Patent ID: 6360252
Filing Date: 2002-03-19
Classification: G06Q,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
A computer-implemented method of presenting e-mail attachments for users who have client machines:(A) transferring a client version of an e-mail item to a user's client machine for presentation by the client machine, the e-mail item including an attachment, the client version including a user-understandable descriptor of the attachment but not including the entire attachment; (B) receiving a request from the user's client machine to transfer the attachment for rendering; and (C) in response to the request, obtaining an output version of the attachment and transferring the output version to a rendering device, the output version causing the rendering device to produce a rendered version of the attachment, wherein the rendering device is not the client machine and the client machine has not received the attachment at completion of transferring the output version to the rendering device.