CN114679689A

CN114679689A - Method and device for forwarding multimedia message

Info

Publication number: CN114679689A
Application number: CN202011429861.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 梁斌; 刘毅敏; 刘翔宇; 崔岩; 刘青; 赵阅悦
Original assignee: China United Network Communications Group Co Ltd; China Unicom Online Information Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: China United Network Communications Group Co Ltd; China Unicom Online Information Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-12-09
Filing date: 2020-12-09
Publication date: 2022-06-28
Anticipated expiration: 2040-12-09
Also published as: CN114679689B

Abstract

The embodiment of the application provides a method and a device for forwarding a multimedia message. The method comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps that a management module receives a multimedia message from a sending terminal, the multimedia message is to be sent to a plurality of receiving terminals, and a network operator of the sending terminal is a first network operator; the management module generates a notification message, wherein the notification message comprises a download address of the multimedia message; the management module sends the notification message to a plurality of receiving terminals to notify the plurality of receiving terminals to download the multimedia message based on the download address. Therefore, even if the multimedia message needs to be forwarded across networks, MMSC (multimedia messaging service center) connection among network operators is not needed, and the process of forwarding the multimedia message across networks is greatly simplified. In addition, the multimedia message can be stored in the cloud server, so that the problem that the storage of the multimedia message is limited by the capacity of the MMSC can be avoided.

Description

Method and device for forwarding multimedia message

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for forwarding a multimedia message.

Background

Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) can support various types of services such as text, picture, audio, animation, video, and a combination thereof, and is generally applied to terminal users.

Currently, the cross-network forwarding process of multimedia messages is as follows: when a user of an operator 1 sends a multimedia message to a user of an operator 2, a Multimedia Message Service Center (MMSC) to which a sending-end user belongs needs to store and process the multimedia message, and then the multimedia message is forwarded to an IWGW of the operator 2 through an internet gateway (IWGW) of the operator 1, and then the multimedia message is sent to an MMSC to which a receiving-end user belongs, and then the MMSC sends the multimedia message to a receiving terminal. Thereby enabling cross-network forwarding of multimedia messages between individual users.

If there is a demand for group sending of a certain multimedia message, for example, an enterprise user wants to send a multimedia message to an individual user in an enterprise, once there is cross-network forwarding, it needs to respectively interface with an operator of each receiving end user according to an access rule supported by the operator of each receiving end user, and the access process is complex.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a method and a device for forwarding a multimedia message, so as to simplify a cross-network forwarding process of the multimedia message.

In a first aspect, a method for forwarding a multimedia message includes:

a management module receives a multimedia message from a sending terminal, wherein the multimedia message is a multimedia message to be sent to a plurality of receiving terminals, a network operator of the sending terminal is a first network operator, the management module is a management module of the first network operator deployed in a cloud server, and the network operator of at least one receiving terminal in the plurality of receiving terminals is not the first network operator;

the management module generates a notification message, wherein the notification message comprises a download address of the multimedia message;

and the management module sends the notification message to the receiving terminals to notify the receiving terminals to download the multimedia message based on the download addresses.

Based on the scheme, the multimedia message can be directly issued to the users of different operators by establishing the management module to receive and process the multimedia message, so that the complex processes of respective butt joint between different operators can be simplified, and the efficiency of sending the multimedia message between different operators is improved. The management module can store the multimedia message in the cloud server, so that the storage of the multimedia message is prevented from being limited by the capacity of a Multimedia Messaging Service Center (MMSC), and the upper limit of the capacity of the multimedia message is improved.

Optionally, the download address is a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

Optionally, the method further comprises:

the management module receives receiving terminal information from the sending terminal;

the management module determines a network operator of each of the plurality of terminals according to the received terminal information.

Optionally, the notification message further includes the receiving terminal information.

Optionally, the plurality of receiving terminals include a first receiving terminal, a network operator of the first receiving terminal is the first network operator, and the notification message includes a first notification message for sending to the first receiving terminal;

the management module sends the notification message to the plurality of receiving terminals, including:

the management module sends the first notification message to a first short message gateway so as to send the first notification message to the first receiving terminal through the first short message gateway.

