Sybase 365, Inc.

James C Farrow

Robert C Lovell, Jr

Derek Hung Kit Tam

Brian Jeffery Beggerly

William Herschel Dudley

Robert C Lovell

Thilo Rusche

Kirk Tsai

William Chu

William H Duddley

Derek Hung Tam

Architecture and methods to provide an intermediary model for inter-carrier Multi-Media Messaging (MMS) services so that numerous wireless operators can transmit MMS messages between them. The architecture also provides for delivery, at least of notification messages, to those wireless operators who are not part of the overall inter-carrier MMS infrastructure.

Architecture and methods for inter-carrier multi-media messaging

System and methods for providing multimedia message service (MMS) interoperability between an initiating carrier and a destination carrier. A transcoding facility receives an MMS message from an initiating carrier and accesses a number portability database to determine an identity of a destination carrier to which the MMS message is intended to be sent and a carrier profile repository to obtain a carrier profile for the destination carrier, the carrier profile including information regarding an MMS format acceptable to the destination carrier. The transcoding facility determines, based on the carrier profile and a format of the MMS message received from the initiating carrier, whether the format of the MMS message received from the initiating carrier must be modified to be effectively received by the destination carrier and, if so, transcodes the MMS message in accordance with the carrier profile to generate a transcoded MMS message, and thereafter sends one of (i) the MMS message received from the initiating carrier and (ii) the transcoded MMS message to the destination carrier.

System and method for providing configurable, dynamic multimedia message service pre-transcoding

Architecture and methods for inter-carrier Multi-Media Messaging

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Frederick, MD, United States of America

James C Farrow