Video-audio multimedia web-mail system and send-receive method thereof

• US 20030163819A1
• Filed: 02/21/2003
• Published: 08/28/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Taiwan Knowledge Bank Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Taiwan Knowledge Bank Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Ching-Sung, Hsu, Mu-Hsiu
• Application Number:
  US10/248,813
• Publication Number:
  US 20030163819A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/61
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234309 by transcoding between formats or standards, e.g. from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 or from Quicktime to Realvideo conversion of standards in analog television systems H04N7/01
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4786 e-mailing message switching systems, e.g. electronic mail systems H04L51/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8193 dedicated tools, e.g. video decoder software or IPMP tool

Abstract

A video-audio multimedia web-mail system, comprising a wide area network, a user side and a server side. In the user side, an editor is used to edit the e-mail, and the e-mail comprises a multimedia information. The browser has a plug-in program, the plug-in program is used to link the editor and to send out the e-mail via the wide area network. In the server side, a web server is used to receive the e-mail sent by the plug-in program via the wide area network, and display the e-mail having a web page language format on a web page that is executed by it. The application server has a parse and transform program, the parse and transform program is used to parse the e-mail that is received by the web server, and transform the e-mail to the web page language format based on the parsing result, send out the e-mail having the web page language format to the web server, and transform the e-mail having the web page language format to make it comply with both the web page language format and the coding specification of Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME), and send out an e-mail that complies with both the web page language format and the coding specification of MIME to a mail server in the system. The video-audio server sends a video-audio file that is contained in the e-mail received by the web server to the browser via the wide area network.

Claims

1. A video-audio multimedia web-mail system, comprising:

a wide area network;

a user side, comprising;

an editor, used to edit an electronic mail (e-mail), wherein, the e-mail comprises a video-audio information and a multimedia information;

a browser, having a plug-in program, wherein, the plug-in program is used to link the editor and send out the e-mail via the wide area network;

a server side, comprising;

a web server, used to receive the e-mail that is sent by the plug-in program via the wide area network, and display the e-mail having a web page language format on a web page that is executed by itself;

an application server, having a parse and transform program, wherein, the parse and transform program parses the e-mail that is received by the web server, transforms the e-mail to the web page language format based on the parsing result, sends out the e-mail having the web page language format to the web server, and transforms the e-mail having the web page language format to make it comply with both the web page language format and a coding specification of Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME), and sends the e-mail having the web page language format and the coding specification of MIME to a web server; and

a video-audio server, used to send out the video-audio information that is contained in the e-mail received by the web server via the wide area network to the browser.

2. The video-audio multimedia web-mail system of claim 1, wherein the user side can be one of a personal computer user side, a personal digital assistant (PDA) user side, a set-top box user side, and a third generation mobile phone user side.

3. The video-audio multimedia web-mail system of claim 1, wherein the editor is a text edit software.

4. The video-audio multimedia web-mail system of claim 1, wherein the web page language format is a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) format.

5. The video-audio multimedia web-mail system of claim 1, wherein the web page language format is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format.

6. The video-audio multimedia web-mail system of claim 1, wherein the application server comprises:

a database server, used to store and send out the e-mail having the web page language format to the web server and the video-audio server.

7. A multimedia web-mail system, comprising:

a wide area network;

a user side, comprising;

an editor, used to edit an electronic mail (e-mail), wherein, the e-mail comprises a multimedia information;

a browser, having a plug-in program, wherein, the plug-in program is used to link the editor and send out the e-mail via the wide area network;

a server side, comprising;

a web server, used to receive the e-mail that is sent by the plug-in program via the wide area network, and display the e-mail having a web page language format on a web page that is executed by itself; and

an application server, having a parse and transform program, wherein, the parse and transform program parses the e-mail that is received by the web server, transforms the e-mail to the web page language format based on the parsing result, sends out the e-mail having the web page language format to the web server, and transforms the e-mail having the web page language format to make it comply with both the web page language format and a coding specification of Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME), and sends the e-mail having the web page language format and the coding specification of MIME to a web server; and

a video-audio server, used to send out the video-audio information that is contained in the e-mail received by the web server via the wide area network to the browser.