Optionally, the plurality of receiving terminals includes a second receiving terminal, a network operator of the second receiving terminal is a second network operator, and the notification message includes a second notification message for sending to the second receiving terminal; and

the management module generates a notification message, including:

the management module generates the second notification message based on a short message gateway interface protocol corresponding to the second network operator;

and the management module sends the second notification message to a second short message gateway so as to send the second notification message to the second receiving terminal through the second short message gateway.

Optionally, the multimedia message carries a check code of the sending terminal, and the check code is used for authenticating the sending terminal.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a multimedia message forwarding apparatus, which includes a unit configured to implement the multimedia message forwarding method described in any one of the first aspect and the first aspect.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a forwarding apparatus for a multimedia message, including a processor, where the processor is configured to execute the method for forwarding a multimedia message according to any one of the first aspect and the first aspect.

The apparatus may also include a memory to store instructions and data. The memory is coupled to the processor, and the processor, when executing the instructions stored in the memory, may implement the method described in the first aspect above. The apparatus may also include a communication interface for the apparatus to communicate with other devices, which may be, for example, a transceiver, circuit, bus, module, or other type of communication interface.

In a fourth aspect, there is provided a computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions which, when run on a computer, cause the computer to carry out the method recited in any one of the first aspect and the first aspect.

In a fifth aspect, there is provided a computer program product comprising: a computer program (also referred to as code, or instructions), which when executed, causes a computer to perform the method of any of the first aspect and the first aspect.

It should be understood that the second aspect to the fifth aspect of the present application correspond to the technical solutions of the first aspect of the present application, and the beneficial effects achieved by the aspects and the corresponding possible implementations are similar and will not be described again.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a diagram illustrating a method for transmitting a multimedia message according to the prior art;

fig. 2 is a schematic view of an application scenario of a multimedia message forwarding method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a management module and a service acceptance module provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a flowchart of an embodiment of a method for forwarding a multimedia message according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a forwarding apparatus for multimedia messages according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is another schematic block diagram of a forwarding apparatus for multimedia messages according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical solution in the present application will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

For ease of understanding, first, referring to fig. 1, a process of transmitting a multimedia message of a single user in the related art will be briefly described. Fig. 1 is a flow chart of the transmission of a multimedia message. As shown in fig. 1, a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) gateway, a Multimedia Messaging Service Center (MMSC), and an interworking gateway (IWGW) are deployed on both network sides of a network operator 1 and a network operator 2.

Among them, the WAP gateway technically supports the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) specification to support multimedia messaging services. And a data access channel between the MMS user agent and the MMS relay server is established through the WAP gateway, so that the operations of sending, receiving, notifying and the like of multimedia information are supported.

The MMSC can be used to store and process multimedia messages including message input and output, address resolution, notification, reporting, etc.

The IWGW supports interworking between different network operators.

As shown in fig. 1, for convenience of differentiation, a WAP gateway disposed on the side of the network operator 1 is denoted as a WAP gateway #1, an MMSC is denoted as an MMSC #1, and an IWGW is denoted as an IWGW # 1; the WAP gateway deployed on the network operator 2 side is denoted as WAP gateway #2, MMSC is denoted as MMSC #2, and IWGW is denoted as IWGW # 2. The network operator 1 and the network operator 2 are different network operators.

WAP gateway #1 of network operator 1 is connected with MMSC #1, MMSC #1 is connected with IWGW #1, WAP gateway #2 of network operator 2 is connected with MMSC #2, MMSC #2 is connected with IWGW #2, and IWGW #1 of network operator 1 is connected with IWGW #2 of network operator 2.

In the process of sending the multimedia message by the user across the network, the multimedia message is processed and stored mainly based on the MMSC, and then the multimedia message is forwarded to the IWGW of different network operators through the IWGW, so that the forwarding of the multimedia message is realized.

