Patent Document ID: 10050913
Application ID: 14894569

Base Claim:
1. A method for sending and receiving emails using international multilingual mailboxes, comprising the steps of: 1) setting an X-alternate-address field in the header of an email message in an international multilingual mailbox to record a substitute English email address corresponding to the international multilingual mailbox; and setting an X-address-language field in the header to set a predetermined language to describe email sender's email address; 2) before sending an email generated by a sending terminal that supports international multilingual mailbox, checking whether the receiving terminal of the email supports international multilingual mailbox; 3) if the receiving terminal supports emails of international multilingual mailbox, directly sending the email with the field of X-alternate-address in the email header; extracting the X-address-language field from the header of the email by the receiving terminal, determining the corresponding predetermined language, and sending a prompt in English or in the predetermined language to the email recipient; and 4) if the receiving terminal does not support emails of international multilingual mailbox, sending the email according to the English email address in the X-alternate-address field; and receiving the email by the receiving terminal.

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Claim 4:
4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined language is the language used by an email server at the receiving terminal.