Run SMS chat, voting on the Internet

 

Pangolin's Interactive Messaging Unlimited system lets you 1) receive and process incoming SMS text messages, and 2) display them on the Internet, or in public using video or lasers. Step 1 is handled by a program also named IMU, which is described on this page. Step 2 is handled by an SMS text display program such as Video Messaging Unlimited. The text below describes how IMU's output can be posted to an Internet web page.

Output VMU to the Internet

You can run SMS chat sessions and voting on any website, using IMU along with a collection of Java components available (separately) from Pangolin. There is a Java server to install at your website, and a Java client that you embed into web pages (it is automatically downloaded to the viewer's web browser when they access the web page).

It is easy to do web-based SMS promotions using our Java components, with the result being a VMU-like screen that viewers see on a web browser. You can set up different windows and screens using standard web page creation techniques. Our Java components allow you to create web pages with different areas devoted to:

  • graphics (bitmaps such as JPEG and GIF files)

  • text

  • scrolling text such as "Call 212-555-1212 to send your text message"

  • SMS chat

  • SMS voting

  • live or pre-recorded video (media files)

Then, when you run your event, anyone browsing to your web page will see your window and its content -- including the incoming SMS chat messages and votes. In fact you can do simultaneous video output (to a video projector) and web output (to your web page).

Pangolin's Interactive Messaging Unlimited system makes it easy for you to go worldwide with your SMS event or venue! If you have the IMU system, and want to add web capabilities, contact Pangolin for pricing and availability on the Java components.

Example screenshot

The example screenshot (below) shows streaming video in the upper left, a logo at upper middle, and a text "ad" at upper right. The two SMS areas have voting and chat. If this was a live screen being run by VMU, the voting and chat areas would change as new SMS votes and messages come in.
 

 

 
 

 

   
                                  
 
 

 

 
   
Pangolin
A World Leader in Laser and SMS Display Software
9501 Satellite Boulevard, Suite 109, Orlando, FL 32837
(407) 299-2088, fax (407) 299-6066
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