MXPA97010005A - Message system of multiple media with ingre distribution - Google Patents

Abstract

The Multiple Media Message System of the present invention provides income distribution among several sender-receiver service providers on a per message basis for a sender, connected to a telecommunications network of a service provider, sends a message to a receiver, connect it to a telecommunications network of another service provider. Each message has a "message ringer" associated with it, which allows the distribution of the income associated with the individual message from the service providers involved for the transmission of that message. An Information Exchange Center is used to issue new message stamps and process the distribution of income for each service provider according to the timbres of the message. The stamp is added to each message by the information exchange center to provide the income distribution between the service providers of origin (sender) and destination (receiver). The ringing is terminated or canceled by the destination unit that can additionally route messages to a mailbox, (for example, service node) or to additional destination service providers. The revenue from the stamp is shared by the service provider of the sender of the message, the stamp sender, the service provider of the recipient of the message, the stamp collector used / canceled. The canceled ring can be exchanged or exchanged between the service providers through their respective information exchange centers, for additional cash or stamps according to a predetermined income sharing arrangement among the participating service providers.

Description

MEDIA MESSAGE SYSTEM M LTIPLES WITH DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION TECHNICAL FIELD This invention relates generally to multi-media message systems, and more particularly, to a method and system for implementing the distribution of message ingress.

RELATED PREVIOUS TECHNIQUE Multi-media message and e-mail message systems (or "email") allow the transmission of messages between users based on a computer connected in a telecommunication network. Depending on the capabilities of a particular message system, graphic, audio, or plain text messages can be sent between these users. A common known messaging system is configured so that both the sender and the receiver are represented by the same network, be it a local area network ("LAN") or a network offered by a service provider REF: 26222 unique, as shown in Figure 1. In these systems, communications, in the form of messages, will occur between the sender, where the message originates, and the receiver, which is the destination of the message. Normally, the costs of communications for the email messages run both by the sender and the receiver to have access to their respective mailboxes in the email system. The sender pays some type of user right to access an email system in which he can send (and receive) messages. The recipient pays a similar use right to access an email system in which he can receive (and send) messages. On a per-message basis, the sender runs a cost to send a message, and the recipient runs a similar cost to retrieve the message. When both the sender and the receiver are represented by the same service in the telecommunication network of the provider, the distribution of the payment for a particular message between the sender and the receiver had not been a problem. As the interred email has been in widespread use, the developments of the technique have ordered the limited redistribution of the email income between the different service providers involved in the transmission of a particular message. For example, one such known development provides the designation of a "paying party" to pay the total cost of the communication, as opposed to the sender and receiver having to pay a fee. In this known technique, the sender of an e-mail message can designate whether the sender would be responsible for the total cost of the message, (ie, access to the sender's service provider) or whether the recipient will be responsible for payment with the sender. Acceptance of the email message (that is, entry to the recipient's service provider) of the total cost. While offering improvements over the traditional system in which the sender pays, these known methods of and systems for income accounting only order an all-or-none division of income-that is, whether the sender or receiver pays the cost total of the electronic mail message, accumulating the total income to a service provider of the telecommunications network. This suffers from the inherent limitation that only the service provider acting as a representative of either the sender and receiver would receive the full benefit of the payment, with nothing going to the other service provider. As is evident from the above, the limitations in the known methods limit the effectiveness, and therefore the usefulness, of the current level of progress achieved in the area of income accounting of electronic mail.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The limitations of the known multi-media mail revenue accounting methods and systems are solved and technical advances are achieved by the present invention of a method and system for distributing the revenue on a per message basis. The distribution can be varied through any interval between any or multiple service providers involved in delivering the object message, including the service provider that represents the sender, the service provider that represents the receiver, and any intermediary service providers or networks involved in sending a message to their destination. In an illustrative embodiment, the method and system of the present invention is provided to use an exchange information center to distribute the revenues among the service providers through the use of message stamps. The information exchange center, which resides in a sender service provider in one mode, will issue the stamp of the message containing the identification information identifying the information exchange center and the sender's service provider. The ringer is associated with the message and is transmitted to an information exchange center in the recipient's service provider. The content of the stamp is modified by the information exchange center in the recipient's service provider to include the information that identifies the provider that receives and sends back to the sender service provider where the information exchange center dissociates the stamp, process the information contained in the stamp and distribute the income according to this. Other advantages and features of the present invention will become apparent in view of the following detailed description of the illustrative and alternative embodiments of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The following drawings are referred to in the detailed description that follows, and are provided to facilitate a better understanding of the invention described herein. Figure 1 illustrates an implementation of the prior art email system.

