Booking method and system
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1. Equipment comprising:
- at least one network server which executes at least one application,wherein the at least one application, when executed on the at least one network server controls electronic communication between a service provider computer having at least two electronic reply addresses and at least one mobile device having a client identifier address over at least one communication network,wherein the at least one application, when executed on the at least one network server selects one of the at least two reply addresses to be a reply address for at least one electronic communication sent to at least one mobile device by the service provider computer, wherein the electronic communication sent to the at least one mobile device comprises the selected reply address,wherein the at least one application, when executed on the at least one network server stores at least two items for each electronic communication sent from the service provider computer, wherein the at least two items are selected from;
content of the electronic communication from the service provider computer;
the client identifier address of the electronic communication from the service provider computer; and
the reply address for replying to the electronic communication from the service provider computer via the at least one communication network, the reply address being selected from the at least two reply addresses,wherein the at least one application, when executed on the at least one network server further stores, for each reply electronic communication received from a client identifier address at any one of the reply addresses, at least the reply address at which the reply electronic communication was received or content of the reply communication, andwherein the at least one application, when executed on the at least one network server further uses the stored information to determine electronic communication to which each received reply electronic communication is a reply.
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Abstract
There is disclosed herein a method and system for communicating over a telecommunications network between a service provider and one or more users, wherein the service provider can have access to multiple distinct addresses in the telecommunications network and each user is identified by an address, more specifically where a first message can be sent over at least a portion of the telecommunications network to a user'"'"'s address and based on a response from the user determining the message to which the response is a reply to.
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1. Equipment comprising:
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at least one network server which executes at least one application, wherein the at least one application, when executed on the at least one network server controls electronic communication between a service provider computer having at least two electronic reply addresses and at least one mobile device having a client identifier address over at least one communication network, wherein the at least one application, when executed on the at least one network server selects one of the at least two reply addresses to be a reply address for at least one electronic communication sent to at least one mobile device by the service provider computer, wherein the electronic communication sent to the at least one mobile device comprises the selected reply address, wherein the at least one application, when executed on the at least one network server stores at least two items for each electronic communication sent from the service provider computer, wherein the at least two items are selected from; content of the electronic communication from the service provider computer; the client identifier address of the electronic communication from the service provider computer; and the reply address for replying to the electronic communication from the service provider computer via the at least one communication network, the reply address being selected from the at least two reply addresses, wherein the at least one application, when executed on the at least one network server further stores, for each reply electronic communication received from a client identifier address at any one of the reply addresses, at least the reply address at which the reply electronic communication was received or content of the reply communication, and wherein the at least one application, when executed on the at least one network server further uses the stored information to determine electronic communication to which each received reply electronic communication is a reply. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. Equipment comprising:
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a storage medium; a processor; and a network interface system for controlling electronic communication between a service provider computer having at least two reply addresses and at least one mobile device having a client identifier address over at least one communication network, wherein the storage medium comprises at least one application whose execution on the processor causes the equipment to; select one of the at least two reply addresses to be a reply address for at least one electronic communication sent to the at least one mobile device by the service provider computer, wherein the electronic communication sent to the at least one mobile device comprises the selected reply address; for each electronic communication sent from the service provider computer, store, in the storage medium, at least two of; content of the electronic communication from the service provider computer; the client identifier address of the electronic communication from the service provider computer; and the reply address for replying to the electronic communication from the service provider computer via the at least one communication network, the reply address being selected from the at least two reply addresses; for each electronic reply communication received from a client identifier address at one of the reply addresses, store in the storage medium at least the reply address at which the electronic reply communication was received or content of the electronic reply communication, and determine the electronic communication to which each received electronic reply communication is a reply based on the information stored in the storage medium. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory recording medium, having encoded thereon a computer readable program executable by a computer, the computer readable program being configured to be executed to implement a method for controlling electronic communication between a service provider computer having at least two reply addresses and a mobile device having a client identifier over at least one communication network coupled to at least one network server, the method comprising:
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selecting one of the at least two reply addresses to be a reply address for at least one electronic communication sent to at least one mobile device by the service provider computer, wherein the electronic communication sent to the at least one mobile device comprises the selected reply address; for each electronic communication sent from the service provider computer, the at least one network server storing at least two of; content of the electronic communication from the service provider computer; the client identifier address of the electronic communication from the service provider computer; and a reply address for replying to the electronic communication from the service provider computer via the at least one communication network, the reply address being selected from the at least two reply addresses; for each electronic reply communication received from a client identifier address at one of the reply addresses, the at least one network server storing at least the reply address at which the electronic reply communication was received or content of the electronic reply communication, and determining the electronic communication to which each received electronic reply communication is a reply based on the stored information. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A method comprising:
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controlling electronic communication between a service provider computer having at least two reply addresses and at least one mobile device having a client identifier address over at least one communication network coupled to at least one server, the method comprising using a programmed data processing equipment to carry out each of the following; selecting one of the at least two reply addresses to be a reply address for at least one electronic communication sent to at least one mobile device by the service provider computer, wherein the electronic communication sent to the at least one mobile device comprises the selected reply address; for each electronic communication sent from the service provider computer, the at least one server storing at least two of; content of the electronic communication from the service provider computer; the client identifier address of the electronic communication from the service provider computer; and the reply address for replying to the electronic communication from the service provider computer via the at least one communication network, the reply address being selected from the at least two reply addresses; for each electronic reply communication received from a client identifier address at any one of the reply addresses, the at least one server storing at least the reply address at which the electronic reply communication was received or content of the electronic reply communication, and determining the electronic communication to which each received electronic reply communication is a reply based on the stored information. - View Dependent Claims (38)
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