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Synthetic communication network method and system

  • US 10,136,272 B2
  • Filed: 04/10/2017
  • Issued: 11/20/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • identifying, on a transmitting mobile device, multimedia data, formatted in accordance with a primary format, to be sent to a receiving mobile device that cannot process the multimedia data formatted in the primary format;

    uploading the multimedia data, formatted in accordance with the primary format, to a multimedia communication server;

    receiving at the transmitting mobile device from the multimedia communication server a multimedia identifier associated with the multimedia data uploaded to the multimedia communication server; and

    transmitting the multimedia identifier, over a synthetic communications network, from the transmitting mobile device to the receiving mobile device, the multimedia identifier intended for use by the receiving mobile device to request the download to the receiving mobile device of the multimedia data in a transcoded secondary format that the receiving device can process, wherein the receiving mobile device is identified on the synthetic communications network by a phone number which, before transmission of the multimedia identifier, had been confirmed to be associated with the receiving mobile device as a result of receipt at the receiving mobile device of a verification message transmitted by the receiving mobile device and addressed to the phone number.

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