Patent ID: 6784899
Filing Date: 2004-08-31
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04N

Abstract:
A system for providing remote access to a multimedia message having one or more objects, the system comprising:a multimedia messaging system having an input and an output for storing, sending and receiving multimedia messages; a message retrieval unit having an input and an output for retrieving the message and at least one object, and outputting the objects according to a type of the object, the message retrieval unit coupled to the multimedia messaging system, the message retrieval unit also interacting with a user to receive control signals; and an object-indexing unit having an input and an output for generating and storing indices for objects contained in multimedia messages, an index indicating both an object and a command to be performed on that object, the object-indexing unit coupled to the message retrieval unit, the object indexing unit also translating signals input by the user to corresponding commands and references to objects that are portions of each message.