Patent ID: 7538771
Filing Date: 2009-05-26
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A mail data processing method executed in a system comprising a terminal device in which a predetermined amount of font data of Japanese language are registered, and a mail server for distributing Japanese mails to the terminal device, said method comprises: storing in a memory of the mail server in advance a font database for registering a larger amount of font data than the font data registered in the terminal device; storing in a memory of the mail server in advance a management database for storing management data indicating a registration status of the font data of the terminal device; in the mail server, analyzing mail data to be distributed by using the management database to extract characters for which the corresponding font data are unregistered in a destination terminal device; reading out from the font database and transmitting to the terminal device together with the mail data to be distributed when a character for which the corresponding font data is unregistered in the destination terminal device is extracted, the font data of the character thus extracted database; executing in the terminal device, a step A of reading out registered font data for every character contained in the received mail data; executing in the terminal device to display the content of the mail data, a step B of displaying a character image based on the registered font data read out, and executing before the display processing of the mail data in the terminal device when font data are received together with the mail data, registering the font data thus received.