SMS MESSAGING SYSTEM ACCOMMODATION VARIABLE ENTRIES FOR LOTTERIES

摘要

A SMS lottery gateway server obtains one SMS message from a mobile phone via a base station over a wide area network and parses the one SMS message to identify therein a plurality of game entries including one or more associated picks. A lottery server receives the game entries and associated picks from the SMS lottery gateway server and plays lottery games based thereon. The SMS lottery gateway server can send one SMS message to the mobile phone acknowledging the identified plurality of lottery game entries. The SMS lottery gateway server can parse the SMS message in various ways such as looking for a number and an associated pick, the number indicating a quantity of the plurality of entries.