Patent ID: 7720492

Claim:
A method for delivering a multimedia message to a telecommunication device configured as a multimedia message sink, comprising: transmitting the multimedia message to a multimedia message service center configured as a multimedia message source for delivering the multimedia message to the telecommunication device; storing the multimedia message at the multimedia message service center; establishing, directly or indirectly, a traffic channel connection to the telecommunication device; sending directly or indirectly, an information message to the telecommunication device by the multimedia message service center informing the telecommunication device about the stored multimedia message, the information message being transmitted via the established traffic channel connection during an information session; terminating the information session upon the transmission of the information message; and keeping the traffic channel connection established to the telecommunication device at least until the telecommunication device has analyzed the received information message and retrieved the stored multimedia message intended for the telecommunication device from the multimedia message service center via the established traffic channel connection during a fetching session; such that both (a) the information message informing the telecommunication device about the stored multimedia message and (b) the multimedia message itself are transmitted to the telecommunication device during the same single traffic channel connection.