Inter-carrier communications for multimedia-message delivery

A system for delivering a multimedia message from a user of a first network to a recipient on a second network, the system comprising one or more computing devices each having a processor and residing on a first network, the one or more computing devices being configured to provide:

• a message-receiving component configured to receive an outgoing multimedia message from an originating mobile device, wherein the outgoing multimedia message is addressed for delivery to a recipient mobile device on a second network;
• a querying component configured to query a multimedia messaging service center (MMSC) of the second network for one or more multimedia-messaging parameters of the recipient mobile device, the querying component communicating with the MMSC using an MM4 protocol;
• a modifying component configured to modify one or more of the outgoing multimedia message and one or more multimedia objects contained in the outgoing multimedia message to conform to the one or more multimedia-messaging parameters of the recipient mobile device and to provide a modified multimedia message;
• a communicating component configured to communicate the modified multimedia message to the MMSC of the second network for delivery to the recipient mobile device;
• a notification-receiving component configured to receive a failed-delivery notification from the MMSC that delivery of the modified multimedia message to the recipient mobile device by the MMSC failed;
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• a notifying component configured to communicate a notification to the originating mobile device indicating that the delivery of the multimedia message to the recipient mobile device failed.

A computer-implemented method for delivering a multimedia messaging service (MMS) message from a first multimedia messaging service center (MMSC) of a home network to a second MMSC of a foreign network, the method comprising:

• receiving an MMS message from a user's mobile device at a first MMSC, wherein the user's mobile device and the first MMSC are on a home network, and wherein the MMS message is addressed to a recipient's mobile device;
• determining that the recipient's mobile device is on a foreign network;
• querying a second MMSC of the foreign network for one or more multimedia-messaging parameters for the recipient's mobile device, wherein the multimedia-messaging parameters include one or more of parameters of the foreign network, the recipient's subscription parameters, and the recipient's mobile device parameters;
• receiving, at the first MMSC, the one or more multimedia-messaging parameters from the second MMSC;
• modifying, at the first MMSC, one or more of the MMS message and one or more multimedia objects contained in the MMS message to conform to the one or more multimedia-messaging parameters to provide a modified multimedia message;
• communicating the modified MMS message to the second MMSC for delivery to the recipient's mobile device;
• receiving a first failed-delivery notification from the second MMSC when the modified MMS message cannot be delivered to the recipient's mobile device;
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• communicating a second failed-delivery notification to the user's mobile device.