| 摘要 |
The multimedia service for mobile telephony makes use of short message service (SMS) in order to notify (through a notification message) to recipient terminals that they can download a multimedia message or to inform the sender of a multimedia message that its message has been correctly received (read report). <??>However, the SMS technology is not well adapted to performing notification in fixed telephony because, up to now, there are relatively few networks and terminals which are equipped with devices authorising SMS. <??>The invention relates to a terminal for fixed telephony comprising: means for receiving and/or transmitting multimedia messages according to the MMS standard, means for receiving from a gateway server, through a conventional channel or line for fixed telephony, an identification number representing the gateway and an alert relating to a multimedia message, and means for establishing, after reception of said identification number, a communication with the gateway server, this communication being according to HTTP over the internet protocol, said communication being for retrieving at a given location in said gateway server, an alert message relating to a MMS message, the given location identification in the gateway server being predetermined in the terminal. <??>So the goal of the invention is to provide a solution for alerting purposes relating to multi media messages in fixed telephony which is independent from short message service (SMS) and which provides maximum compatibility between MMS for mobile telephony and MMS for fixed telephony. "Alerting" means here any information provided to terminals which relates to multimedia messages. Notification and read report messages are such alerting messages.
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