Mobile telephone device for receiving and displaying activatable sender-defined responses without user intervention

Abstract

A mobile telephone device for receiving a digital telephone message. The message includes a script code and an activatable sender-defined response including a plurality of options autonomously defined by a sender to select from. The script code, when executed, causes the mobile telephone device to generate and display at least a question and the sender-defined response on a recipient device. The mobile telephone device includes a receiving unit for receiving the message; a notification unit for notifying the recipient device of the arrival of the message; and a response activation unit for automatically displaying the sender-defined response without user intervention and associating the sender-defined response with a user action, wherein the user action is operable to activate the mobile telephone device to send the sender-defined response, based on a user activating the user action, after the mobile telephone device receives the message and before the user opens the message.

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         75 . A mobile telephone device for receiving a digital telephone message, the digital telephone message including an activatable sender-defined response, wherein the sender-defined response includes a plurality of options autonomously defined by a sender to select from, wherein the digital telephone message further includes a script code, wherein the script code, when executed at the mobile telephone device, causes the mobile telephone device to generate and display at least a question and the sender-defined response on a recipient device, the mobile telephone device comprising:
 a receiving unit for receiving the digital telephone message;   a notification unit for notifying the recipient device of the arrival of the message; and   a response activation unit for automatically displaying the sender-defined response without user intervention and associating the sender-defined response with a user action for providing a user input to send the sender-defined response,   wherein the user action is operable to activate the mobile telephone device to send the response, based on a user activating the user action, after the mobile telephone device receives the message and before the user opens the message.   
     
     
         76 . The mobile telephone device of  claim 75 , wherein at least the response activation unit is part of an enhanced native Short Message Service (SMS) client software. 
     
     
         77 . The mobile telephone device of  claim 76 , wherein the enhanced native SMS client software is adapted to parse a plain text message, wherein further the response activation unit displays and associates based, at least in part, on the parsing. 
     
     
         78 . The mobile telephone device of  claim 75 , wherein the user action includes a single key depression. 
     
     
         79 . The mobile telephone device of  claim 75 , further comprising:
 a message display unit for displaying the message, the message display unit displaying the message only after the recipient inputs a form of authentication.   
     
     
         80 . The mobile telephone device of  claim 75 , wherein the response is sent to a third party other than the sender of the message, wherein an identification of a destination of the third party is received with the message.