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Method of providing multimedia messaging service

  • US 20060128387A1
  • Filed: 01/28/2004
  • Published: 06/15/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2003
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for providing a multimedia messaging service (MMS), comprising the steps of:

  • (a) connecting a personal terminal of a subscriber with an Internet access function to a MMS server, configuring MMS data, and storing the configured MMS data in a relevant subscriber area of a database;

    (b) if certain data are inputted through a sender'"'"'s mobile communication terminal and then transmitted to a recipient'"'"'s mobile communication terminal, reading out, by the MMS server, data from the MMS data previously stored in the subscriber area in step (a), the read data being selected according to whether the recipient'"'"'s mobile communication terminal supports MMS; and

    (c) transferring the MMS data read in step (b) and the data inputted through the sender'"'"'s mobile communication terminal to a mobile communication repeater via a mobile communication company server to allow the both data to be transmitted to the recipient'"'"'s mobile communication terminal;

    wherein step (b) comprises the steps of;

    (b-1) if certain data are requested to be transmitted from the sender'"'"'s mobile communication terminal to the recipient'"'"'s mobile communication terminal, providing the MMS server with sender'"'"'s and recipient'"'"'s phone numbers and information on the recipient'"'"'s mobile communication terminal by the mobile communication company'"'"'s server;

    (b-2) determining, by the MMS server, whether the recipient'"'"'s mobile communication terminal supports MMS, based on information on the recipient'"'"'s mobile communication terminal provided in step (b-1);

    (b-3) if it is determined in step (b-2) that the recipient'"'"'s mobile communication terminal supports MMS, reading out the MMS data stored in the relevant subscriber area of the database for a sender; and

    (b-4) if it is determined in step (b-2) that the recipient'"'"'s mobile communication terminal does not support MMS, reading out only SMS data included in the MMS data stored in the relevant subscriber area of the database for the sender.

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