Patent ID: 8626845
Filing Date: 2014-01-07
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A server-implemented method for rendering an electronic mail (e-mail) message to a user of a terminal, the method comprising the steps of: (a) transmitting, from at least one first server, the e-mail message to the terminal, the e-mail message comprising a content request, such that, when the user opens the e-mail message, the terminal automatically transmits the content request to the at least one first server; (b) receiving, at the at least one first server, the content request; (c) retrieving, by the at least one first server, a set of content based on the content request; (d) converting, by at least one second server, the set of content into at least one image associated with the set of content; (e) transmitting, from the at least one first server, the at least one image associated with the set of content to the terminal, such that the terminal automatically includes the at least one image associated with the set of content in the rendering of the e-mail message to the user at the terminal; and, (f) the set of content is time-dependent, such that: i) when the user opens the e-mail message at a first time, the at least one first server, in response to receiving a first instance of the content request from the terminal, retrieves a first set of content to be automatically included as at least one image by the terminal in a first rendering of the e-mail message to the user; and, ii) when the user opens the e-mail message at a second time different from the first time, the at least one first server, in response to receiving a second instance of the content request from the terminal, retrieves a second set of content, different from the first set of content, to be automatically included as at least one image by the terminal in a second rendering of the e-mail message to the user.