Method and apparatus for forwarding multimedia message
US9794204B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 14, 2013 |
| Grant date | Oct 17, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 11, 2034 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W4/18
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for forwarding a multimedia message are provided. The method for forwarding a multimedia message includes that a gateway receives a compressed multimedia message from a terminal, the gateway parses the received multimedia message to acquire a compression type parameter which is adopted for the compression at the terminal and is carried in the received multimedia message, the gateway decompresses the received multimedia message according to the compression type parameter to obtain a decompressed multimedia message, and the decompressed multimedia message is sent to an MMS center. According to the technical solution of the present disclosure, the gateway decompresses the received multimedia message and then sends the decompressed multimedia message to the MMS center in a conventional way, and the multimedia message downloaded from the MMS center is sent to the terminal in a compression form, so that the waste of network resources can be avoided effectively and the speed of uploading and downloading the multimedia message is increased.
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