Patent ID: 8688151

Claim:
A method of processing a Multimedia Message Service (MMS) message in a mobile communication system, comprising the steps of: transmitting, by a receiving MMS server, a MMS notification message to a receiving terminal, the MMS notification message for notifying a receipt of an MMS message, determining, by the receiving terminal, whether the corresponding MMS message includes media files that can be processed using the MMS notification message, requesting the MMS server to retransmit the MMS notification message to another receiver when the MMS message includes media files that cannot be processed, and requesting a transmission of the MMS message when the MMS message can be processed, and retransmitting, by the receiving MMS server, the MMS notification message to the other receiver when the request of the receiving terminal to retransmit the MMS notification message to the other receiver is received, or transforming and transmitting the media files included in the MMS message when the request to transmit the MMS message is received.