INTERMEDIATED DATA ENTRY IN A SHARED MESSAGE BOARD THROUGH A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE

摘要

A mobile device is employed to be a gateway device to transmit messages between end-users and a shared message board running on a remote sever. The gateway device runs a gateway application to implement the gateway function.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
sending a first message in a first format from a user device to a gateway device having a phone number, the gateway mobile device running a gateway application; converting the first format to a second format, the second format being a suitable format to generate a converted message from the first message; and submitting the converted message to a shared message board (SMB), wherein: converting the first message to the converted message is performed by the gateway application; and the converted message is intermediated as a data entry by an SMB application on the SMB.