Patent ID: 8019823

Claim:
A method for increasing a capacity of a multimedia messaging service system, comprising the steps of: determining, by a message distribution device upon receiving a multimedia message sent from a sender, a first Multimedia Messaging Service Center (MMSC) node to receive the multimedia message, and relaying the multimedia message to a relay of the first MMSC node; delivering, by the relay of the first MMSC node, the multimedia message to a server of the first MMSC node for storage, wherein the server of the first MMSC node is one-to-one corresponding to the relay of the first MMSC node; generating, by the server of the first MMSC node, first identification information comprising a first message identifier and a first transaction identifier, wherein the first transaction identifier comprises number information of the first MMSC node; generating, by the server of the first MMSC node, a notification message comprising the first identification information and a Uniform Resource Locator (URL); sending the notification message to a receiver through the relay of the first MMSC node and the message distribution device, wherein address information of the receiver in the multimedia message is in a network of the first MMSC node; and retrieving, by the receiver, the multimedia message from the server according to the first identification information and the URL in the notification message.