Method and apparatus for confirmation of receipt of multimedia messages

摘要

Given that a sender of a multimedia message is generally unclear about the whereabouts of the message if the message has first been stored in a mailbox for the receiver and the receiver has neither been able to be notified about this message in the mailbox nor has downloaded the message, a connection unit associated with the receiver produces a notification which is then sent to a sender connection unit and on to the sender, and the type of notification required by the sender, or other, can be coded in the header of the send request in which the sender sends the multimedia message, wherein the receiver receives individual feedback about the whereabouts of the multimedia message.