We can use three services usually provided byany mobile phone - i.e. Voice, SMS (text), Data.
VOICE - We can use an IVRS(The device candigitise and replay audio at software programmable sampling rates from 8KHz to22KHz. for more details visit -
http://www.niitcrcs.com/content/archiveprojects/projivrs.htm) to Book a movie ticket.
SMS(text)- Or we can send an SMS in a predefined format.
GPRS -Or we can use GPRS to access a mobile pageand book a ticket.
Consideringall these the most feasible and cost effective means is to use SMS. Allphone models support SMS. Its cheaper than making calls. Whereas, GPRS requiresthe network to be sophisticated and the phone must support GPRS.
To book a ticket the user sends a message in apredefined format specifying the show and the number of tickets to a specialnumber. On receiving the SMS, this system must processes it to see if ticketsare available for that particular show and it should give a confirmation codeto the user if the seat is available. The user can use that code to collect histickets.
Technologies:- .NET/Java
Injava, Java Message Service (JMS) can be used to perform messaging operations.
Formore details, visit - http://java.sun.com/products/jms/ , http://www.sun.com/software/products/message_queue/index.xml