464 results about "Multimedia Messaging Service" patented technology

Devices, systems and methods of wireless delivery of targeted advertisements. A system in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes a modifier to receive a message transmitted by a first wireless communication device and intended for reception by a second wireless communication device, and to selectively add an advertisement to the message prior to its presentation on the second wireless communication device. The message is a Short Message Service (SMS) message, a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) message, an Instant Messaging (IM) message, and an Electronic Mail (Email) message.

A system and method for providing an auto-reply message in response to an incoming message sent from a message sending device and delivered by a unified messaging service as an email encoded with information about the sending device's type and address. The incoming messages may be coming from email, fax, phone, text message, instant message, MMS, TV, or other communication devices. The auto-reply function of this invention is capable of replying to the messages regardless of what type of message sending device is used. The system is preferably implemented by integrating the new technologies of unified messaging service and unified message delivery service with the email tool, and by employing the new design methodology of cloud computing.

The present disclosure relates to a digital device and a method for controlling the same, which displays an application related to a text message, extracts additional information from the application and inserts the extracted additional information to the text message, in order to provide additional information associated with a text message.

In a file structure for a streaming service and a method for providing a streaming service, a file structure includes a header object having basic information about a file and information for an application service, a data object synchronizing multimedia data with temporal information and storing it, and a key index object storing an offset and temporal information of a video block having a key frame in video blocks as a basis on a time axis for random access and reproduction. Accordingly, data can be transmitted quickly by not including unnecessary additional data, an application region can be expanded by including other media file besides a video and an audio files, because a random access and random reproduction by key index information are possible, it is possible to support various reproduction functions such as a fast play, a reverse play and random reproduction, etc.

A multimedia messaging system for sending and receiving multimedia MMS messages. The MMS messages are sent to a MMS server and addressed to the recipient's MSISDN number. MMS server sends a notification to a PAP server that sends the notification as a WAP Push to the recipient mobile device telling the mobile device to retrieve the message. If the recipient mobile device is engaged in an on going or dedicated session with the Internet, the notification is sent to the recipient mobile device during the session. The recipient mobile device then initiates a HTTP GET request to retrieve the multimedia message via the voice or data channel of a PLMN. If the recipient mobile device is not engaged in an on going or dedicated session with the Internet, the notification is sent to the recipient mobile device as a WAP Push using SMS as bearer via the signaling channel of the PLMN. The recipient mobile device then initiates a HTTP GET request to retrieve the multimedia message via the voice or data channel of the PLMN.

A messaging server with enhanced multimedia services (MMS) support enables legacy handsets not enabled with MMS capability to transmit voice messages to MMS enabled handsets where the message is delivered to the latter handset using an MMS communication mode from the messaging server. Also, the messaging server supports the receipt and storage of a multimedia message, and the subsequent delivery of at least portions of the multimedia message to a non-MMS enabled handset by using a communication mode compatible with the non-MMS enabled handset.

Individuals asked to present two forms of picture identification face a problem as individuals usually only have one form of picture ID, that form of identification generally being a state-issued driver's license. The disclosed invention is a system and method for a party, generally a Customer or Patron, to establish proof of identification to another party, generally a Merchant or Agent, via a mobile phone using the mobile communications networks. The invention thereby provides the Merchant or Agent with an additional capability to verify the identity of Customers, including verification of the date of birth of the Customer. In a preferred embodiment, the invention uses the Short Message Service (“SMS”) and Multimedia Messaging Service (“MMS”) features available on mobile phones, or other wireless communication devices, to establish the identity of a Customer after communicating a request for such identification to a government administered identification database system.

A system, apparatus, and method is provided for automatically providing presence information using existing messaging services. Backward messaging such as read reports and delivery reports automatically include presence information from presence server (334) according to user preferences contained within profile database (332). The presence information may be disseminated through any messaging service, such as the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and is also supported by Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) signalling.

Combining speech with existing text wireless Short Message Service (SMS), to create a multimodal SMS service. A user of standard SMS text service is provided with a link within each message that allows adding or retrieval of a voice message associated with an SMS text message. A speech server in the wireless network may be used for recognition of voice commands, rendering of text into speech, and recording or playing back voice recordings. The messages may be retrieved or sent using any wireless handset. Additional services that may be used include message lists, prerecorded messages, integration with voicemail systems, image and video messages, cross-functional applications with Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) and Enhanced Message Services (EMS), and extensions of the combination of voice with text SMS to other computing devices such as PDAs and PCs.

