Claims
- 1. A, method for providing product information to a mobile phone user, comprising:
receiving a request message, wherein said request message includes indication of said mobile phone user and a dialed digit string entered by said mobile phone user into a mobile phone, wherein said dialed digit string includes a data code; determining whether said indication of said mobile phone user is associated with one of a plurality of established user accounts; determining, in the event that said indication of said mobile phone user is determined to be associated with one of said plurality of established user accounts, and responsive to said data code, a portion of product information stored in a database; determining, in the event that said indication of said mobile phone user is determined to be associated with one of said plurality of established user accounts, and responsive to information stored in said one of said plurality of said established user accounts, a product information delivery technique associated with said mobile phone user; and delivering, in the event that said indication of said mobile phone user is determined to be associated with one of said plurality of established user accounts, and responsive to said product information delivery technique associated with said mobile phone user, said portion of product information stored in said database using said product information delivery technique associated with said mobile phone user.
- 2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
in the event that said indication of said mobile phone user is determined not to be associated with one of said plurality of established user accounts, establishing a voice communication link to a call center to facilitate establishment of a new user account.
- 3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
providing, responsive to said delivering of said product information to said mobile phone user, a transaction completed signal to said mobile phone user.
- 4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
wherein said product information delivery technique associated with said mobile phone user comprises electronic mail; wherein said one of said plurality of user accounts includes an electronic mail address associated with said mobile phone user; and wherein said delivering of said portion of product information to said mobile phone user includes sending said portion of product information to said electronic mail address.
- 5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
wherein said product information delivery technique associated with said mobile phone user comprises facsimile delivery; wherein said one of said plurality of user accounts includes a facsimile machine number associated with said mobile phone user; and wherein said delivering of said portion of product information to said mobile phone user includes sending said portion of product information to said facsimile machine number.
- 6. The method of claim 1, wherein said indication of said mobile phone user comprises an identification number associated with said mobile phone.
- 7. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining, responsive to a prefix code included in said dialed digit string entered by said mobile phone user into said mobile phone, a service control point to which to send said request message.
- 8. The method of claim 1, wherein said request message is an origination request message.
- 9. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending an error message to said mobile phone user in the event that no product information is associated with said data code.
- 10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
wherein said product information delivery technique associated with said mobile phone user comprises short message service; and wherein said delivering of said portion of product information to said mobile phone user includes sending said portion of product information using short message service.
- 11. A system for providing product information to a mobile phone user, including at least one computer system having at least one processor and associated program storage, said program storage having computer program code stored thereon, said computer program code comprising:
program code for receiving a request message, wherein said request message includes indication of said mobile phone user and a dialed digit string entered by said mobile phone user into a mobile phone, wherein said dialed digit string includes a data code; program code for determining whether said indication of said mobile phone user is associated with one of a plurality of established user accounts; program code for determining, in the event that said indication of said mobile phone user is determined to be associated with one of said plurality of established user accounts, and responsive to said data code, a portion of product information stored in a database; program code for determining, in the event that said indication of said mobile phone user is determined to be associated with one of said plurality of established user. accounts, and responsive to information stored in said one of said plurality of said established user accounts, a product information delivery technique associated with said mobile phone user; and program code for delivering, in the event that said indication of said mobile phone user is determined to be associated with one of said plurality of established user accounts, and responsive to said product information delivery technique associated with said mobile phone user, said portion of product information stored in said database using said product information delivery technique associated with said mobile phone user.
- 12. A system for providing product information to a mobile phone user, comprising:
means for receiving a request message, wherein said request message includes indication of said mobile phone user and a dialed digit string entered by said mobile phone user into a mobile phone, wherein said dialed digit string includes a data code; means for determining whether said indication of said mobile phone user is associated with one of a plurality of established user accounts; means for determining, in the event that said indication of said mobile phone user is determined to be associated with one of said plurality of established user accounts, and responsive to said data code, a portion of product information stored in a database; means for determining, in the event that said indication of said mobile phone user is determined to be associated with one of said plurality of established user accounts, and responsive to information stored in said one of said plurality of said established user accounts, a product information delivery technique associated with said mobile phone user; and means for delivering, in the event that said indication of said mobile phone user is determined to be associated with one of said plurality of established user accounts, and responsive to said product information delivery technique associated with said mobile phone user, said portion of product information stored in said database using said product information delivery technique associated with said mobile phone user.
- 13. A method for providing product information to a telephone user, comprising:
receiving a request message, wherein said request message includes indication of said telephone user and a dialed digit string entered by said telephone user into a telephone, wherein said dialed digit string includes a data code; determining whether said indication of said telephone user is associated with one of a plurality of established user accounts; determining, in the event that said indication of said telephone user is determined to be associated with one of said plurality of established user accounts, and responsive to said data code, a portion of product information stored in a database; determining, in the event that said indication of said telephone user is determined to be associated with one of said plurality of established user accounts, and responsive to information stored in said one of said plurality of said established user accounts, a product information delivery technique associated with said telephone user; and delivering, in the event that said indication of said telephone user is determined to be associated with one of said plurality of established user accounts, and responsive to said product information delivery technique associated with said telephone user, said portion of product information stored in said database using said product information delivery technique associated with said telephone user.
- 14. A method for processing a service request from a telephone user, comprising:
receiving a telephone call from said telephone user; determining, responsive to a dialed digit string associated with said telephone call, that said telephone call is not a conventional voice telephone call, and wherein said dialed digit string includes a data code; determining, responsive to said dialed digit string associated with said telephone call, a processing system to process said service request; forwarding a request message to said processing system, wherein said request message includes an indication of said telephone user and said dialed digit string, wherein said dialed digit string includes a data code; receiving said request message at said processing system; determining, by said processing system, and responsive to said dialed digit string, a requested service; and providing said requested service, by said processing system, to said user without establishment of a voice connection.
- 15. The method of claim 14, wherein said requested service is entry of a vote indicated by a value of said data code.
- 16. The method of claim 14, wherein said requested service is providing information associated with another user responsive to a value of said data code.
- 17. The method of claim 14, wherein said requested service is a purchase of a predetermined product associated with said data code.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) to provisional patent application serial No. 60/367,606, entitled “WIRELESS DATA SYSTEM”, and filed Mar. 26, 2002, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
Provisional Applications (1)
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