Multi-media E-mail system and device for transmitting a composed return E-mail
US6839736B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 23, 1999 |
| Grant date | Jan 4, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 23, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q10/107
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to reduce information volume going through a network when a multi-media E-mail is transmitted/received therethrough, which includes various types of media information being temporally and/or spatially related to one another. To attain the object, a return mail is composed by utilizing any object (received object) included in an incoming mail. Thereafter, the return mail is structured in a format for a multi-media E-mail including every object included in the return mail exclusive of the already-utilized object(s) and control information indicating how the objects in the return mail are temporally and/or spatially positioned, and then is transmitted to a computer system from which the incoming mail was transmitted.
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