A METHOD FOR LIMITING THE FORWARDING TIMES OF THE MULTIMEDIA MESSAGE FOR THE MULTIMEDIA MESSAGING SERVICE CENTER MMSC AND A SYSTEM THEREOF

摘要

The present invention provides methods a system and a multimedia messaging service center (MMSC) that limits the times that a multimedia message can be forwarded among several MMSCs, including adding a forward counter field in a multimedia message and assigning an initial value to the forward counter field; updating the value of the forward counter field which keeps track the times that the multimedia message has been forwarded each time the multimedia message being forwarded; and stopping forwarding the multimedia message, if the value of the forward counter field reaches a predefined value. According to the above method and system the times of forwarding a multimedia message by the MMSC can be limited and the resource of the MMS system is greatly saved.