The invention provides a method and system for a network having multimedia messaging service (MMS) capability allowing downloading of one or more multimedia messages (MMs) from a server to a client. The client and / or the server is capable of generating commands for suspending and resuming downloading of the multimedia message. When the client or server generates a command for suspending a current downloading of a multimedia message, the server suspends the downloading of the multimedia message, and a marker is generated for marking the position of suspending the multimedia message. When the client or server generates a command for resuming the suspended downloading of the multimedia message, the server resumes the downloading from the position of suspending marked by the marker. The client when receiving additional subsequent portions of the multimedia message after generating a marker for marking the position of suspending the multimedia message, stores these additional subsequent portions of the multimedia message, generates a new marker pointing to the end of the received additional subsequent portions of the multimedia message, and stores the new marker.

A presence management system for a cellular-based Push-to-Talk (PTT) service. The PTT infrastructure obtains presence-relevant network status information from elements of the cellular network and of the overlying data network such as the home location registers (HLRs) of the mobile switching centers (MSCs) and the Authentication Authorization and Accounting (AAA) element of the data network. Additionally, the presence management system may communicate with other networked resources such as a Short Messaging Service (SMS) center, a Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) server, a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) center, a BREW download server, or others, to obtain information about the activities of subscriber mobile phones that can be used to determine their presence. The presence management system operates in accordance with a set of configurable rules to update presence status and to provide PTT subscribers with presence status updates. Presence updates can be delivered to subscribers via Short Messaging Service (SMS) messaging or via sessions over the data network. The updates can be made in conjunction with or after a PTT call session or attempted session or can be initiated by the presence management system or a subscriber mobile phone independently of call activity.

This invention relates to generating a list of devices in physical proximity of each other and utilizing said list, for example, for sharing of content between a plurality of mobile devices applying individual media items such as address book entries, calendar entries, and / or Short Messaging Services (SMS) or Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) messages.

Methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums are disclosed for creating multimedia messaging service (MMS) messages. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a message in a first format, adapting the message to a MMS message, and sending the MMS message to a user device.

The present invention relates to a system and method of interactive telecommunication text and multimedia messaging whereby an individual user may indicate interest in products or services and receive multimedia content that may facilitate acquiring those products or services. This invention is particularly suited to mobile telecommunication devices.

In a communications network, a network access point address is determined that is currently associated with at least one of a plurality of subscriber mobile devices associated with a subscription to an information service. Content associated with the information service is formatted to provide subscriber content that is configured to be used by the plurality of subscriber mobile devices. The subscriber content is broadcast from a transmitter at the determined network access point address to the at least one subscriber mobile device over a wireless network.

Methods for combining speech with existing text wireless Short Message Service (SMS) to create a multimodal SMS service are provided. A user of standard SMS text service is provided with a link within each message that allows adding or retrieval of a voice message associated with an SMS text message. A speech server in the wireless network may be used for recognition of voice commands, rendering of test into speech, and recording or playing back voice recordings. An automatic and unique identification of each message is created to allow retrieval of the message without manually selecting the message. Additional services include message lists, integration with voicemail systems, image and video messages, cross-functional applications with Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) and Enhanced Message Services (EMS), and extensions of the combination of voice with text SMS to other computing devices such as PDAs and PCs.

Methods, devices, and computer programs for improving the efficiency of multi-user multimedia messaging services are disclosed. A multimedia message is sent from an originator user device to an originator server and further to one or more recipient servers to which recipient user devices as addressed are associated to. The one or more recipient servers execute a multicast delivery for distributing the multimedia message to the recipient user devices and / or an improved reporting of a transmission state of the multimedia message by receiving status messages from the recipient user devices, each status message comprising an indication of an individual transmission state of the multi media message at one of the recipient user devices, aggregating the indications into a report representing the transmission state of the multimedia message, and sending the report to the originator server.

A method and apparatus is disclosed that allows advertisers to define and distribute Short Messaging Service (SMS) and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) coupons to consumers, and for consumers to redeem the received coupons, where such SMS and MMS coupons are used by businesses to promote their products and services to consumers.

