Method and computing system for games, lottery and/or advertising campaign events using SMS or multimedia messages

Abstract

This invention concerns a method and computing system for game, lottery and advertising campaign events in order to encourage the use of chained SMS or Multimedia messages where the sender, responsible for supporting all associated costs, becomes eligible for winning randomly awarded prizes set according to predetermined rules, using the cellular phone channel, in theory, reaching all cellular phone users, without breaking any mobile network service operator database privacy. It is characterized by: The use of a network computing system, connected to the mobile network operator numbers, who receive cellular phone messages and forward them to a computing system management platform. The messages are then assigned a sequential number by order of arrival to the system, all numbers are logged and the user is notified of this number and invited to forward one or more potential participant phone numbers to a specific phone number; the management platform, using a group of software applications will then send the future participant a message inviting him/her to join the game; if the participant whishes to enter the chain, he/she will have to send a message stating the arrival number of the participant who inserted him/her in the chain as well as one or more cellular phone numbers of prospective participants, it is therefore always possible to identify the origin and all the members of a any given sequence.

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