Taking the architecture shown in fig. 1 as an example, assume that terminal a is a subscriber of network operator 1, and terminal B is a subscriber of network operator 2. When a user A sends a multimedia message to a terminal B of a user B through a terminal A, the multimedia message of the terminal A is sent to an MMSC #1 to which the terminal A belongs through a WAP gateway #1, the MMSC #1 can send the multimedia message to an IWGW #1, then the IWGW #1 forwards the multimedia message to an IWGW #2, the IWGW #2 sends the multimedia message to the MMSC #2 to which the terminal B belongs, and the MMSC #2 sends the multimedia message to the terminal B of the user B.

Based on the above description, in the prior art, cross-network transmission of a multimedia message is performed by forwarding through multiple network elements, and cross-network forwarding needs to be performed in compliance with the access rule of the network operator of the receiving terminal. If the multimedia message needs to be sent in a group, for example, an enterprise user sends the multimedia message to user terminals of different network operators, the user needs to respectively interface a plurality of different network operators, follow access rules of the different network operators, have a complex access process, and transcode the multimedia message according to protocols supported by the different network operators, which is time-consuming and labor-consuming.

In view of the above problems, an embodiment of the present application provides a method for forwarding a multimedia message, where a network operator of a sending terminal sends a notification message including a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for downloading the multimedia message to a receiving terminal through a management module, so that the receiving terminal downloads the multimedia message based on the URL, thereby implementing group sending of the multimedia message and avoiding a problem of complicated access process due to the need to interface different network operators respectively; nor is there a need to transcode multimedia messages. In addition, the limited MMSC storage capacity is considered, the multimedia message is stored in the cloud server, real-time capacity expansion can be realized, and the upper limit of the message capacity is greatly improved.

For the convenience of understanding the embodiments of the present application, a scenario applicable to the embodiments of the present application will be first described in detail with reference to fig. 2.

Exemplarily, fig. 2 shows a communication system of a forwarding method of a multimedia message provided by an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 2, the communication system 200 may include a sending terminal 210, a cloud server 220, a short message gateway 231, a short message gateway 232, and a plurality of receiving terminals 241 to 245. Wherein the network operator of at least one of the receiving terminals 241 to 245 is not the network operator of the sending terminal.

For example, the transmitting terminal 210 and the receiving

terminals

241 and 242 shown in the figure may be signed terminals of a first operator, the receiving terminals 243 to 245 may be signed terminals of a second operator, and the first operator and the second operator may be different operators.

It should be understood that transmission and reception are relative and should not constitute any limitation on the type of terminal. The sending terminal and the receiving terminal can be terminal devices of the same type, such as mobile phones, tablets and the like; or may be different types of terminal devices. The embodiments of the present application do not limit this.

It should be understood that fig. 2 is only an example, and shows a short message gateway and a subscription terminal under two different operators. However, this should not be construed as limiting the embodiments of the present application in any way. The number of the operators and the number of the contracted terminals of each operator are not limited in the application.

The cloud server 220 may further include a management module, a multimedia message adapter, and a service acceptance module, where the multimedia message adapter is disposed in the management module, as shown in fig. 3.

Fig. 3 shows a framework diagram of a management module and a service acceptance module. It should be understood that the management module and the service acceptance module shown in fig. 3 may be processing modules deployed in the cloud server by an operator, and are divided into different modules based on different functions. The present application is not limited to the naming of each module, the specific physical form, and the like.

As shown in fig. 3, the management module may be used to implement functions that may be used for key generation, content template auditing, sending content storage, sending report pushing, billing settlement, and so on. Based on different functions, the management module can be further divided into a multimedia message adapter, a key management submodule, a template management submodule, a content storage submodule, a charging settlement submodule, a result counting submodule, a report management submodule and the like.

The multimedia message adapter can be used for receiving the multimedia message and the receiving terminal information from the sending terminal, and can determine the network operator of the receiving terminal according to the receiving terminal information. After the multimedia message adapter determines the network operator of the receiving terminal, the multimedia message adapter can also be used to send the multimedia message to the service acceptance module of the corresponding network operator.

The service acceptance module can be used for storing multimedia messages and providing content downloading service for users of the receiving terminal. Based on different functions, the service acceptance module can be further divided into a multimedia message receiving sub-module, a content storage sub-module, a short message issuing sub-module and the like.