Figure 2 illustrates the implementation of the electronic mail system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Figure 3 illustrates a flow diagram for establishing a communication session with a service node according to an embodiment of the present invention. Figure 4 illustrates a continuation of the flow diagram of Figure 3, where the communication has not been established successfully. Figure 5 illustrates a continuation of the flow chart of Figure 3, where a valid individual user identification has been determined. Figure 6 illustrates a continuation of the flow diagram of Figure 3, where a user identification has been determined from the valid information exchange center. Figure 7 illustrates the operation of the information exchange center for the functions of Figures 5 and 6.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED MODALITIES Figure 2 illustrates the present invention according to one embodiment thereof.

The Multiple Media Message system as described with respect to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, provides the distribution of income between several sender-receiver service providers on a per message basis for a user 20, connected via a personal computer ( "PC") to a telecommunications network of a service provider 10, that is, the sender, sends a message to a user 30, connected via a PC in a telecommunications network to another service provider 200, that is, the receiver. In accordance with the present invention, each message has a "message stamp" associated with it, which allows the distribution of the revenue associated with that individual message among the service providers involved for the transmission of that message. In the illustrative embodiment of the present invention, an "Information Exchange Center" is used to issue the message stamps and process the distribution of income for each service provider according to the timbres of the message. Generally, multi-media mail from a sender originating from a computer (e.g., a switch or intelligent processor) from a service provider ("home service provider") of a telecommunications network, and that it has a destination to a receiver in equipment of another service provider ("destination service provider") of a telecommunications network, requires that an appropriate originating payment (sender) is made before placing the message in the mailbox of the destination service provider. In accordance with the present invention, the bell is added to each message by the information exchange center to provide the income distribution between the originating service providers (sender) and the destination (recipient). The elimination or cancellation of the ringer is performed by the destination unit that can additionally direct the message to a mailbox (e.g., service node) or to additional destination service providers. The entry stamp is shared by the service provider of the sender of the message, the stamp sender, and the service provider of the message receiver, the used / canceled stamp collector. The canceled ring can be exchanged or exchanged between the service provider via their respective information exchange centers, for cash or additional stamps according to a predetermined income sharing arrangement among the participating service providers. While the illustrative modalities discussed here involve electronic mail systems, the invention is equally applicable to other computer-based message systems such as multi-media message systems. In accordance with this exemplary embodiment, a Service Node 100 of the telecommunications network 10 (in this mode a carrier of local exchange or "LEC") is configured to comprise a Communications Manager 110, a Mailbox Management Module of the User 120, Interrogation Routine Database 130, Information Exchange Center Administration Module 140, and Knowledge Routine 150. Communications Manager 100, is in communication with a Module 0A &; M 112, the Database 114, the File System 116 and the Microprocessor 118. The Communications Manager 110 serves as the communications interconnection from the user of the LEC 10 and the Service Node 100. The Module 0A &M 112 is designated to perform the Operation, Administration, and Maintenance routines that show the service node 100. The Database 114 is used to store information, including mailbox information for each user (sender and receiver), status of the stamp (for example, "canceled" or "usable") for the information exchange center, the accounting of income distributed to participating service providers and the distribution of income arrangements (in, for example, a form of algorithm ). File System 116 contains the information and programs necessary to control and operate the service node. The Microprocessor 118 has access to the information stored in the database 114. The User Mailbox Management Module 120 provides a user's mailbox and the user's usage information for administration and billing for each user. The Interrogation Routine Database 130 provides access to user data for each user and data from the information exchange center for the information exchange center of the service node, both of which are contained in the database. data 114. The Management Module of the Center for Exchange of Information 140 provides a mailbox for the information exchange center and the necessary ring information for the administration of the Center Exchange of Information and billing, and also provides the sending of messages for priority processing (for example, priority ring) to each appropriate user.

