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Communication service

  • US 9,800,538 B2
  • Filed: 08/02/2001
  • Issued: 10/24/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving, by a transceiver in a mobile device, a multimedia message from a sending device indicating availability of a streamable media content at a network media content element, the multimedia message further including one or more of;

    a network address of the network media content element,information about an access mechanism for accessing the streamable multimedia content from the network media content element,a type of the media content,an encoding scheme used to encode the media content, andan indication of a transport protocol to be used to access the media content from the network media content element,sending a request by the transceiver to the network media content element to retrieve the streamable media content;

    begin downloading by the transceiver, a portion of the streamable media content from the network media content element to the mobile device regardless of whether all portions of the streamable media content is stored in the network media content element, wherein the streamable media content is provided to the network media content element by the sending device; and

    presenting by a processing element, the streamable media content on the mobile device, wherein the streamable media content is provided to the network media content element by a sending device concurrently with the transceiver receiving the multimedia message.

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