Patent ID: 9628831
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: H04N,H04W

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: identifying, on a transmitting mobile device, multimedia data formatted in accordance with a primary format to be sent to a receiving mobile device that cannot process the multimedia data formatted in the primary format; uploading the multimedia data formatted in accordance with the primary format to a multimedia communication server; responsive to uploading the multimedia data, receiving at the transmitting mobile device from the multimedia communication server a multimedia identifier associated with the multimedia data uploaded to the multimedia communication server; and responsive to the receipt of the multimedia identifier received from the multimedia communication server, transmitting over a synthetic communications network the multimedia identifier received from the multimedia communication server from the transmitting mobile device to the receiving mobile device, wherein the receiving mobile device is identified on the synthetic communications network by a normalized version of a phone number in a phone directory, the normalized number originally provisioned for the receiving mobile device on a voice network and subsequently normalized to a standard format used for synchronizing members of and communication over the synthetic communications network, and without the forwarded multimedia identifier passing through the multimedia communication server, the multimedia identifier to be used by the receiving mobile device to request the multimedia data that is to be transcoded into a secondary format on the multimedia communication server that the receiving mobile device is capable of processing.