Patent ID: 8131274

Claim:
A method for filtration of unwanted wireless telecommunications comprising: monitoring mobile multimedia service (MMS) message traffic associated with roaming subscribers received from a mobile multimedia service-center (MMS-C) in a network that is distinct from the terminating network, said traffic carried via inter-network links; determining whether said MMS message traffic constitutes a wanted or unwanted message, wherein whether said MMS message traffic constitutes an unwanted message is based on one or more of a source address, a destination address, a network element address, a protocol id/type, a data coding scheme, a keyword/content search, a service identifier, a location of an originator and/or a destination; and invoking an action for managing said MMS traffic based on results of said determining, wherein when said MMS message traffic is determined to constitute a wanted message, then performing the additional step of providing said MMS message traffic to the MMS-C in the terminating network via an applicable interface, and wherein when said MMS message traffic is determined to constitute an unwanted message then said action comprises delete, store for later viewing, and notify said MMS-C of a failure or successful delivery.