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Email multicasting device

US7590700B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 30, 2005
Grant dateSep 15, 2009
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Expiry dateOct 24, 2027

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L51/58
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention provides an email multicasting device which changes a distribution interval of emails dynamically in accordance with the number of emails to be multicast. The email multicasting device pre-stores on a client basis, mobile numbers of users which are destinations of an email. The email multicasting device, when receiving mail contents from a client, creates plural emails each of which contains the mail contents and one of mobile numbers associated with the client, and queues the emails in a buffer area. The queued emails are distributed sequentially at predetermined time intervals by the email multicasting device.

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