Patent ID: 8620359

Claim:
A method for delivering a Multimedia Message Service (MMS) message, comprising: receiving from a device of an originating mobile subscriber a MMS message that is addressed to a telephone number of a device of a destination mobile subscriber; performing at least one processing step on aspects of the MMS message, including at least querying a routing data repository, yielding at least an MMS support descriptor for the device of the destination mobile subscriber; responsive to the MMS support descriptor indicating the absence of MMS support on the device of the destination mobile subscriber sending at least aspects of the MMS message through an e-mail delivery channel; wherein the routing data repository is populated through one or more of (a) data load and (b) real-time query, wherein the real-time query includes interrogation of the device of the destination mobile subscriber, and wherein the real-time query of the device of the destination mobile subscriber is triggered as a result of the processing step of querying the routing data repository, which is triggered by receipt of the MMS message.