iMMS: Interactive multimedia messaging service

Abstract

Multimedia messaging service (MMS) promises a dramatic increase in messaging capabilities for mobile phone users that will enrich their experience. For network operators and content and service providers, it will create a major new source of revenue because it adds features such as color pictures, animations, audio samples, and video clips. However, the current MMS standard provides only a few features that support user interaction, limiting the wide use of value-added messaging services. In this paper, we propose interactive MMS (iMMS) technology that can extend the current MMS standard and enhance interaction capability by embedding eXtensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) technology into MMS Presentation Language. Moreover, an MMS application server (MAS) is presented in our research work. This framework can help service providers to quickly develop and deploy MMS services. We have implemented and tested a prototype that includes an interactive MMS client on a handheld device and an MAS on a Microsoft Windows 2000 server.

Delivering mobile enterprise applications on iMMS framework

“…iMMS [2] is the extension of MMS by adding interactive features. Although MMS supports rich content such as longer texts, color MDM 2005 05 Ayia Napa Cyprus (c) 2005 ACM 1-59593-041-8/05/05....$5.00 Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page.…”

Architectures for Web Services Access from Mobile Devices

“…Besides, the users request best and more complex services. For these reasons appear new standards like EMS (Enhanced Messaging Service) or MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) [9]. Although these technologies are widely used for creating Mobile Messaging Services, SMS is still the dominant messaging technology mainly due to its simplicity and low cell phones requirements.…”