The multimedia message receiving submodule can be used for receiving the multimedia message pushed by the management module. The content storage submodule can be used for storing the received multimedia message in the cloud server. The short message issuing sub-module can be used for issuing the received notification short message to the short message gateway of the corresponding operator. It should be understood that the management module and the service acceptance module provided in the embodiments of the present application include sub-modules, which are only exemplary described with reference to fig. 3, and the management module and the service acceptance module may further include more or less sub-modules with other functions. The embodiment of the present application is not particularly limited to this.

The method for forwarding a multimedia message according to the embodiment of the present application will be described in detail with reference to fig. 4. It should be understood that the method shown in fig. 4 may be applied in architectures such as those shown in fig. 2 and 3.

Fig. 4 is a flowchart of a multimedia message forwarding method according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 4, the method may include the following steps 401 to 410.

In step 401, the management module receives a multimedia message from a sending terminal.

The network operator of the sending terminal may be referred to as a first network operator, and the management module may be a management module deployed by the first network operator on the cloud server. The management module may provide access modes such as a WEB version (WEB) and an Application Programming Interface (API), which are not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

In this embodiment, the multimedia message may be a multimedia message to be sent to a plurality of receiving terminals. The multimedia message is a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) -based multimedia message. The network operator of the sending terminal may be referred to as a first network operator, the management module may be a management module that is deployed by the first network operator on the cloud server, and the network operator of at least one of the plurality of receiving terminals is not the first network operator.

In addition, in order to avoid the illegal user from using the mass sending function of the multimedia message, the sending terminal can also send a check code to the management module, and the check code can be used for checking the sending terminal.

The check code may be carried in the multimedia message, for example, and sent to the management module in step 401, or may be separately sent to the management module before step 401. The embodiments of the present application do not limit this. The management module may execute the following method flow after the verification of the sending terminal is completed and the verification is qualified. The check code generation rule may be, for example: a check code is generated based on one or more of the key, the URL, and the parameter. Wherein, the secret key may be pre-negotiated between the sending terminal and the management module. The parameter may be, for example, an American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) value sorting connection. The parameter value is empty or empty string, and the check code and the specified parameter do not participate in the generation of the check code.

The check code may be generated by encrypting through an existing encryption algorithm, for example, but not limited to, a message digest algorithm (MD 5), a Data Encryption Standard (DES), and the like, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

An example of a check code is given below by way of example:

sign＝MD5(“PORT_SECRET_KEY/api/feedbacka＝100&b＝test”)。

the sign represents a check code, and can be calculated by an MD5 algorithm based on one or more of a private key and parameters, API represents that a sending terminal is a management module accessed through an interface of an API, feedback represents a URL, a-100 & b-test represents a randomly generated parameter, and a plurality of parameters are separated by "&" symbols.

In step 402, the management module receives receiving terminal information from a transmitting terminal.

The receiving terminal information is used to indicate a receiving terminal of the multimedia message, for example, may indicate data that may be used to uniquely identify the receiving terminal, such as a mobile phone number, an enterprise short number, and the like of the receiving terminal of the multimedia message.

In one possible design, the sending terminal may send the receiving terminal information along with the multimedia message. For example, the sending terminal integrates the receiving terminal information and the multimedia message in the same message according to a predefined content template and sends the integrated message. In other words, step 401 and step 402 may be combined into one step.

Of course, the multimedia message and the receiving terminal information may be transmitted separately. In this case, step 401 and step 402 may be performed separately.

Alternatively, the receiving terminal information may not be transmitted. For example, for a certain enterprise user, the receiving terminal of the mass-sent multimedia message may be unchanged for a period of time. The management module may locally store the mass-sending object of the multimedia message of the enterprise user, i.e., the receiving terminal of the multimedia message. The management module, upon receiving the multimedia message, may correspond the multimedia message to its receiving terminal.

In step 403, the management module stores the multimedia message in the cloud server.

The management module can reduce the occupation of the storage space of the MMSC by storing the multimedia message in the cloud server, thereby realizing real-time capacity expansion and greatly improving the upper limit of the message capacity.

