Interactive toy apparatus and method of using same
AssigneeDialware Inc.
InventorsMoshe Cohen, Alan Sege
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Abstract
A toy apparatus and method for interactive communication between a cellphone and a toy apparatus is disclosed. In an embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided, the method including: transmitting by the cellphone at least one signal; receiving by the toy apparatus the at least one signal; analyzing by the toy apparatus the at least one signal; determining by the toy apparatus at least one response to the at least one signal; and producing by the toy apparatus the at least one response.
Claims19
A method for interactive communication between a cellphone and a toy apparatus, said method comprising:
- transmitting by the cellphone at least one signal, wherein said at least one signal includes a coupon code and is selected from email, MMS, SMS, and a ringtone;
- receiving by the toy apparatus the at least one signal;
- analyzing by the toy apparatus the at least one signal;
- determining by the toy apparatus at least one response to the at least one signal, wherein the at least one response includes recording the coupon code;
- producing by the toy apparatus the at least one response;
- accessing by one of an authorized user and a coupon accessing device the coupon code;
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- deleting by one of the authorized user and the coupon accessing device the coupon code from the toy apparatus.
A method for interactive communication with a toy apparatus, the method comprising:
- receiving by the toy apparatus at least one first signal including an embedded code;
- analyzing by the toy apparatus the code;
- determining by the toy apparatus at least one response to the code, said at least one response selected from transmitting the code to another toy apparatus, decoding data from the code and transmitting the decoded data to a person, activating a coupon, transmitting the code to a remote location, processing the code to obtain a coupon, initiating a game, acquiring additional programming, acquiring a service;
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- producing by the toy apparatus at least one response.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.