Methods and apparatus for initiating wireless messages

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A communications system allows special messages to be transmitted to a wireless device subscriber if certain conditions are met. Identification information authenticating the sender may be sent using an originating device such as a personal computer with a modem. A location information generating device such as the ANI generator in a telephone end-office connected by physical telephone wire (local loop) to the computer generates location information. The identification information and location information are provided to a message platform. The message-platform establishes time of day and compares sender identification information originating device location information and time of day …