Method and system for mobile club opt-in

• US 8,160,625 B1
• Filed: 12/26/2011
• Issued: 04/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NRT Technology Corp.
• Original Assignee: Joingo, LLC (NRT Technology Corp.)
• Inventors: Greer, Russell S., Boyle, Stephen S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gary, Erika
• Application Number:
  US13/337,267
• Time in Patent Office: 113 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

A method and system for qualifying and transmitting an invitation to a mobile phone number to receive digital communications is disclosed herein. A customer profile stored at a CRM database is analyzed and processed to determine if the data capable phone carrier and data capable communication device is associated with a phone number in the customer profile that has opted-in to receive digital communications such as for a mobile marketing campaign.

Claims

1. A method for qualifying and transmitting an invitation to a mobile phone number to receive digital communications, the method comprising:

analyzing an existing profile for a customer, the existing profile stored at a CRM database and analyzed by a digital content delivery engine, the existing profile comprising a customer name, an opt-in decision of the customer, and at least one phone number for the customer;

determining that the customer has opted-in for digital communications;

determining a type, a phone carrier, and an age and location of registration of the at least one phone number;

screening the at least one phone number for association with a data capable phone carrier and a mobile communication device by sending a request for information from the digital content delivery engine to a data capable phone carrier and receiving the information from the digital content delivery engine;

determining at the digital content delivery engine that the at least one phone number is associated with a data capable phone carrier and the mobile communication device; and

transmitting from the digital content delivery engine to the mobile communication device associated with the at least one phone number a SMS communication comprising an invitation to participate in a mobile marketing campaign to be processed on the mobile communication device.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the existing profile for the customer comprises a plurality of phone numbers and the method further comprises receiving a mobile phone carrier and type, and a date and location of registration for each of the plurality of phone numbers, and determining a phone number to transmit a digital communication to based on the type, phone carrier, age and/or registration of each of the plurality of phone numbers.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the mobile marketing campaign is based on the location of the registration of the at least on phone number.