System for rendering multimedia messages by providing, in a multimedia message, URL for downloadable software to receiving terminal
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1. A method, comprising the steps of:
- evaluating by a multimedia messaging service center whether it is appropriate to adapt originally unsupported components of a multimedia message to meet capabilities of a receiving terminal before providing said multimedia message to said receiving terminal and, if said adaptation is not enough for supporting all of said unsupported components using said capabilities, identifying an internet server location of software needed for rendering unadopted components of said originally unsupported components by said receiving terminal;
providing by a multimedia messaging service center directly to a said receiving terminal a multimedia messaging service signal incorporating both;
a) a further multimedia message signal (FMMS) indicative of said multimedia message and b) a URL signal which provides said internet server location of said software obtainable by the receiving terminal; and
providing the software to the receiving terminal for said rendering of said unadopted components of the multimedia message by the receiving terminal using said URL signal.
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Abstract
This invention describes an adaptation system providing terminal-specific uniform resource locators (URLs) of downloadable software allowing a receiving terminal to render originally unsupported components of multimedia messages. The URLs are provided to the receiving terminal by a multimedia messaging service center (MMSC) which identifies the URLs from its database using information on the receiving terminal capabilities (i.e. based on terminal model and software release) and possibly multipurpose internet mail extension (MIME) types of originally unsupported components in multimedia messages.
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1. A method, comprising the steps of:
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evaluating by a multimedia messaging service center whether it is appropriate to adapt originally unsupported components of a multimedia message to meet capabilities of a receiving terminal before providing said multimedia message to said receiving terminal and, if said adaptation is not enough for supporting all of said unsupported components using said capabilities, identifying an internet server location of software needed for rendering unadopted components of said originally unsupported components by said receiving terminal; providing by a multimedia messaging service center directly to a said receiving terminal a multimedia messaging service signal incorporating both;
a) a further multimedia message signal (FMMS) indicative of said multimedia message and b) a URL signal which provides said internet server location of said software obtainable by the receiving terminal; andproviding the software to the receiving terminal for said rendering of said unadopted components of the multimedia message by the receiving terminal using said URL signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 26, 31)
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19. A system, comprising:
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a multimedia messaging service center, for evaluating whether it is appropriate to adapt originally unsupported components of a multimedia message to meet capabilities of a receiving terminal before providing said multimedia message to said receiving terminal and, if said adaptation is not enough for supporting all of said unsupported components using said capabilities, identifying an internet server location of software needed for rendering unadopted components of said originally unsupported components by said receiving terminal;
for providing a multimedia message service signal incorporating both;
a) a further multimedia message signal (FMMS) indicative of said multimedia message and b) a URL signal which provides said internet server location of said software; anda receiving terminal responsive to the multimedia message service signal sent directly to the receiving terminal, for obtaining said software for said rendering of said unadopted components of the multimedia message. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 32)
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27. A multimedia messaging service center, comprising:
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a database for identifying uniform resource locators (URLs) of terminal-specific downloadable software; means for evaluating whether it is appropriate to adapt originally unsupported components of a multimedia message to meet capabilities of a receiving terminal before providing said multimedia message to said receiving terminal and, if said adaptation is not enough for supporting all of said unsupported components using said capabilities, identifying, using said database an internet server location of software needed for rendering unadopted components of said originally unsupported components by said receiving terminal; and means for providing directly to said to said receiving terminal a multimedia message service signal which incorporates both;
a) a further multimedia message signal (FMMS) indicative of said multimedia message and b) a URL signal, which provides said internet server location of said software for said rendering of said unadopted components of the multimedia message by the receiving terminal.
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28. A receiving terminal, comprising:
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means directly responsive to the multimedia message service signal which incorporates both;
a) a further multimedia message signal (FMMS) indicative of a multimedia message and b) a URL signal which provides an internet server location of software obtainable by the receiving terminal; andmeans for sending a software request signal to the internet server location provided by the URL signal, wherein said software is needed for rendering unadopted components of an originally unsupported components of a multimedia message by said receiving terminal, wherein prior to providing said URL signal, it is evaluated whether it is appropriate to adapt originally unsupported components of a multimedia message to meet capabilities of said receiving terminal before providing said multimedia message to said receiving terminal and, if said adaptation is not enough for supporting all of said unsupported components using said capabilities, said internet server location of said software is identified, wherein said software is needed for said rendering said unadopted components of said originally unsupported components by said receiving terminal.
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29. A method, comprising the steps of:
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evaluating whether it is appropriate to adapt originally unsupported components of a multimedia message to meet capabilities of a receiving terminal before providing said multimedia message to said receiving terminal and, if said adaptation is not enough for supporting all of said unsupported components using said capabilities, identifying an internet server location of software needed for rendering unadopted components of said originally unsupported components by said receiving terminal; providing directly to said receiving terminal a multimedia messaging service signal incorporating a further multimedia message signal (FMMS) indicative of both;
a) said multimedia message and b) a URL signal which provides said internet server location of said software obtainable by the receiving terminal; andproviding the software to the receiving terminal for said rendering of said unadopted components of the multimedia message by the receiving terminal using said URL signal. - View Dependent Claims (30)
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