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

摘要

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.

主权项

1. A method implemented on a computing device of providing an improved user experience when participating in a game, contest or entertainment event, comprising:
a. implementing an application containing a user interface; b. presenting content related to the game, contest or entertainment event, to a user with the application through the user interface; and c. enabling the user to submit a data message response to the game, contest or entertainment event, through interacting with the user interface of the application, wherein the application submits the data message using an data message short code which is updatable and stored as an application accessible resource.