In addition, the cloud server can be accessed by devices of different network operators, and is not limited to the same-network terminal or different-network terminals. The receiving terminal can download the multimedia message from the cloud server as long as the receiving terminal acquires the download address.

In step 404, the management module generates a notification message including the download address of the multimedia message.

Illustratively, the download address of the multimedia message may be a URL. The management module generates a notification message for downloading the URL of the multimedia message. It should be understood that the URL is a way to specify the location of information on the web service program of the internet, in other words, the URL is used to indicate the download address of the multimedia message. This should not be construed as limiting the application in any way. This application is not intended to exclude the possibility of the same or similar functions being performed in other ways than those specifically set forth in the prior art or in the future.

The network operator of the plurality of receiving terminals, where at least one receiving terminal may exist, is not the first network operator. In other words, there may be at least one receiving terminal among the plurality of receiving terminals, whose network operator is different from that of the transmitting terminal. In other words, there may be a need for cross-network forwarding of multimedia messages sent by a sending terminal.

Since the short message gateway interface protocols supported by the network operators are different, the management module may generate the notification message based on the network operator of each receiving terminal.

Optionally, the plurality of receiving terminals include a first receiving terminal, a network operator of the first receiving terminal is a first network operator, and the notification message includes a first notification message for sending the sending terminal.

Because the first receiving terminal and the sending terminal are subscription terminals of the same network operator, the first notification message generated by the management module is generated based on the short message gateway interface protocol of the first network operator, and transcoding and other operations are not required.

Optionally, the plurality of receiving terminals include a second receiving terminal, a network operator of the second receiving terminal is a second network operator, and the notification message includes a second notification message for sending the second terminal.

Since the second receiving terminal and the sending terminal are subscription terminals of different network operators, the second notification message generated by the management module is generated based on a short message gateway interface protocol of the second network operator. For example, the management module may first generate a first notification message, and then perform transcoding operation to obtain a second notification message supported by a short message gateway interface protocol of a second network operator.

It will be appreciated that either the first notification message or the second notification message includes a URL for downloading the multimedia message. In other words, the valid information in both is the same.

In a possible implementation manner, the management module may classify the network operators of the receiving terminals according to the mobile phone numbers and the mobile phone number segments of the receiving terminals. For example, network operators of the receiving terminal may be classified into a same network and a different network, and for the same network terminal, a first notification message may be generated; for the different network terminal, a second notification message may be generated.

It should be noted that the figures illustrate only examples, and show steps of the management module generating the first notification message and the second notification message. This should not be construed as limiting the application in any way. The receiving terminals of the multimedia message may be the same network terminals or different network terminals, and in this case, the management module only needs to generate the first notification message or the second notification message.

In addition, the notification message may further include receiving terminal information, so that the short message gateway issues the notification message to the corresponding receiving terminal based on the receiving terminal information.

In step 405, the management module sends a notification message to the plurality of receiving terminals.

As mentioned above, the notification message sent to each receiving terminal may be forwarded to each receiving terminal via the short message gateway of the network operator of each receiving terminal.

In this embodiment, the management module generates the first notification message for the same-network terminal and the different-network terminal, and the management module may send the first notification message and the second notification message to the same-network terminal and the different-network terminal, respectively. Step 405 may include step 4051 where the management module sends a first notification message to the first receiving terminal, and step 4052 where the management module sends a second notification message to the second receiving terminal.

As shown, the first notification message may reach the first receiving terminal via a first short message gateway of the first network operator. The second notification message may reach the second receiving terminal via a second short message gateway of a second network operator. Optionally, the second notification message may arrive via forwarding of the second service accepting module in a process of being sent to the second short message gateway by the management module, and the second service accepting module may acquire and store the receiving terminal information from the second notification message.

It should be understood that the receiving terminal is not limited to the first receiving terminal and the second receiving terminal shown herein, and the different network terminals may belong to different network operators. This is not a limitation of the present application.

In step 406, each receiving terminal sends a download request to the service acceptance module based on the notification message, so as to request to download the multimedia message.

