Patent ID: 7328003
Filing Date: 2008-02-05
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for transmitting and receiving a multimedia message in a mobile communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving in the mobile communication system a multimedia message including a plurality of data types from a terminal; storing the received multimedia message while separately storing the data types; producing summarized multimedia information, which includes information on a kind of each of the data types and a number of each kind of data types; transmitting the summarized multimedia information in a signal receipt notification message; upon receiving the signal receipt notification message in a terminal, providing the signal receipt notification message to a user, and transmitting a response message according to a selection by the user; upon receipt of the response message by the mobile communication system, producing and transmitting multimedia information; upon receiving the multimedia information by the terminal, providing the multimedia information to the user, and requesting multimedia data corresponding to a data type selected by the user; and transmitting the corresponding multimedia data from the mobile communication system to the terminal in response to the request from the terminal.