Context-sensitive multimedia message service response
View Patent ↗An apparatus and a method for context-sensitive multimedia message service (MMS) response. The provision of a response to a MMS UA originated MMS message (e.g. requesting to send a multimedia message (MM)) that is context-sensitive allows the network operator/service provider to provide value-added and potentially revenue generating content in the response. The content of the response can be context-sensitive based on one or more context parameters. The context parameters can be based on any of the information elements in the MMS UA originated MMS message, on fields in an associated MM, inputs provided by other external systems (e.g., accounting, presence and location information) and combinations thereof.
1. An apparatus for providing value added content, the apparatus comprising:
a multimedia service message handler adapted:
to receive multimedia content from a user agent in a user agent originated multimedia service message and to forward the content to at least one recipient;
to send, in response to the user agent originated multimedia service message, a multimedia message status response to the user agent, wherein the multimedia message status response is a network protocol message which comprises information about the status of the user agent originated multimedia service message;
a reply store having a plurality of reply messages; and
a logic engine adapted:
to determine a context based on one or more context parameters derived from the information elements of the user agent originated multimedia service message;
to select, based on the context, one or more reply messages from the plurality of reply messages;
to include the selected one or more reply messages in the context-sensitive multimedia message status response, to obtain a context-sensitive multimedia message status response that comprises value-added content related to the one or more context parameters; and,
to provide the context-sensitive multimedia message status response to the multimedia service message handler, for sending the multimedia status response message to the user agent.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more context parameters can be derived from one or more information elements in the user agent originated multimedia service message.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of reply messages comprises a plurality of fixed reply messages.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of reply messages comprises a plurality of template reply messages, content data derived from the one or more context parameters can be added to each template reply message to complete a reply message.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 , the logic engine further processes the context-sensitive multimedia message status response to remove duplicate reply messages and to resolve conflicting reply messages.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:
a mediation module interfacing with one or more external systems that provide one or more inputs.
7. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the one or more inputs can be used to derive one or more context parameters and the context determined by the logic element is further based on the one or more context parameters derived from the one or more inputs.
8. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the one or more inputs can include an externally-provided reply message and the logic engine can include the externally-provided reply message in the context-sensitive multimedia message status response.
9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the user agent originated multimedia service message is a request to send a multimedia message.
10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein each of the one or more context parameter can be based on any of:
a sender of the multimedia message;
an intended receiver of the multimedia message;
a keyword contained in the multimedia message;
a message content-type of the multimedia message; and
any combinations thereof.
11. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the one or more context parameters can be derived from one or more fields in the multimedia message.
12. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the user agent originated multimedia service message is any one of the messages:
MM 1 _submit.REQ;
MM 1 _forward.REQ;
MM 1 _mmbox_store.REQ;
MM 1 _mmbox_view.REQ;
MM 1 _mmbox_upload.REQ;
MM 1 _mmbox_delete.REQ; and
MM 1 _delete.REQ;
in accordance with the 3GPP TS 23.140 technical specification.
13. A method for providing value added content, the method comprising:
receiving multimedia content in a user agent originated multimedia service message and forwarding the content to at least one recipient;
in response to the user agent multimedia message:
determining a context based on one or more context parameters, the context parameters being derived from information elements of the user agent originated multimedia message;
selecting one or more reply messages from a plurality of reply messages based on the context;
including the one or more selected reply messages in a multimedia message status response, to obtain a context-sensitive multimedia message status response that comprises value-added content related to the one or more context parameters, wherein the multimedia message status response message is a network protocol message, which comprises information about the status of the user agent originated multimedia service message; and,
sending the context-sensitive multimedia message status response to the user agent.
14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the one or more context parameter can be derived from one or more information elements in the user agent originated multimedia message.
15. The method of claim 13 , wherein the plurality of reply messages comprises a plurality of fixed reply messages.
16. The method of claim 13 , wherein the plurality of reply messages comprises a plurality of template reply messages, content data derived from the one or more context parameters can be added to each template reply message to complete a reply message.
17. The method of claim 13 , further comprising the step of:
processing the context-sensitive multimedia message status response to remove duplicate reply messages and to resolve conflicting reply messages.
18. The method of claim 13 , further comprising the step of:
receiving, from one or more external systems, one or more inputs.
19. The method of claim 18 , further comprising the step of:
deriving one or more context parameters from the one or more inputs; and
wherein the step of determining a context is further based on the one or more context parameters derived from the one or more inputs.
20. The method of claim 18 , wherein the one or more inputs can include an externally-provided reply message and the step of including can further include the externally-provided reply message in the context-sensitive multimedia message status response.
21. The method of claim 13 , wherein the user agent originated message is a request to send a multimedia message.
22. The method of claim 21 , wherein each of the one or more context parameter can be based on any of:
a sender of the multimedia message;
an intended receiver of the multimedia message;
a keyword contained in the multimedia message;
a message content-type of the multimedia message; and
any combinations thereof.
23. The method of claim 21 , wherein each context parameter can be derived from one or more fields in the multimedia message.
24. The method of claim 13 , wherein the user agent originated multimedia service message is any one of the messages:
MM 1 _submit.REQ;
MM 1 _forward.REQ;
MM 1 _mmbox_store.REQ;
MM 1 _mmbox_view.REQ;
MM 1 _mmbox_upload.REQ;
MM 1 _mmbox_delete.REQ; and
MM 1 _delete.REQ;
in accordance with the 3GPP TS 23.140 technical specification.