Patent ID: 6947738

Claim:
A method of sending a multimedia message from a sender having an associated sender's server to a mobile device having an associated server serving the mobile device, wherein said sender's server is connected to the server serving the mobile device, said method comprising the steps of: sending a multimedia message from the sender to the sender's server, said multimedia message including an identification number for the mobile device; sending a notification from the sender's server to the mobile device utilizing the mobile device identification number, wherein the notification includes a network address of the sender's server and indicates that the multimedia message is available for retrieval from the sender's server; in response to receipt of the notification, sending from the mobile device to the server serving the mobile device, a request to retrieve the multimedia message from the sender's server, wherein the request includes the network address of the sender's server; retrieving the multimedia message from the sender's server, through the network, by the server serving the mobile device; retrieving by the mobile device, the multimedia message from the server serving the mobile device; and storing the multimedia message in the mobile device.