The Recognition Routines 150, executed by the Administration Module of the Exchange Center of Information 140, form stamps for messages that include information segments such as the identification of the originating service provider (sender) and the user's mailbox information (sender and receiver). Routines combine the ringer and message and send the ringing message to the destination service provider. Reconnaissance routines executed in an information exchange center for a receiver's service provider, segment the information received with each incoming email message, back to the categories of "message", "mailbox information" and "stamp" " The timbre information is, therefore, dissociated from the message. The recognition routines then store the message (based on information from the extracted mailbox) and the ringer on an appropriate portion of the database 114. The manner in which a message ring is associated with an individual message is not critical to the present invention. Several known method protocols are known for linking the send data with header data or on a time stamp as part of the header data. The heading stamp with fields is also known, as well as the concept of data packing and unpacking.

After the stamps have been dissociated from the incoming message, they are processed by the information exchange center. While an information exchange center can service providers and users of multiple services, in the exemplary mode, a CH1 information exchange center resides in the network of the originating service provider (the one sending) 100 and a center exchange of information CH2 resides in the network of the service provider of destination (the one that receives) 102. In the illustrative mode, the information exchange centers CH1 and CH2, coordinate the distribution of income between their respective service providers based on in a predetermined arrangement among those providers for the distribution of income. To achieve the division of income, each stamp carries certain information to assist in the distribution of income. In one mode, CH1 sends the message with the associated ringer to CH2. CH2 dissociates the ringer and message and delivers the message as requested by CH1. After dissociating the chime, CH2 sends back a modified buzzer to include its identity, for authentication by CH1. Then CH1 sends the payment to CH2 according to the arrangement of the predetermined income distribution.

Explained in more detail, the information exchange center that sends CH1 will identify itself as the information exchange center that issues the timbre. The identity information of the information exchange center is sent decoded, so that the text that shows the identity of the CH1 information exchange center is readily available.

Using the known decoding techniques, such as, for example, the Federal Standard 1016, the public key decoding technique, a cipertext is generated that shows a shared code of income and a buzzer. After the information exchange center CH2, the information exchange center that receives, has received the message and dissociated the bell, the bell is modified by the information exchange center CH2 to include its identity as the provider of information. service you receive. The modified timbre is then returned to CH1. CH1 authenticates the part of the cipertext to identify and confirm the ringer code on the returned ringer. Due to the distribution arrangement with CH2, CH1 will give credit (ie, "make payment to") an accounting organization for the benefit of CH2, in a database accessible to CH1.

