Patent ID: 8577969

Claim:
A method of multimedia messaging comprising: receiving, at a messaging service provider, a message including multimedia content, wherein the message is addressed to a group address associated with a plurality of group members; based on the group address, locating a group profile that is associated with the plurality of group members and that includes information identifying one or more recipient profiles associated with each of the plurality of group members, wherein each recipient profile associated with a group member includes a plurality of network addresses associated with the group member, and wherein each network address of the plurality of network addresses is associated with at least one preferred multimedia data format; based on the information in the group profile, selecting a first recipient profile from the one or more recipient profiles associated with a first group member of the plurality of group members; selecting a first preferred network address from a first plurality of network addresses associated with the first recipient profile; determining a particular preferred multimedia data format based on the at least one first preferred multimedia data format associated with the first preferred network address, wherein the particular preferred multimedia data format is determined based at least partially on a location of the first group member; converting the multimedia content to the particular preferred multimedia data format to produce first converted multimedia content; and sending the message including the first converted multimedia content to the first preferred network address; wherein the group address is associated with the group profile specified by settings associated with a sender of the message.