Granted Patent B2

US 11,868,923 · App. 18/159,011 · Granted Jan 9, 2024

Inventor: Steve Doumar (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

Assignee: TAPTEXT LLC

G06Q30/0277H04L51/046H04L51/10H04L51/234H04L67/02H04L67/306

Abstract

Claims (16)

1. A system for anonymously connecting consumers to advertisers, comprising:

a computing device comprising a processor, a memory, and a plurality of programming instructions stored in the memory and operable on the processor, wherein the plurality of programming instructions, when operating on the processor, cause the computing device to:

upon receipt of a request from a consumer mobile device, send a ready-to-send text message to the consumer mobile device to be displayed thereon, via a data network;

receive the ready-to-send text message from the consumer mobile device;

at substantially the same time, receive metadata from the consumer mobile device comprising at least a phone number associated with the consumer mobile device;

determine an anonymous identity of the user of the consumer mobile device based on the metadata;

compose and send a text message with an embedded call-to-action link comprising a uniform resource locator (URL) to the consumer mobile device; and

upon receipt of a request from the consumer mobile device comprising the URL, send the anonymous identity of the user to a third-party server and redirect the request from the consumer mobile device to the third-party server.

2. A method for anonymously connecting consumers to advertisers, comprising the steps of:

at a computing device comprising a processor, a memory, and a plurality of programming instructions stored in the memory and operable on the processor:

upon receipt of a request from a consumer mobile device, sending a ready-to-send text message to the consumer mobile device to be displayed thereon, via a data network;

receiving the ready-to-send text message from the consumer mobile device;

at substantially the same time, receiving metadata from the consumer mobile device comprising at least a phone number associated with the consumer mobile device;

determining an anonymous identity of the user of the consumer mobile device based on the metadata;

composing and sending a text message with an embedded call-to-action link comprising a uniform resource locator (URL) to the consumer mobile device; and

upon receipt of a request from the consumer mobile device comprising the URL, sending the anonymous identity of the user to a third-party server and redirect the request from the consumer mobile device to the third-party server.

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