Patent ID: 9548952
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for transmission-efficient editing of a multimedia message before sending or receiving the multimedia message, the method comprising the steps of: determining by a processor a user data volume of a multimedia message to be sent or received by: summing up all data volumes of each single multimedia message element of said multimedia message; and adding to the summed data volumes a size of a “subject” header field of a header portion of the multimedia message, the “subject” header field indicating a theme of the multimedia message; comparing, by the processor, the determined user data volume of the multimedia message to a user data volume threshold value; and based on a result of the comparison: modifying, by the processor, the multimedia message to produce a modified multimedia message having a reduced data volume compared to the multimedia message; presenting to a user a selection between the multimedia message and the modified multimedia message having the reduced data volume; receiving from the user a selection of the modified multimedia message having the reduced data volume; and communicating, by the processor, the user-selected modified multimedia message having the reduced data volume.