METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR UTILIZING SMS WHILE RUNNING AN APPLICATION ON A MOBILE DEVICE CONTROLLING A VIEWER'S PARTICIPATION WITH A BROADCAST

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14930498

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An improved method of and system for participating in SMS-TV contests enables a user to utilize one or more applications to perform desired operations such as using the user interface to efficiently make selections to respond to a question in a contest, downloading SMS short codes, promoting contests within the application, storing a history of SMS-TV programs, enabling an alternate phone number to be submitted, utilizing user identification tags, disconnecting the application to receive an incoming call, verification, contacting a server to send an SMS message on the device's behalf and other operations. Some of the aforementioned operations are performed by the user specifically while others are automatically performed by a server to provide the user with the best service possible.

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WINVIEW INC225 CROSSROADS SUITE 389 CARMEL CA 93923

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Berner, Mark K Santa Clara, US 110 5782
Cibula, Michael San Francisco, US 4 249
Lockton, David B Redwood City, US 128 7782

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