System and method for providing mobile device services using SMS communications
AssigneeGrape Technology Group, Inc.
InventorFaith McGary
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Abstract
An enhanced services platform the platform includes an interface for receiving a communication from a user requesting a desired data. A response module parses the communication and retries the desired data. The platform arranges the desired data into a response message that is sent to the user. A user identifier database module stores information about the users in a user profile that including at least a preferences field and a preference value field identifying relative values of user preferences stored in the preference field, where when a preference having a higher ranking in the preference value field is non available, a second preference having a lower ranking in the preference value field is utilized.
Claims13
An enhanced services platform said platform comprising:
- an interface for receiving a communication from a user requesting a desired data;
- a response module for parsing said communication and retrieving said desired data, said enhanced services platform configured to arrange said desired data into a response message that is sent to said user;
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- a user identifier database module configured to store information about said users in a user profile, said user profile including at least a preferences field and a corresponding preference value field identifying relative values for each of a plurality of user preferences stored in said preference field, wherein said information in said preferences fields is generated by a combination of direct user settings of preferences and derived preferences based on said user's history, said relative values in corresponding preference value field being changeable by direct action by said user, and
- wherein when a preference having a higher ranking in said preference value field is not available, a second preference having a lower ranking in said preference value field is utilized.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.