9 Communication systems, servers, and portable devices that communicate using wireless communication technology; namely, communications systems, servers, and portable devices that communicate using radio, digital, video, packet-switched, or optical communication technology, communication apparatus capable of communicating by wireless communication technology, namely, telephone communication systems, video communication systems, combined telephone and video communication systems, alpha numeric paging communication systems, systems for remote data entry, systems for remote database entry and posting, systems for remote database query, and systems for providing displays of messages and database contents; servers, namely, computers for managing communication links, file servers, network servers, application program servers, network hubs, gateways, routers, concentrators, and relays; wireless communication devices, namely portable telephones, calculators, personal data managers, address books, programmable personal data assistants, identification devices, smart cards, and RFID tags; computer software and firmware used in the operation of communication systems, servers, and portable devices that communicate using wireless communication technology; computer software and firmware used on communication systems, namely, forms, data, objects, scripts, device drivers, communication protocol handlers, application programs and operating systems; computer software and firmware used on servers for performing database management, data format conversion, protocol conversion, message sending and receiving message broadcasting, performing protocols for wireless communication, and performing application program functions; computer software and firmware used on servers to distribute software and firmware to servers and portable devices that communicate using wireless communication technology; computer software and firmware used on portable devices that communicate using wireless communication technology for database management protocol conversion, message sending and receiving, message broadcasting, providing a graphical user interface, providing for data entry and data acquisition, and for presenting information; software for the development of application programs which are used on servers and portable devices that cooperate as a wireless communication system