This invention relates to generating a list of devices in physical proximity of each other and utilizing said list, for example, for sharing of content between a plurality of mobile devices applying individual media items such as address book entries, calendar entries, and / or Short Messaging Services (SMS) or Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) messages.

Combining speech with existing text wireless Short Message Service (SMS), to create a multimodal SMS service. A user of standard SMS text service is provided with a link within each message that allows adding or retrieval of a voice message associated with an SMS text message. A speech server in the wireless network may be used for recognition of voice commands, rendering of text into speech, and recording or playing back voice recordings. The messages may be retrieved or sent using any wireless handset. Additional services that may be used include message lists, prerecorded messages, integration with voicemail systems, image and video messages, cross-functional applications with Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) and Enhanced Message Services (EMS), and extensions of the combination of voice with text SMS to other computing devices such as PDAs and PCs.

The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for communicating a multimedia messaging service message from a source mobile device to a target mobile device in a telecommunications network. The method comprises receiving a request for a multimedia message and associating the multimedia message to the multimedia messaging service message. The multimedia messaging service message along with the associated multimedia message may be provided for transmission to the target mobile device. For example, an advertisement from a gateway associated with a telecommunication company network may be appended to a multimedia messaging service message as an add-on multimedia messaging service message. An engine may determine content of the appended add-on multimedia messaging service message based on a profile for an end-user and a subscriber profile of an advertising service. A database may store a record of a call to provide information including billing data to one or more concerned parties. In this way, instead of short text messages, using eXtensible Markup Language and Internet protocol, additional multimedia messaging service messages, such as pictures, and / or audio, video streams may be appended with an existing multimedia messaging service message.

Certain embodiments of the invention include methods and apparatuses for linking video information to electronic messages such as electronic mail (email), online chat, web logs (“blogs”), bulletin boards, web page text, Simple Mobile Services (SMS), Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and other electronic message formats. One embodiment provides for embedding links from a video annotation session at a cursor position in an email application. A method for transferring from email to chat and vice versa is disclosed whereby association with video content is maintained.

The invention discloses an automatic test system for an intelligent substation spacing apparatus in the technical field of power systems, comprising: a test system control module and a test terminal connected with the same. In the system, signal authentication and input and output of test data are finished by establishing an input / output signal system at outside of the apparatus; signal pair point test of an apparatus station control layer is finished by a simulated MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service), analog input of the input signal of the apparatus is finished by a Goose / SMV process layer simulator, and behavior result of the apparatus is judged by monitoring a test closed loop network message; and different target test data object test cases are configured, the test data is input via the simulator so as to monitor behavior and response of the apparatus.

An enhanced Multimedia Messaging Service Center (MMS+Center) that manipulates photographs contained in MMS messages sent from camera-enabled mobile phones. The Center receives an original photograph in an MMS message together with location information for the camera-enabled mobile phone. Utilizing the location information, an image associated with the location of the mobile phone is extracted from an image database. A photograph manipulator creates a modified photograph by pasting the extracted image into the original photograph. A preview of the modified photograph is sent to the mobile phone for review. If the preview is approved, the MMS+Center sends the modified photograph to the recipient.

The advanced method and system for handling missed mobile calls represents a progress in the art which allows wireless subscribers to be notified by any addressable, asynchronous delivery mechanism, including Short Message Service (SMS), Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and E-mail among others, when incoming telecommunications are missed as when they are otherwise unreachable (for instance, when the wireless device is turned off or outside coverage area) or busy. The notification would include the Calling Party Number, among other configurable variables, as to enable subscribers to the service to subsequently return the call to the originating party.

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.

The present invention relates to a method, a computer program product and a system for delivering at least one multimedia message from a sender to at least one recipient in a session-based multimedia messaging system. The session-based multimedia messaging system includes a reception logic receiving a send-request corresponding to the multimedia message from the sender. The send-request includes an identification of a session in which the multimedia message is to be stored. The session-based multimedia messaging system includes a session-based storage system for storing the multimedia messages in a session identified in a send-request received by a reception logic. The session-based multimedia messaging system further includes a notification logic for sending a SMS alert of the multimedia message to at least one recipient.