Patent ID: 8472988

Claim:
In a 2-way texting system, apparatus for communicating between a subscriber and a second party comprising: a hosted application system, including a host application server, storage, communication apparatus and a hosted application; a plurality of subscriber's 2-way communication devices coupled to the communication apparatus and assigned in the hosted application a unique designator, wherein the unique designator is a secondary telephone number; the hosted application system coupled to receive a message and designated recipient from a message originator's 2-way communication device, wherein the message originator is one of the subscriber and the second party, and wherein the recipient is the other of the subscriber and the second party; and the hosted application converts the message to a designated format, and delivers the message having the designated format and associated with the unique designator, to the recipient's 2-way communication device, whereby the message can be responded to by the recipient using the unique designator, wherein the subscriber may designate in the hosted application an order of contact of the plurality of subscriber's 2-way communication devices.