Patent ID: 7729356

Claim:
A telecommunications system for transmitting multimedia messages from a first telecommunications terminal to a second telecommunications terminal via a telecommunications network, comprising: a message server comprising: a multimedia message receiver that receives a multimedia message from the first telecommunications terminal, a multimedia message transmitter that transmits the message to the second telecommunications terminal, a database in which, for each type of a plurality of types of terminals, a set of characteristics of said type of terminal is loaded, a request receiver that receives a request from said second terminal, wherein said request comprises a field containing an indication of the terminal type to which said second terminal belongs, a request extraction element that extracts said field containing an indication of the terminal type, a database extraction element that extracts a set of characteristics of said second terminal from said database by using said indication, and an elaboration element that elaborates a program according to the extracted set of characteristics of said second terminal, wherein said program is downloaded by said second terminal and executed on said second terminal in order to present the message transmitted to the second terminal as defined at the first terminal by restoring the message such that message content of the message is not altered prior to presentation.