Patent ID: 6519630
Filing Date: 2003-02-11
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
A method of transmitting and receiving an electronic mail comprising the steps of:transmitting the electronic mail from a sender terminal to a receiver terminal, the transmitting step comprising the steps of producing the electronic mail including character codes of characters constituting a mail document, at least one conversion program for converting the characters to be displayed in an animated form, and an address of the receiver terminal, and transmitting the electronic mail; and receiving the electronic mail at the receiver terminal, the receiving step comprising: receiving the electronic mail; from a font storage unit storing character patterns corresponding to character codes, reading out the character patterns corresponding to the character codes included in the electronic mail; spreading the read-out character patterns on a bit map memory to produce bit map fonts; converting the bit map fonts by using the received conversion program according to the passage of time; and displaying the converted bit map fonts on a display device.