person; one or more first communication channels on the Internet, each channel being between the server and one of the one or more telecommunications operators; a workstation for controlling the server via remote operation and for forming questions and storing them in the server; a second communication channel between the workstation and the server; means for transcribing the questions into formed SMS messages in the server and for selecting from the database a set satisfying desired demographic conditions; an SMS inquiry application in the server configured to send the formed SMS messages via the telecommunications network to the persons included in the set, receive replies via the SMS message service for a predetermined length of time, store and interpret each reply and generate a report, and send a next question as a SMS message to the same persons according to a set criterion regarding the received replies.