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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2014
Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Sean Patrick Hoelzle, Collegeville, PA (US);
Nandana T. Maddumakumara, Overland Park, KS (US);
Michael A. Carey, Manassas, VA (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for allowing non-compliant communication devices to receive multimedia messages. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving, from a multimedia messaging system, a content identifier that a destination communication device will use to access content of a multimedia message transferred from a first communication device. The method further provides determining a device identifier for the destination communication device and inserting the device identifier into the content identifier. After inserting the device identifier, the method provides transferring the content identifier to the destination communication device.