Patent ID: 7920880

Claim:
A multimedia message service center for delivering a multimedia message to a telecommunication device, the multimedia message service center comprising: a central control unit that controls the operating and function sequences in the multimedia message service center, and to which a storage location for storing the multimedia messages is assigned; a receiving device, for receiving multimedia messages, which receives the multimedia message to be delivered to the telecommunication device, and is connected to the central control unit for the purpose of forwarding said message to it; registration means, assigned to the central control unit, which store the multimedia message that has arrived in the central control unit at the storage location; information message generation means, assigned to the central control unit, which generate an information message concerning the multimedia message that has arrived in the central control unit; and a transmitting and receiving device, for transmitting and receiving messages, which is connected to the central control unit, receives the information message from the central control unit and sends said message directly or indirectly to the telecommunication device in order to inform the telecommunication device about the stored multimedia message, such that during an information session, the transmitting and receiving device sends the information message to the telecommunication device via an established direct or indirect traffic channel connection to the telecommunication device; wherein upon the transmission of the information message the information session is terminated but the traffic channel connection to the telecommunication device remains established at least until the telecommunication device has analyzed the received information message and retrieved the stored multimedia message from the multimedia message service center via the established traffic channel connection during a fetching session; such that both (a) the information message informing the telecommunication device about the stored multimedia message and (b) the multimedia message itself are transmitted to the telecommunication device during the same single traffic channel connection.