Patent ID: 6393456
Filing Date: 2002-05-21
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
An electronic messaging system for transreceiving workflow specifications, the system comprising:(a) means for encoding a workflow mail item in the form of an electronic mail item to produce a resultant encoded workflow mail item; (b) means for transmitting the resultant encoded workflow mail item via a inter-server data communication path to a mail server computer by using a data communication protocol which is designed for exchange of electronic mail items in a wide-area network, wherein: (i) said data communication protocol is the Extensible Mark-up Language (XML); (ii) said encoding is executed using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions code (MIME); and (ii) said resultant encoded workflow mail item has a MIME declaration header including a multipart content type and a content sub-type indicative of a workflow specification.