8. The multimedia web-mail system of claim 7, wherein the user side can be one of a personal computer user side, a personal digital assistant (PDA) user side, a set-top box user side, and a third generation mobile phone user side.

9. The multimedia web-mail system of claim 7, wherein the editor comprises:

a text edit software, used to edit the e-mail information.

10. The multimedia web-mail system of claim 7, wherein the web page language format is a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) format.

11. The multimedia web-mail system of claim 7, wherein the web page language format is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format.

12. A video-audio multimedia web-mail send-receive method, related to a method for uploading an e-mail on a user side, the method comprising:

linking a web-mail edit program to an edit window; and

uploading the e-mail to finish the editing in the edit window, wherein, the e-mail comprises a video-audio information and a multimedia information.

13. The video-audio multimedia web-mail send-receive method of claim 12, wherein the user side can be one of a personal computer user side, a personal digital assistant (PDA) user side, a set-top box user side, and a third generation mobile phone user side.

14. The video-audio multimedia web-mail send-receive method of claim 12, wherein the edit window can be provided by a text processing software.

15. A multimedia web-mail send-receive method, related to a method for processing an e-mail on a server side, the method comprising:

parsing and determining whether the received e-mail is a web page language format, wherein, the e-mail comprises a multimedia information;

transforming the e-mail having the web page language format based on a result after the parsing; and

transforming the e-mail having the web page language format to make it comply with both the web page language format and a coding specification of MIME.

16. The multimedia web-mail send-receive method of claim 15, wherein the web page language format is a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) format.

17. The multimedia web-mail send-receive method of claim 15, wherein the web page language format is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format.

18. The multimedia web-mail send-receive method of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises:

transforming an equation information in the e-mail to a graphics exchange format file.

19. The multimedia web-mail send-receive method of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises:

transforming a table information in the e-mail to a graphics exchange format file.

20. The multimedia web-mail send-receive method of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises:

transforming a picture information in the e-mail to a graphics exchange format file.

21. The multimedia web-mail send-receive method of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises:

transforming a spreadsheet information in the e-mail to a graphics exchange format file.

22. A video-audio multimedia web-mail send-receive method, used on a user side and a server side to process an e-mail, the method comprising:

linking a web-mail edit program to an edit window;

uploading the e-mail to finish the editing in the edit window, wherein, the e-mail mail comprises a multimedia information and a video-audio information; and

sending out the video-audio information in the e-mail.

23. The video-audio multimedia web-mail send-receive method of claim 22, wherein the method further comprises:

sending out the video-audio information in the e-mail to the browser with a streaming method.

24. The video-audio multimedia web-mail send-receive method of claim 22, wherein the user side can be one of a personal computer user side, a personal digital assistant (PDA) user side, a set-top box user side, and a third generation mobile phone user side.

25. The video-audio multimedia web-mail send-receive method of claim 22, the method further comprising:

opening an edit window that is linked to the text edit software via the web-mail edit program.

26. The video-audio multimedia web-mail send-receive method of claim 22, wherein the web page language format is a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) format.

27. The video-audio multimedia web-mail send-receive method of claim 22, wherein the web page language format is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format.

28. The video-audio multimedia web-mail send-receive method of claim 22, wherein the multimedia information comprises an equation, a table information, a picture information, and a spreadsheet information.

29. The video-audio multimedia web-mail send-receive method of claim 28, wherein the method further comprises:

transforming an equation information in the e-mail to a graphics exchange format file.

30. The video-audio multimedia web-mail send-receive method of claim 28, wherein the method further comprises:

transforming a table information in the e-mail to a graphics exchange format file.

31. The video-audio multimedia web-mail send-receive method of claim 28, wherein the method further comprises:

transforming a picture information in the e-mail to a graphics exchange format file.

32. The video-audio multimedia web-mail send-receive method of claim 28, wherein the method further comprises:

transforming a spreadsheet information in the e-mail to a graphics exchange format file.