Patent ID: 7634502

Claim:
A method for transmitting an electronic mail message with an original media content, the method comprising: encoding the original media content at a sender's computing device with a first level of encoding to compress the original media content to create a compressed media content, the original media content comprising at least two elements of a plurality of elements comprising digital photo, digital audio, digital text and digital video; identifying the at least two elements of a plurality of elements comprising digital photo, digital audio, digital text and digital video; encoding the compressed media content with a plurality of content specific encoding specific to the identified at least of two of the plurality of elements comprising digital photo, digital audio, digital text and digital video to further compress the compressed media content to create a content-specific compressed media content; transferring the content-specific compressed media content from the sender's computing device across a communication medium, the communication medium selected from the group of Internet, an intranet network and a extranet network; receiving the content-specific compressed media content across the communication medium at a recipient's computing device; decoding the content-specific compressed media content at the recipient's computing device with a content-specific decoding to recreate the compressed media content; and decoding the compressed media content with a first level decoding to generate the original media content for opening at the recipient's computing device.