Patent ID: 7308479

Claim:
A mail server connected to a mobile terminal through a network, the server comprising a control unit and a storage unit, wherein the storage unit stores a word dictionary containing a plurality of words by category and a word-image associating dictionary associating the words with respective display information thereof by animation character movement, object, and background, and the control unit controls processes of: receiving, from the mobile terminal, an ID code of the mobile terminal, selected animation character information, text information, and selected feeling expression information; dividing the text contained in the text information into word units; collating each of the word units with the words in the word dictionary; collating each collated word in the word dictionary with the display information in the word-image associating dictionary and extracting collated display information of an associated animation character movement, object, and background; synthesizing an animation image of the selected animation character in a real-time manner using the extracted display information of the associated animation character movement and the selected feeling expression information; creating an animation file in which the synthesized animation image is stored together with the extracted display information of the associated object and the associated background in a superposed manner; and outputting the animation file to the mobile terminal.