Method and radio communication device for the transmission-efficent editing of multimedia news
OwnerAndreas Schmidt, Markus Trauberg +1inventors
InventorsAndreas Schmidt, Markus Trauberg, Sabine Van Niekerk
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Abstract
In order to edit, in a transmission-efficient manner, multimedia news before sending or receiving such news, the existing user data volume (VOL) of a piece of multimedia news (MM) is determined prior to, during, and after putting together such piece of multimedia news (MM). At least one application reducing the original user data volume (VOL) of such piece of multimedia news (MM) is supplied and run in case a predefined user data volume threshold (SGx) or an upper price limit (SPx) is exceeded.
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A method for the transmission-efficient editing of multi-media messages before they are sent or received, wherein before, after and/or during the composition of the respective multimedia message (MM) the present, used user data volume (VOL) of the multimedia message (MM) is determined, and wherein if a predefinable price and/or user data volume upper limit (SPx, SGx) is exceeded, at least one reduction application is provided for reducing the originally present, used user data volume (VOL) of the multimedia message (MM) to be sent or received in a particular case.
The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims,
- characterized in that
- the originally present, used user data volume (VOL) of a price class (Px) is assigned to a tariffing system (GTM) graded according to user data volume.
The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims,
- characterized in that
- in the event of the chosen price upper limit (SPx) or chosen user data volume upper limit (SGx) being exceeded, at least one reduction application is provided to reduce the existing user data volume (VOL) of the multimedia message (MM) to be sent or received in a particular case, and that this reduction application is applied to the respective multimedia message (MM).
The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims,
- characterized in that
- attention is drawn to possible overshoots of previously defined price and/or user data volume upper limits (SPx, SGx).
The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims,
- characterized in that
- the price and/or user data volume upper limits (SPx, SGx) are defined either by the respective user and/or MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) service provider (PA, PB).
The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims,
- characterized in that
- a) the currently present user data volume (VOL) of the multimedia message (MM) to be sent or received is determined,
- b) the determined user data volume (VOL) is assigned to a price class (P1-P5),
- c) the user data volume (FVOL) still available for the price class (Px) corresponding to the determined user data volume (VOL) is determined,
- d) possible overshoots of defined price and/or user data volume upper limits (SPx, SGx) are determined and attention is drawn to the fact that
- e) the results of the determining step a) and/or of the assignment step b) and/or of the calculation step c) and/or of the possible upper limit overshoot according to step d) are indicated to a user in acoustic, tactile or graphical form,
- f) the user is presented with at least one suggestion for reducing the present user data volume, primarily with the aim of making the multimedia message (MM) belong to a lower price class (Px) than the originally assigned price class, and
- g) a reduction of the originally used user data volume is carried out in such a way that the edited multimedia message (MM) is made to belong to a lower price class than its originally assigned price class.
The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that its method steps or a subset thereof are performed directly in an MMS user agent.
The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that
- an output message for indicating a possible overshoot of a user data volume upper limit (SGx) and/or price class upper limit (SPx) is communicated to a user via at least one HMI (Human Machine Interface) unit in acoustic, tactile and/or graphical form.
The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that
- in order to reduce the present user data volume of a multimedia message element of the respective multimedia message (MM), a file type conversion, a file format conversion, a compression technique (=subset of the file format conversion), and/or, in the case of still images, a reduction of the color depth and/or the size can be used.
The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that
- the present user data volume (VOL) of the respective multimedia message (MM) is determined by the totaling of all data volumes of the individual multimedia message elements of said multimedia message.
A radio communication device, in particular a mobile radio device, which is embodied for performing the method as claimed in one of the preceding claims.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.