Patent ID: 7035875

Claim:
A method of using multimedia information for using a multimedia information system, having a sending terminal storing a plurality of multimedia (MM) information, a receiving terminal for sending or receiving MM information by a user and a management terminal for managing transfer of information, and in which a plurality of multimedia information is at least one of transferred, stored, and used between the sending terminal and the receiving terminal, the method comprising the steps of: requesting an MM information list of a user to the management terminal by the receiving terminal; requesting the sending terminal to create an MM information list by the management terminal when a service class available to the user is identified; gathering container information within the MM information, creating MM information list and sending the MM information list to the receiving terminal by the sending terminal in accordance with the request from the management terminal; receiving and displaying the MM information list, setting searching or editing or processing based on the container information and requesting searching or editing or processing to the management terminal by the receiving terminal; requesting searching or editing or processing and sending specified MM information to the sending terminal by the management terminal when user's condition of use and a transfer condition of the specified MM information are checked and the conditions are satisfied; searching or editing or processing and obtaining the specified MM information from a database and sending the specified MM information to the receiving terminal by the sending terminal in accordance with the request; and receiving the specified MM information by the receiving terminal further comprising the steps of: when the receiving terminal is not launched for a predetermined period of time from a date or time when MM information is transferred, automatically launching the receiving terminal and detecting MM information which has not been manipulated by a user yet; extracting behavior information of the detected MM information; deleting first content information, which is transferred first and left for a first predetermined period of time or more, from the content information of the MM information based on stored days or time of each content information included in the extracted behavior information; and deleting second content information left for a second predetermined period of time longer than the first predetermined period of time from the content information of the MM information.