Patent ID: 7010790

Claim:
A modular method for the tracing of a multimedia message through a telecommunications network comprising a relay server of multimedia messages, a multimedia message comprising a recipient field and a subject field wherein: the multimedia message is produced automatically by a multimedia message generation module; the generation module inserts information on the automatically produced multimedia message in the subject field of the multimedia message, the multimedia message produced is sent through the telecommunications network, the multimedia message produced and sent is received by the relay server, the relay produces and transmits a first message of notification of reception of the multimedia message to a recipient identified by the recipient field, the first notification message comprising a subject field whose contents comprise at least the information on the subject field of the multimedia message wherein: an interception module intercepts a notification message sent by the relay server following the reception of the multimedia message, and determines which is the recipient of the first notification message and, as a function of the recipient, behaves transparently in the telecommunications network Or sends a second notification message addressed to a multimedia message retrieval module, the second notification message comprising at least one subject field whose contents enable the identification of the multimedia message corresponding to the first message, the retrieval module produces a retrieval request to retrieve the multimedia message corresponding to the second notification message, and the retrieval module sends the retrieval request to the relay server and processes the response of the relay server, the generation module sends to an analysis module first pieces of information on the multimedia messages sent by the generation module, the retrieval module sends to the analysis module second pieces of information on retrieved multimedia messages, and the first and second pieces of information are of the same nature.