As shown in the figure, step 406 may include step 4061, where the first receiving terminal sends a download request to the first service accepting module based on the first notification message; and step 4062, the second receiving terminal sends a download request to the second service acceptance module based on the second notification message.

Optionally, the download request carries the URL, so that each service acceptance module can obtain the multimedia message from the cloud server based on the URL.

In step 407, the service acceptance module of each network operator obtains the multimedia message from the cloud server.

As shown in the figure, step 407 may include step 4071, in which the first service acceptance module obtains the multimedia message from the cloud server, and step 4072, in which the second service acceptance module obtains the multimedia message from the cloud server.

In step 408, the service acceptance module of each network operator transmits the multimedia message to the receiving terminal.

As shown, step 408 may include step 4081, in which the first service accepting module sends the multimedia message to the first receiving terminal, and step 4082, in which the second service accepting module sends the multimedia message to the second receiving terminal.

It should be understood that the above steps are exemplarily described in connection with the first receiving terminal and the second receiving terminal, but this should not constitute any limitation to the present application. The number of receiving terminals and the number of network operators to which the receiving terminals are subscribed are not limited in the present application.

In order to further understand the receiving situation of the multimedia message, the management module may further execute step 409 to obtain the message sending result.

Illustratively, the message transmission result may include the transmission condition of the notification message and the downloading condition of the multimedia message by the receiving terminal. The management module can respectively obtain the sending condition of the notification message from the short message gateway of the same network (such as the first short message gateway) and the short message gateway of the different network (such as the second short message gateway).

For example, in the sending process of the first notification message, the first notification message may be forwarded to the sending terminal through the first short message gateway, and the first short message gateway may generate a sending result of the first notification message according to a sending condition of the first notification message. In the sending process of the second notification message, the second notification message is forwarded to the second terminal through the second short message gateway, and the second short message gateway generates a sending result of the second notification message according to the sending condition of the second notification message. The management module can respectively acquire the sending condition of the notification message from the first short message gateway and the second short message gateway.

The management module may further obtain the downloading condition of the multimedia message from the receiving terminal from the service acceptance module of the same network (e.g., the first service acceptance module) and the service acceptance module of the different network (e.g., the second service acceptance module).

Illustratively, when the receiving terminal downloads the multimedia message from the cloud, the service acceptance module may monitor the downloading condition of the receiving terminal to the multimedia message.

For example, the management module may obtain, from the first service accepting module, a download condition of the multimedia message by the first receiving terminal. The management module may also obtain, from the second service acceptance module, a download condition of the second receiving terminal to the multimedia message.

In step 410, the management module sends a multimedia message transmission report to the sending terminal, the report indicating the reception of the multimedia message by each receiving terminal.

As shown in the figure, after the management module obtains the sending result of the notification short message and the downloading condition of the multimedia message, the management module may send a multimedia message sending report to the sending terminal.

Alternatively, when the sending terminal receives the notification message and fails to send, or the multimedia message fails to download, the sending terminal may resend the notification message to the receiving terminal that did not successfully download the multimedia message.

Based on the scheme, when the multimedia message is forwarded across networks, each terminal can conveniently acquire the multimedia message by sending the download address to each receiving terminal without being connected through MMSC (multimedia messaging service center) among different network operators, the process of forwarding the multimedia message across networks can be simplified to a certain extent, and the sending efficiency can be greatly improved particularly in the scene of group sending of the multimedia message. The receiving terminal can receive the multimedia message only by downloading, and the operation is convenient.

On the other hand, the multimedia message is stored in the cloud server, and the limited storage space of the MMSC is not needed, so that real-time capacity expansion can be realized, and the upper limit of the message capacity is greatly improved. Therefore, the method can be more suitable for the requirements of richer and richer content and larger capacity of the rich media message in the 4G/5G network.

Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a forwarding apparatus for multimedia messages according to an embodiment of the present application. The apparatus may correspond to the management module in the above method embodiment, and may be configured to implement the function of the management module.

