Patent ID: 7949328
Filing Date: 2011-05-24
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A multimedia message interworking system for delivering multimedia messages, the system including at least one sender in a voice/video short messaging service system (VVSS) in communication with message recipients, the sender VVSS comprising: a first multimedia message storage to store one or more first multimedia messages for a first message recipient and one or more second multimedia messages for a second message recipient; a sender routing table to store routing information of at least one recipient operator; and a sender routing logic component for deciding a mode of interworking for routing the one or more first multimedia messages to the first message recipient and the one or more second multimedia messages to the second message recipient based upon the routing information; wherein the first message recipient calls a common multimedia message retrieval number to directly access one of the one or more first multimedia messages stored in the first multimedia message storage and calls a second common multimedia message retrieval number to directly access a different one of the one or more first multimedia messages stored in the first multimedia message storage; wherein the second multimedia message recipient calls the common multimedia message retrieval number to directly access a second multimedia message stored in the first multimedia message storage; wherein the accessed one of the one or more first multimedia messages is identified based on the common multimedia message retrieval number and an identification of the first message recipient and the accessed different one of the one or more first multimedia messages is identified based on the second common multimedia message retrieval number and the identification of the first message recipient; and wherein the second multimedia message is identified based on the common multimedia message retrieval number and an identification of the second message recipient.