Mobile web system providing interchangable service with a mobile device
The present invention deals with a ‘mobile web system’ that provides access to a mobile service addressing secured communication/interaction among a group of friends, between an individual and a plurality of friends groups, etc. The sender of communications sends a query (audio or textual for example) or a questionnaire to one or more lists of friends/colleagues/experts and receives collected responses from them. The recipients may be registered members of a portal or other individuals whose contact information is known. The mobile service is augmented by an interchangeable service that is available to a user on his/her mobile phone. Using the service, interactive media, questionnaires and multimedia content can be communicated to friends and feedback/responses can be received.
1 . A network system comprising
a mobile device;
a mobile web system,
a group of other devices;
the mobile device providing a service that facilitates communicating with users of the group of other devices and receiving a collected responses from the group of other devices on the mobile device;
the mobile web system also providing the service that facilitates communicating with users of the group of other devices and receiving the collected responses from the group of other devices on the mobile web system;
the mobile web system receiving the collected responses from the group of other devices when the service is accessed by a user of the mobile device; and
the mobile device receiving of the collected responses from the group of other devices when the service is accessed by the user using the mobile web system.
2 . The network system of claim 1 wherein the collected responses are collated and wherein the collected responses are each one of an audio response, a textual response, a multiple choice response, a video response, a graphic response and a combination of these.
3 . The network system of claim 1 wherein the collected responses are received in one or more groups and wherein the collected responses are each one of an audio response, a textual response, a multiple choice response, a video response, a graphic response and a combination of these.
4 . The network system of claim 1 wherein the group of other devices comprises at least one of an additional mobile device, a laptop with a browser, a hand held device, a television, a set-top-box and a computer communicatively coupled to the network.
5 . The network system of claim 1 wherein a first user of the mobile device communicates an audio question form the mobile device to at least one of the users of the group of other devices and receives a collected responses on the mobile device from the at least one of the users.
6 . The network system of claim 1 wherein a first user of the mobile device communicates an audio question from the mobile device to at least one of the users of the group of other devices and receives a collected responses from the at least one of the users on the mobile web system using a first computer communicatively coupled to the mobile web system.
7 . The network system of claim 1 wherein a first user of the mobile device communicates an audio question from the mobile device to at least one of the users of the group of other devices and receives a collected responses from the at least one of the users on the mobile web system employing an appropriate user account on the mobile web system.
8 . The network system of claim 1 wherein the group of other devices comprises other mobile devices and devices capable of communicatively coupling with the mobile web system and interacting with the mobile web system.
9 . The network system of claim 1 wherein the service further comprises creating a questionnaire, communicating the questionnaire with the group of other devices and receiving the responses from users of the group of other devices.
10 . The network system of claim 1 wherein the service further comprises creating an audio query, communicating the audio query to the group of other devices and receiving the responses from users of the group of other devices and reviewing the responses, wherein the responses are each one of an audio response, a textual response, a multiple choice response, a video response, a graphic response and a combination of these.
11 . A network system that supports a plurality of mobile devices, the network system comprising:
a distribution server that interacts with the plurality of mobile devices to communicate a query and to receive a plurality of responses;
a portal server that provides web pages;
the distribution server distributing the query created by a first user and the collecting the plurality of responses;
a portal server facilitating the review of the plurality of responses by the first user; and
the distribution server also facilitating the review of the plurality of responses from one of the plurality of mobile devices by the first user.
12 . The network system of claim 11 wherein the query is created by the first user using one of the portal server and the one of the plurality of mobile devices.
13 . The network system of claim 12 wherein the query is an audio query and wherein the plurality of responses are all audio responses that are collected and presented in one or more groups to the first user.
14 . The network system of claim 12 wherein the query is one of an audio query, a textual query, a video query and a combination of these.
15 . The network system of claim 14 wherein each of the plurality of responses is one of an audio response, a textual response, a multiple choice response, a video response, a graphic response and a combination of these.
16 . The network system of claim 1 1 wherein the portal server facilitates the creation of the query employing the web pages, wherein the web pages are accessed by the first user using a client computer comprising a web browser.
17 . The network system of claim 16 wherein the portal server facilitates the review of the plurality of responses by the first user employing the web pages and the distribution server facilitates the of the plurality of responses by the first user employing one of the plurality of mobile devices.
18 . The network system of claim 12 further comprising:
the portal server comprising a first user account created by the first user;
the portal server facilitating registration by a second user thereby creating a second user account on the portal server;
the portal server comprising a plurality of lists of recipients and facilitating the selection of at least one of the plurality of lists of recipients, by the first user, as a target list for distributing the query;
the target list comprising the second user account and a mobile phone number associated with a third user;
the distribution server facilitating communication of the query to the target list;
the portal server facilitating creation of a second response, among the plurality of responses, by the second user to the query employing the second user account and the query; and
the portal server facilitating creation of a third response, among the plurality of responses, by the third user to the query.
19 . A server for communicating a query and receiving responses, the server comprising:
a plurality of lists of recipients, each of the plurality of lists of recipients represented by at least one of an email address, a phone number, a user account or a user name;
a query creation component that facilitates creation of a the query by a sender wherein the query comprises at least one of an audio question, a textual question, a multiple choice question, a video question and a combination of these;
a query response collection component that collects recipient responses from a plurality of recipients, wherein each of the plurality of recipients is associated with at least one of the plurality of list of recipients; and
a response presentation component that displays received recipient responses from the plurality of recipients to the sender.
20 . The server of claim 19 further comprising:
the a plurality of lists of recipients comprising at least one list retrieved from an external social networking portal.
21 . The server of claim 19 wherein the query is created by a user and communicated to at least one of the lists of recipients, the server further comprising:
a query response creation component that facilitates creation of the recipient responses by the users of the at least one of the lists of recipients, wherein each of the recipient responses comprises at least one of an audio response, a multiple choice response, a textual response, a video response and a combination of these.