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Patent No.:

US 8391901 B1

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Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013

Filed:

Jan. 19, 2011
Applicants:

Janne Aaltonen, Turku, FI;

Timo Ahopelto, Helsinki, FI;

Inventors:

Janne Aaltonen, Turku, FI;

Timo Ahopelto, Helsinki, FI;

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system and method concerned with supporting or implementing functionality to provide efficient delivery of MMS messages to a plurality of recipients. In at least one arrangement the delivery status of already transmitted MMS messages is monitored; for a plurality of messages having a delivery status indicating that the messages are undeliverable to the intended recipient, a new set of recipients is selected and MMS messages transmitted to the new set of recipients. In this way delivery of a desired quota of deliverable MMS messages is effected with greater efficiency than is possible with conventional methods.


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