Apparatus for Offering Event Image Mail Service using Multimedia Messaging Service and the Method Thereof

PURPOSE: An apparatus for providing an event image mail service by an MMS(Multimedia Messaging Service) and a method therefor are provided to offer multimedia event information to a subscriber by a PPG(Push Proxy Gateway) center/SMS(Short Message Service) center and a MMS relay server. CONSTITUTION: An encoder(120) edits multimedia data received from an input device(110), writes an event image mail, and uploads the written event image mail to an MMS relay server(130). The MMS relay server(130) transmits the event image mail received from the encoder(120) to a database(150) and an MMS converter(140), and transmits an event image mail converted in the MMS converter(140) to a PPG center(160). The database(150) stores the event image mail received from the MMS relay server(130). The MMS converter(140) converts the event image mail received from the MMS relay server(130) to be suitable for subscriber terminal environment, and transmits the converted event image mail to the MMS relay server(130). The PPG center(160) requests a UA(User Agent) profile to a subscriber terminal(170), receives the UA profile, and provides the received UA profile to the MMS relay server(130). The PPG center(160) receives the event image mail converted in the MMS converter(140) from the MMS relay server(130), and provides the received event image mail to the subscriber terminal(170).