As shown in fig. 5, the apparatus 500 may include: a receiving unit 510, a processing unit 520 and a transmitting unit 530. The receiving unit 510 is configured to receive a multimedia message from a sending terminal, where the multimedia message is a multimedia message to be sent to a plurality of receiving terminals, a network operator of the sending terminal is a first network operator, and the apparatus 500 may be deployed in a cloud server by the first network operator, and a network operator of at least one receiving terminal of the plurality of receiving terminals is not the first network operator. The processing unit 520 may be configured to generate a notification message comprising a download address of the multimedia message. The sending unit 530 may be configured to send the notification message to the plurality of receiving terminals.

Optionally, the download address is a uniform resource locator URL.

Optionally, the receiving unit 510 is further configured to receive receiving terminal information from the sending terminal; the processing unit 520 is further configured to determine a network operator of each of the plurality of terminals according to the receiving terminal information.

the sending unit 530 is further configured to send the first notification message to a first short message gateway, so as to send the first notification message to the first receiving terminal through the first short message gateway.

Optionally, the plurality of receiving terminals include a second receiving terminal, a network operator of the second receiving terminal is a second network operator, and the notification message includes a second notification message for sending to the second receiving terminal;

the processing unit 520 is further configured to generate the second notification message based on a short message gateway interface protocol corresponding to the second network operator;

the sending unit 530 is further configured to send the second notification message to a second short message gateway, so as to send the second notification message to the second receiving terminal through the second short message gateway.

It should be understood that the division of the units in the embodiments of the present application is illustrative, and is only one logical function division, and there may be other division manners in actual implementation. In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present application may be integrated into one processor, may exist alone physically, or may be integrated into one module by two or more units. The integrated module can be realized in a hardware mode, and can also be realized in a software functional module mode.

Fig. 6 is another schematic block diagram of a forwarding apparatus for multimedia messages provided by an embodiment of the present application. The device can be used for realizing the function of forwarding the multimedia message in the method. Wherein the apparatus may be a system-on-a-chip. In the embodiment of the present application, the chip system may be composed of a chip, and may also include a chip and other discrete devices.

As shown in fig. 6, the apparatus 600 may include: at least one processor 610 is configured to implement the function of forwarding the multimedia message in the method provided by the embodiment of the present application. Illustratively, the processor 610 may be configured to generate a notification message containing a uniform resource locator, URL, for downloading the multimedia message. For details, reference is made to the detailed description in the method example, which is not repeated herein.

The apparatus 600 may also include at least one memory 620 for storing program instructions and/or data. The memory 620 is coupled to the processor 610. The coupling in the embodiments of the present application is an indirect coupling or a communication connection between devices, units or modules, and may be an electrical, mechanical or other form for information interaction between the devices, units or modules. The processor 610 may operate in conjunction with the memory 620. The processor 610 may execute program instructions stored in the memory 620. At least one of the at least one memory may be included in the processor.

The apparatus 600 may also include a communication interface 630 for communicating with other devices over a transmission medium, such that the apparatus used in the apparatus 600 may communicate with other devices. Illustratively, the other device may be a second neural network. The communication interface 630 may be, for example, a transceiver, an interface, a bus, a circuit, or a device capable of performing a transceiving function. Processor 610 may utilize communication interface 630 to send and receive data and/or information and to implement the methods performed by the management module described in the embodiments corresponding to fig. 4 or fig. 5.

The specific connection medium among the processor 610, the memory 620 and the communication interface 630 is not limited in the embodiments of the present application. In fig. 6, the processor 610, the memory 620, and the communication interface 630 are connected by a bus 640. The bus 640 is represented by a thick line in fig. 6, and the connection between other components is merely illustrative and not intended to be limiting. The bus may be divided into an address bus, a data bus, a control bus, etc. For ease of illustration, only one thick line is shown in FIG. 6, but that does not indicate only one bus or one type of bus.

The application also provides a multimedia message forwarding system, which comprises the multimedia message forwarding device.

The present application further provides a computer program product, the computer program product comprising: computer program (also called code, or instructions), which when executed, causes an electronic device to perform the method of any of the embodiments shown in fig. 4.

The present application also provides a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program (also referred to as code, or instructions). The computer program, when executed, causes the electronic device to perform the method of any of the embodiments shown in fig. 4.