In this mode, the multi-media stamp format is a "two-state stamp," which has two states: canceled and not canceled. The used bell is "canceled" by CH1 after "payment" to CH2. In this example, the ring is thus used as a payment method to CH2 and then canceled by CH1 because it is not used again. This canceled ring can be recycled by CH1, in the information exchange center it issues, to be sent to a frequent user who requests it. In an alternative mode, the message may be addressed to a recipient at another receiving service provider, having a CH3 information exchange center. In this case, after it is modified by CH2, now an intermediary information exchange center, the bell will not be returned to CH1 until it is modified by CH3 as well. CH1 would then credit the accounting for CH2 and CH3 as appropriate, before canceling the message ringer. In still other modalities, the functions described for the implementation of two information exchange centers of the illustrative modality can be implemented within an information exchange center that services all the sending and receiving service providers involved, such as it will be understood by someone with experience in the technique. In a modality where only one information exchange center is used, the additional routing capabilities would be incorporated to route the messages from the service providers they send to the recipients as will be understood by one skilled in the art. These alternative embodiments in not any variations therein shall be repeated to depart from the scope of the present invention. The operation of the present embodiment will now be described in greater detail starting with Figure 3. A user (i.e., sender) 20 (Figure 2) who wishes to send a message to another user (i.e., receiver) 30 (Figure 2) you must first establish communication with your represented email system with your guest service node 100 (Figure 2). Figure 3 illustrates a method for the user (sender or receiver) to establish communications with the service node representing the electronic mail system in this embodiment of the present invention. A user on the PC 20 establishes a communication session with the service node 100 ("Node") in step 300. (Note: When the communication is indicated "a" or "with" the "node", such communication in this mode is effected through the communication manager 110, Figure 2 .. As such, in the references herein / to the communication with or by the node, "node" or "communication manager" are used interchangeably to unless otherwise indicated). Step 300 in this embodiment comprises three sub-steps (a) - (c) as shown in Figure 3. In sub-step (a), a call initiated by a PC is placed by user 20 to node 100. In the sub-step (b), node 100 answers the call from PC 20. In sub-step (b), node 100 sends a message of required to PC 20 to obtain additional response from PC 20. In sub-step (c), in response to the required message, the PC 20 sends an acknowledgment message back to the node 100. A determination is then made by the communications manager 110 of the node 100 in step 320, if the communications have been established. If the communications have not been established successfully, then it is done in step 330 only if an error has been detected during the attempt to establish communications in step 300. Where an error has been detected in step 330, the flow continues to error handling in step 335 to handle the detected error. In sub-step (a) of step 335, PC 20 terminates the modem connection at its end. In sub-step (b), communications manager 110 ends the partially established communication session.

If no error was detected in step 330, the flow continues to A, Figure 4. In Figure 4, a new attempt is made to establish a communication session to Node 100 in step 400, by means of another call initiated by a node to the service node. A determination is made in step 420 where communications have been established in this attempt. If they have not been established successfully, the Node 100 will display an error message, step 430. If successful, the acknowledgment message received is scrutinized for validity in step 440. If it is valid, the node then stores the information of the mailbox for that user in step 460. If it is not valid, the node will discard the email message and place an error message in step 480. Referring again to Figure 3, when communication has been successfully established, (step 300) , Figure 3), the flow continues to Validate the USER ID in step 340. Step 340 comprises four sub-steps (a) - (d). In sub-step (a), PC 20 sends its ID of the USER to the communications manager 110 in the node 100. The communications administrator 110 then verifies, in sub-step (c), the USER ID to determine if it is valid. This is done using the appropriate Interrogation Routines Databases 130 (Figure 2) available to the communications manager 110 on the node 100. The USER ID received from the PC 20 is compared to a valid USER ID stored in the base of data 114 in node 100. In sub-step (c), communication manager 110 places a message of "ID VALID" or "ID NO.

VALID "to PC 20, as appropriate Wherein the USER ID is determined to be NON-VALID, the flow continues to handle the invalidity error in step 350. In sub-step (a) of step 350, the node 100 initiates the termination of the communication session In sub-step (b), the PC 20 terminates the communication session at its endpoint, where the USER ID is determined as VALID, the flow continues to step 360 to evaluate the information of the USER ID. The USER ID can identify a user who wants to send or receive a message, that is, an individual user, or the information exchange center. Where the USER ID identifies an individual user who wishes to send or retrieve a message, the flow continues to B (step 500), Figure 5. Where the USER ID identifies the information exchange center, the flow continues to C (step 600), Figure 6. (In this embodiment of the present invention, for purposes of explanation it is assumed that the user is an individual to distinguish it more easily from a user of an information exchange center, however, it will be easily understood that other categories of users also apply). In Figure 5, a verified individual user is presented with a menu that offers several options, according to this modality, which are made available to that user. These options include options for: (a) Retrieving User Information; (b) Send A Message; (c) Request a Multiple Media Message Ring; (d) Request the Priority of a Multiple Media Message Stamp; (e) Buy a Message Stamp; and (f) Request Another Transaction. The individual options will now be explained in more detail.

