MMS based photo album publishing system
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- enabling a first user to store a photo in a centrally stored photo archive associated with the first user, by the first user sending the photo in a first MMS message that conforms to an asynchronous messaging protocol for sending person-to-person messages from mobile devices, the first message including only the photo and a predetermined indicator and having a telephone number assigned to the first user as a destination telephone number; and
enabling a second user operating a mobile device on a wireless network to view the photo, by the second user sending from the mobile device a second message conforming to said protocol, the second message including only a predetermined indicator and having the telephone number assigned to the first user as a destination telephone number, in response to which the photo is sent to the mobile device in a third message conforming to said protocol, for output to the second user.
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Abstract
An MMS publishing system comprises a management tool, an authoring tool, a storage facility, a message router, and a rendering server. The management tool authenticates a first user by using a telephone number of the first user as a user ID. The authoring tool allows the first user to associate rich media content with his telephone number. The content is then stored in the storage facility in association with his telephone number. Subsequently, the message router intercepts an MMS message sent from a mobile device over a wireless network when the MMS message includes a predetermined indicator and indicates the telephone number of the first user as a destination. The rendering server then accesses the stored content associated with the telephone number and sends the content to the mobile device, for output to a user of the mobile device.
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6 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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enabling a first user to store a photo in a centrally stored photo archive associated with the first user, by the first user sending the photo in a first MMS message that conforms to an asynchronous messaging protocol for sending person-to-person messages from mobile devices, the first message including only the photo and a predetermined indicator and having a telephone number assigned to the first user as a destination telephone number; and
enabling a second user operating a mobile device on a wireless network to view the photo, by the second user sending from the mobile device a second message conforming to said protocol, the second message including only a predetermined indicator and having the telephone number assigned to the first user as a destination telephone number, in response to which the photo is sent to the mobile device in a third message conforming to said protocol, for output to the second user. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. An apparatus comprising:
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means for responding to a first MMS message sent by a first user, the first MMS message including only a photo and a first predetermined indicator and having a telephone number assigned to the first user as a destination telephone number, by adding the photo to a photo archive associated with the first user; and
means for responding to a second MMS message sent by a second user from a mobile device on a wireless network, the second MMS message including only a second predetermined indicator and having said telephone number assigned to the first user as a destination telephone number, by sending the photo in a third MMS message to the mobile device, for display to the second user.
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4. A method comprising:
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receiving a first MMS message sent by a first user from a first mobile device on a wireless network, the first MMS message including a photo, the first MMS message including a predetermined indicator, the first MMS message having a telephone number assigned to the first user as both a source telephone number and a destination telephone number;
in response to detecting the predetermined indicator in the first MMS message, and based on the source telephone number and the destination telephone number of the first MMS message, adding the photo to a centrally stored photo archive associated with the first user, the photo archive containing zero or more photos associated with the first user;
receiving a second MMS message sent by a second user from a second mobile device on a wireless network, the second MMS message for requesting at least the photo, the second MMS message including the predetermined indicator, the second MMS message having a telephone number assigned to the second user as a source telephone number and having the telephone number assigned to the first user as a destination telephone number; and
in response to the second MMS message, and based on the destination telephone number of the second MMS message and detection of the predetermined indicator in the second MMS message, retrieving the photo from the photo archive associated with the first user and sending the photo to the second mobile device in a third MMS message. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6)
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