Patent ID: 10291557

Abstract:
An application server (204, 300), a first user equipment, UE, (200, 400), a second UE (206, 500) and corresponding methods for use in an Internet protocol multimedia subsystem, IMS, and for streaming media content between the first UE and the second UE using the Rich Communications Services, RCS, standard. The first UE transmits media content to an application server (204, 300) as an RCS file transfer. The application server receives the media content from the first UE as an RCS file transfer and stores the media content in a memory (306). The first UE compiles a message comprising a media content identifier and transmits the compiled message to the second UE using an RCS text based communication. The second UE receives the RCS text based communication from the first UE and transmits a request for the media content to the application server. The application server receives the request, converts the stored media content into streaming data suitable for streaming to the second UE and streams the streaming data to the second UE as an RCS video share, such that the media content can be viewed at the second UE only while it is being streamed.