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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2011
Shilei Zhang, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Brandie Roberts, Berkeley, CA (US);
Shilei Zhang, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Brandie Roberts, Berkeley, CA (US);
Cellco Partnership, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system provides Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) to mobile stations through a wireless communication network for person-to-person traffic and traffic to/from an application. The network may include a plurality of Multimedia Messaging Service Centers (MMSCs) coupled to the wireless communication network for MMS communication between two mobile stations, and between a mobile station and an application during call origination mode operations. A second MMSC coupled to the wireless communication network, provides MMS communications between mobile stations and one or more applications during call termination mode operations. In a mobile origination mode operation, the second MMSC concentrates signaling from the first MMSCs and forwards received MMS data, and in a mobile termination mode operations, the second MMSC delivers MMS data to a destination mobile station without forwarding the MMS data to one of the first MMSCs.