It should be understood that the processor in the embodiments of the present application may be an integrated circuit chip having signal processing capability. In implementation, the steps of the above method embodiments may be performed by integrated logic circuits of hardware in a processor or instructions in the form of software. The processor may be a general purpose processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic device, or discrete hardware components. The various methods, steps, and logic blocks disclosed in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented or performed. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the present application may be directly implemented by a hardware decoding processor, or implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules in the decoding processor. The software module may be located in ram, flash memory, rom, prom, or eprom, registers, etc. storage media as is well known in the art. The storage medium is located in a memory, and a processor reads information in the memory and completes the steps of the method in combination with hardware of the processor.

It will also be appreciated that the memory in the embodiments of the subject application may be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or may include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The non-volatile memory may be a read-only memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an electrically Erasable EPROM (EEPROM), or a flash memory. Volatile memory can be Random Access Memory (RAM), which acts as external cache memory. By way of example, but not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM), double data rate SDRAM, enhanced SDRAM, SLDRAM, Synchronous Link DRAM (SLDRAM), and direct rambus RAM (DR RAM). It should be noted that the memory of the systems and methods described herein is intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

As used in this specification, the terms "unit," "module," and the like are intended to refer to a computer-related entity, either hardware, firmware, a combination of hardware and software, or software in execution.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the various illustrative logical blocks and steps (step) described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware or combinations of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the implementation. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present application. In the several embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed apparatus, device and method may be implemented in other ways. For example, the above-described apparatus embodiments are merely illustrative, and for example, the division of the units is only one logical division, and other divisions may be realized in practice, for example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or not executed. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interfaces, devices or units, and may be in an electrical, mechanical or other form.

The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.

In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present application may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit.

In the above embodiments, the functions of the functional units may be fully or partially implemented by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions (programs). The procedures or functions described in accordance with the embodiments of the present application are generated in whole or in part when the computer program instructions (programs) are loaded and executed on a computer. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a network of computers, or other programmable device. The computer instructions may be stored in a computer readable storage medium or transmitted from one computer readable storage medium to another, for example, from one website site, computer, server, or data center to another website site, computer, server, or data center via wired (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer-readable storage medium can be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device, such as a server, a data center, etc., that incorporates one or more of the available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., floppy disk, hard disk, magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., DVD), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., Solid State Disk (SSD)), among others.

The functions may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium if they are implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as separate products. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present application or portions thereof that substantially contribute to the prior art may be embodied in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium and including instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to execute all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present application. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media capable of storing program codes, such as a usb disk, a removable hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present application, but the scope of the present application is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present application, and shall be covered by the scope of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A method for forwarding a multimedia message, comprising:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the download address is a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

3. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein prior to the management module generating the notification message, the method further comprises:

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the notification message further includes the receiving terminal information.

5. The method of any of claims 1 to 4, wherein the plurality of receiving terminals comprises a first receiving terminal, a network operator of the first receiving terminal is the first network operator, the notification message comprises a first notification message for sending to the first receiving terminal;

the management module sends the first notification message to a first short message gateway so as to send the first notification message to the first receiving terminal through the first short message gateway, wherein the first short message gateway is a short message gateway of the first network operator.

6. The method of any of claims 1 to 4, wherein the plurality of receiving terminals comprises a second receiving terminal, the network operator of the second receiving terminal is a second network operator, the notification message comprises a second notification message for sending to the second receiving terminal; and

the management module generates a notification message, including:

the management module sends the second notification message to a second short message gateway so as to send the second notification message to the second receiving terminal through the second short message gateway, wherein the second short message gateway is a short message gateway of the second network operator.

7. The method according to any of claims 1 to 6, wherein the multimedia message carries a check code of the sending terminal, the check code being used for the management module to authenticate the sending terminal.

8. A forwarding device for multimedia messages, characterized by means for implementing the method according to any one of claims 1 to 7.

9. An apparatus for forwarding multimedia messages, comprising a processor configured to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 7.

10. A computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of any of claims 1 to 7.