Patent ID: 9237427
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of transmitting video messages to a mobile phone, the method comprising: receiving over a network at a message management system a request from a user that a video message be sent to a recipient mobile phone; transmitting an authorization request message to a mobile phone associated with the user, wherein the user needs to provide a user authorization response in order for the video message to be sent to the recipient; at least partly in response to receiving an authorization response from the user, initiating the transmission of the video message to the recipient mobile phone; determining whether the recipient mobile phone is capable of receiving an MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) message; when the recipient mobile phone is capable of receiving an MMS message, having the video message delivered to the recipient mobile phone via an MMS message; and when the recipient mobile phone is not capable of receiving an MMS message, having access to the video message provided to the recipient mobile phone via a SMS (Short Message Service) WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) push message, wherein the SMS WAP push message includes an option of connecting to a specified URL (Uniform Resource Locator) via a recipient mobile phone browser to access the video message.