Option (a) - Retrieve User Information A user, selecting this option, will obtain information regarding their mailbox, for example, if there are messages waiting, how many stamps are currently available to the user, etc. Email messages can also be retrieved from this option.

Option (b) - Send A Message A user can select, formulate and send an email message by this option. The destination of the message is entered, along with the desired message.

Option (c) - Request for a Multiple Media Message Ring. A user may request a multi-media ringer of pre-purchased (available) message stamps to be attached (post or pre) to the e-mail message to be sent. (See option (e) below). (A simple analogy can be drawn by placing a postal stamp on a letter to be sent to the conventional Post Office).

Option (d) Request the Priority of a Stamp of Multiple Media Message. When a user wishes to speed up the delivery of an email message, a priority multi-media ring can be selected from the pre-purchased message stamps to be joined (post or pre) to the email message.

Option (e) Buy a Multiple Media Message Ring. A user may select to purchase a specific number of multi-media message stamps, (both normal and priority stamps) from the service provider's exchange center • for use in future e-mail messages. (An analogy can be drawn for illustrative purposes by purchasing a stamp book from the local Post Office). Since the user account with the service provider will be charged for the purchase of stamps, purchases of stamps in the user's account can be protected with a password. (Other schemes, such as charging directly to a credit card account for the cost of the stamps may be incorporated in other embodiments of the present invention).

Option (f) Request Another Transaction. After making any of the options (a) - (e), a user is asked if he has any other transactions he wishes to complete. If so, the menu of step 500 is represented once more. If not, then it leaves the email system.

In Figure 6, a user of an information exchange center is presented with a menu 600 that offers options available to the user of the information exchange center. These options include options to: (a) Retrieve Information from the Information Exchange Center; (b) Activate Message Ringtones; (c) Message Cancels Canceled in Cash; and (d) Administer the Message Routing Instructions. The individual options will now be explained in more detail.

Option (a) Retrieve Information from the Information Exchange Center. A user of the information exchange center, when selecting this option, will be provided with information regarding the information exchange center information, for example, the number of active clients assigned to an individual user, the status of the stamps used, the information of the canceled timbres, the answers of the requests of the individual users for timbres, etc.

Option (b) Activate Message Ringtones. In response to the request for a ringer by an individual user (Option (e), Figure 5), the user of the information exchange center can activate this ringer to be used by the individual requesting it, assigned to the applicant's mailbox. This is similar to selling a book of stamps to an individual user.

Option (c) Message Ringtones Canceled in Cash. The stamps that have been decoupled from the incoming e-mail messages by the recognition routines 150 (Figure 2) executed by the administration module of the information exchange center 140 (Figure 2), are tabulated according to a percentage due to each information exchange center (ie, the service provider) involved with the delivery of each message to the mailboxes represented on that server in a manner similar to the records of the accounts received and accounts payable. Requests for payment of received accounts are then sent to the appropriate external information exchange centers, and payments for accounts payable are made by other appropriate information exchange centers.

