Patent ID: 6839736
Filing Date: 2005-01-04
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A multi-media E-mail method of transmitting/receiving a multimedia E-mail including information objects comprising at least one of various types of media information and positioning control information indicating how the information objects are temporally and/or spatially positioned, said multi-media E-mail method comprising: receiving the multi-media E-mail from a sender; restoring the received multi-media E-mail by positioning each of the information objects included in the received multi-media E-mail according to the positioning control information included therein; storing the information objects included in the received multi-media E-mail as received media information; composing a return mail for the restored incoming mail comprising return information objects, of which at least one return information object is an information object included in the received multi-media E-mail, and return positioning control information indicating how all return information objects are temporally and/or spatially positioned by utilizing the received media information; and transmitting the composed return mail back to the sender in a form of a multi-media E-mail including the return information objects except for at least one return information object which is an information object included in the received multi-media E-mail, and further including the return positioning control information for all return information objects.