Patent ID: 7088692

Claim:
Apparatus for a mobile terminal selectably also operable by a user in a radio communication system to effectuate telephonic communication with a communication station by way of a communication path that includes a radio part, said apparatus comprising: at least one executable block of code forming a recreational application, executable by the user at the mobile terminal pursuant to user interaction therewith, execution of the recreational application forming said executable block of code generating at least an indicia of performance success of the execution by the user of the recreational application forming said executable block of code; a detector coupled to receive indications of the indicia of performance success generated during execution of the recreational application forming said executable block of code, said detector at least for detecting whether the indicia of performance is beyond a selected threshold and for selectively generating a result indication indicative thereof; a formatter coupled to receive the result indication generated by said detector, said formatter for formatting the result indication into a signal transmittable upon the communication path, and a response-message receiver coupled to receive a response-message communicated to the mobile terminal, the response-message comprising a reward.