Patent ID: 8121147

Claim:
An apparatus for providing value added content, the apparatus comprising: a multimedia service message handler adapted: to receive multimedia content from a user agent in a user agent originated multimedia service message and to forward the content to at least one recipient; to send, in response to the user agent originated multimedia service message, a multimedia message status response to the user agent, wherein the multimedia message status response is a network protocol message which comprises information about the status of the user agent originated multimedia service message; a reply store having a plurality of reply messages; and a logic engine adapted: to determine a context based on one or more context parameters derived from the information elements of the user agent originated multimedia service message; to select, based on the context, one or more reply messages from the plurality of reply messages; to include the selected one or more reply messages in the context-sensitive multimedia message status response, to obtain a context-sensitive multimedia message status response that comprises value-added content related to the one or more context parameters; and, to provide the context-sensitive multimedia message status response to the multimedia service message handler, for sending the multimedia status response message to the user agent.