Option (d) Manage the Message Routing Instructions. At this stage, the routing information of the message is provided to the user (probably the system administrator). This information includes: the location of multi-media stamps, (that is, where they are kept until they are used); the location from where the messages are retrieved (before placing a stamp and sending them); and the location where the messages were placed (for example, the address of the mailbox network). The error conditions in Figure 4 have corresponding error condition identifiers, ie, El, E2, associated with each error condition detected in the communication process, and the menu options of Figures 5 and 6 have identifiers of menus associated with each menu option entry, ie Al, A2, Bl, B2, etc. These identifiers correlate the action of the administration in the service node required for the detected error condition or the selected menu option. The totality of the menu identifiers and the error condition codes of Figures 4, 5 and 6 of this mode are shown in Figure 7. For example, if option (a) of Figure 5 to retrieve the information of the user is selected, this option is associated with the identifier of the Al menu. With reference to Figure 7, the menu identifier Al corresponds to the Administration identifiers requesting the Node 100 (1) to ask the database 114 for the user's mailbox; and (2) to interrogate the database 114 for information corresponding to the user's mailbox. While the default condition of the implementation of the present invention in accordance with the illustrative embodiment, will simply eliminate an invalid message or one that can not be preempted as it was addressed without notifying the sender, other embodiments of the present invention allow the message be returned to the destination of origin if it can not be delivered. A "return to sender" message can be added by any device or programs in the message path, although in the preferred mode, this would be done by the communications manager of the service node. Another embodiment of this invention allows for the alternate processing of timbres based on the cost of the timbre-that is, several implementations of accelerated delivery requests in conjunction with priority timbres. The default condition of the illustrative embodiment of the present invention simply places the message in the recipient's mailbox. Additional processing where priority ringers are used may include informing the user of the message, for example, sending the user a voice message or notifying reception by pager. When an e-mail message must pass through a series of intermediary networks to reach the destination address, if all the networks use the same e-mail format, a gateway is used to translate the e-mail message format of a network to another, that the following network can understand. Along with their journey to the final destination, the routers and intermediate gates open each packet of electronic intermediate mail to determine the destination address, read the message ringer and advance to the next stage (either another intermediate unit or the destination network). ). In one embodiment, each intermediate unit may be equipped with an information exchange center in accordance with the present invention. Or, in yet another modality, a single central information exchange center to which a number of network service providers belong may distribute the payment to each network provider that participates in the delivery of any message. The present invention has been illustrated and described with respect to specific exemplary embodiments thereof. It will be readily understood, however, that the embodiments described above are merely illustrative of the principles of the invention, and are not intended to be exclusive or otherwise limiting modalities. It should be further understood that the above and many other modifications, omissions and additions should be reviewed by one skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. It is noted that in relation to this date, the best method known to the applicant to carry out the aforementioned invention, is that which is clear from the present description of the invention. Having described the invention as above, property is claimed as contained in the following:

Claims (23)

1. A multi-media message system for transmitting an electronic message from a sender to a receiver, the message system is characterized in that it comprises: a sender service provider that allows the sender to have access to the message system; a receiver service provider that allows the receiver to access the message system; an information exchange center, in communication with the sender's service provider and the recipient's service provider; a message stamp, issued by the information exchange center for the sender's service provider and processed by the information exchange center, the stamp contains information that includes the identification information that identifies the information exchange center and the service provider of the sender, wherein a message ringer is associated with the message to be transmitted by the information exchange center, resulting in a stamped message to be transmitted by the receiver's service provider, the stamped message is sent from the service provider from the sender to the receiver's service provider, the information exchange center dissociates the ringer, the identification information contained in the stamp issued to the sender's service provider by the information exchange center is then modified by the provider service of the sender so that it also contains the information n identifying the provider of the receiver, the modified timbre is returned to sender service provider where the modified identification information is processed.

2. The multi-media message system according to claim 1, characterized in that after processing, the revenue is distributed according to an income distribution arrangement and the results of the income distribution are stored in a database.

3. The multi-media message system according to claim 1, characterized in that the sender's service provider and the recipient's service provider are the same.

4. The multi-media message system according to claim 1, characterized in that the information exchange center resides in the service provider of the sender.

5. The multi-media message system according to claim 1, characterized in that the information exchange center resides in the receiver's service provider.

6. The multi-media message system according to claim 1, characterized in that the information exchange center resides in each of the service provider of the sender and the service provider of the recipient.

