SMS messaging-based layered service and contact method, system and method of conducting business
First Claim
1. A method for purchase of goods and/or services comprising the steps of, (a) a user placing an advertisement through a service provider or vendor, and (b) the service provider or vendor alerting the user to one or more responses to the advertisement by way of an SMS message.
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to a method and system for accommodating a person'"'"'s desires of meeting, locating and/or attracting others for dating, contact or human discourse, or a person'"'"'s desires of acquiring certain objects or collectibles, or news in general, or business, financial, or sports/betting information and the like, or any combination thereof, by a person placing or answering an advertisement on the Internet or other public medium, and being appraised of one or more responses thereto by SMS messaging.
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67 Claims
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1. A method for purchase of goods and/or services comprising the steps of,
(a) a user placing an advertisement through a service provider or vendor, and (b) the service provider or vendor alerting the user to one or more responses to the advertisement by way of an SMS message.
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11. A method for purchase of goods and/or services comprising the steps of,
(a) a user by way of a mobile phone device answering an advertisement placed by a person or a service provider for the sale of goods and/or services with a bid for said goods and/or services; -
(b) the person or service provider responding to the user'"'"'s bid via an SMS message to the user'"'"'s mobile phone device, and consummating the sale or transfer of said goods and/or services to the user, or (c) the person or service provider responding to the user'"'"'s bid via an SMS message to the user'"'"'s mobile phone device informing said user that the bid has been entered and is either (i) the highest bid submitted at the time, or (ii) is the highest bid submitted at the time but not sufficiently high enough to meet a reserve price, or (iii) the user'"'"'s bid is not sufficiently high enough to overcome bids by other users, or (d) the person or service provider responding to the user'"'"'s bid via an SMS message to the user'"'"'s mobile phone device informing said user that a bid previously submitted by the user has been outbid by another user, and inviting and/or soliciting the user to place another bid. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 35, 36, 54, 55)
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14. A method for the sale or transfer of services and/or goods comprising,
(a) a service provider or vendor placing an advertisement in a publically accessible medium inviting a response from a member of the public by an SMS message to the service provider; -
(b) receiving a response from a user to said advertisement by an SMS message from a person'"'"'s mobile phone device querying the advertisement in any way; and
(c) the service provider forwarding an SMS message to said user concerning information relating to the user'"'"'s query. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61)
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21. A method for personal contact, searching and/or acquiring services and/or goods comprising the steps of,
(a) a user creating a personal voice mail message, preferably an IVR voice mail message, with a service provider; -
(b) a person responding to said personal message, and (c) said service provider notifying said user by way of an SMS message to the user'"'"'s mobile phone device of said response. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 43, 44, 45, 62, 63, 64)
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25. A method for the purchase of goods and/or services comprising the steps of,
(a) A service provider or vendor placing an advertisement in a publically accessible medium with contact information; -
(b) a user responding to said advertisement by placing a call or an SMS message to said contact information from a mobile phone device;
(c) the service provider determining that the user is responding to said advertisement from a mobile phone device, and responding and/or answering said call or SMS message by presenting a prompt or tag to the user to;
(i) send an SMS message to a selected code to receive services and/or goods from the service provider, or (ii) to press a coded sequence or character(s) on the user'"'"'s mobile phone device to receive services and/or goods from the service provider. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 46, 47, 48, 65, 66, 67)
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