Patent ID: 7606863
Filing Date: 2009-10-20
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An e-mail server computing device, comprising: an e-mail receiving unit receiving e-mail, to which an image file has been attached, transmitted from an e-mail transmission-source device to the e-mail server computing device; a sender-information archiving database storing information relating to a sender who transmits e-mail using the transmission-source device; an image processing unit appending information relating to the sender that has been stored in said sender-information archiving database to the image file that has been attached to the e-mail received by said e-mail receiving unit; e-mail reconstructing means for attaching the image file, to which the information relating to the sender has been appended by said image processing unit, to the e-mail in place of the image file that was attached to the e-mail received by said e-mail receiving unit; and an e-mail transmitting unit transmitting the e-mail, which has been obtained by the e-mail reconstructing means and to which the image file having the appended information relating to the sender has been attached, from the e-mail server computing device to the e-mail transmission-source device.