7. The multi-media message system according to claim 1, characterized in that the information exchange center dissociates the timbre of the stamped message, the information exchange center authenticates the timbre, retrieves the identification information of the timbre and cancels the timbre .

8. An information exchange center for a multi-media message system for transmitting a message, characterized in that it comprises: means of issuing to issue a message ring that contains information regarding the message; means to associate the timbre of the message with the message; processing means to recover the information of the issued stamp and cancel the stamp; and means for routing the message received from a sender to a receiver.

9. The information exchange center according to claim 8, characterized in that the processing means include means for authenticating the timbre.

10. The information exchange center according to claim 8, characterized in that it also comprises means for tabulating and storing information retrieved from the processed timbre.

11. The information exchange center according to claim 10, characterized in that the accounting means for tabulating and storing information retrieved from the processed stamp also generates a declaration of the summary of the information.

12. The information exchange center according to claim 8, characterized in that the message bell is a two status message bell, the two states being canceled and not canceled.

13. The information exchange center according to claim 12, characterized in that the routing of the stamped message is part of the processing means.

14. The information exchange center according to claim 8, characterized in that the stamp, issued to the service provider by the information exchange center, is associated with the message by the sender's service provider, resulting in a stamp message for transmitted to the receiver's service provider, the ringing message is routed from the sender's service provider to the receiver's service provider, the information exchange center dissociates the ring, processes the information retrieved from the ring and sends the message to the service provider of the receiver.

15. A method for transmitting an electronic message from a sender to a receiver in a multi-media system system characterized in that it comprises the steps of: allowing the sender to access the message system by means of the sender's service provider; allow the recipient to access the message system through the recipient's service provider; issuing a message ringer through an information exchange center, the ringer contains information that includes identifying information identifying the information exchange center and the sender's service provider; verify the content of the stamp to include identifying information to identify the recipient's service provider; and process the modified message timbre.

16. The method according to claim 15, characterized in that it also comprises the steps of: associating the bell with the message; route the message to the recipient's service provider; and dissociate the timbre of the message.

17. The method according to claim 15, characterized in that it also includes the steps of: maintaining an account and storing the message delivery information in the account.

18. The method according to claim 15, characterized in that it also includes the step of returning the bell of the modified message to the information exchange center that issues it.

19. The method according to claim 17, characterized in that the steps of modifying the ringer content, processing the ringer of the modified message, associating the ringer with the message, routing the message to the receiver's service provider, dissociating the ringer from the message and keep an account and store the message delivery information in the account, they are made in an information exchange center.

20. The method in accordance with the claim 15, characterized in that the service provider of the sender and the service provider of the receiver are the same.

21. The method according to claim 15, characterized in that the information exchange center resides in the service provider of the sender.

22. The method in accordance with the claim 18, characterized in that the information exchange center resides in the recipient's service provider.

23. The method according to claim 18, characterized in that it also includes the step of the ringer authentication. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The Multiple Media Message System of the present invention provides income distribution among several sender-receiver service providers on a per-message basis for a sender., connected to a telecommunications network of a service provider, send a message to a receiver, connect it to a telecommunications network of another service provider. Each message has a "message stamp" associated with it, which allows the distribution of the income associated with the individual message from the service providers involved for the transmission of that message. An Information Exchange Center is used to issue new message stamps and process the distribution of income for each service provider according to the timbres of the message. The stamp is added to each message by the information exchange center to provide the income distribution between the service providers of origin (sender) and destination (receiver). The removal or cancellation of the ringer is performed by the destination unit that can additionally route the messages to a mailbox, (for example, service node) or to additional destination service providers. The stamp revenue is shared by the service provider of the message sender, the stamp sender, the message receiver service provider, the used / canceled stamp collector. The canceled ring can be exchanged or exchanged between the service providers through their respective information exchange centers, for additional cash or stamps according to a predetermined income sharing arrangement among the participating service providers.