Multimedia contents creating apparatus and multimedia contents creating method

• US 20030236858A1
• Filed: 05/07/2003
• Published: 12/25/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Sano, Daisuke, Nishiyama, Akio
• Application Number:
  US10/430,428
• Publication Number:
  US 20030236858A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication

Abstract

The present invention provides a multimedia contents creating apparatus and a multimedia contents creating method are provided, which are capable of opening multimedia contents on a Web by a simple manner even in such a case that a user uses a compact terminal. In the apparatus, a mail relay server receives/repeats a first electronic mail transmitted from a mail transmitting terminal, and also, separates both a mail main text and an attached file from the first electronic mail. A contents creating device converts file data of the attached file into a composite multimedia content. A Web server 2 opens this composite multimedia content as a Web page. A second electronic mail constituted by the above-explained mail main text and a URL of the above-described Web page is created in the mail relay server, and then, this created second electronic mail is transmitted to a mail receiving terminal.

Claims

1. A multimedia contents creating apparatus comprising:

contents separating means operated in such a manner that when a first electronic mail to which at least one content has been attached is received, said first electronic mail is separated into a mail main text and said attached content; and

multimedia contents creating means for creating a multimedia content containing said separated content by using a predetermined template, and for registering said created multimedia content into a Web server.

2. The multimedia contents creating apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

electronic mail processing means for creating a second electronic mail containing both said mail main text and a URL which has been applied when said multimedia content is registered into the Web server, and also for transmitting said created second electronic mail to either a destination designated by said first electronic mail or a transmission source of said first electronic mail.

3. The multimedia contents creating apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein said multimedia contents creating means registers said separated content into said Web server, and writes URLs of the respective contents applied when said separated content is registered in the Web server into said template so as to create the multimedia content.

4. The multimedia contents creating apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein said multimedia contents creating means registers said separated content into said Web server, and writes URLs of the respective contents applied when said separated content is registered in the Web server into said template so as to create the multimedia content.

5. The multimedia contents creating apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein said template is a program described by way of an SMIL language, and owns such a portion into which the URLs of said contents can be inputted every content.

6. The multimedia contents creating apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein said template is a program described by way of an SMIL language, and owns such a portion into which the URLs of said contents can be inputted every content.

7. A multimedia contents creating method comprising:

an electronic mail receiving step for receiving a first electronic mail to which at least one content has been attached;

a contents separating step for separating said first electronic mail into both a mail main text and said attached content;

a multimedia contents creating step for creating a multimedia content containing said separated content by using a predetermined template; and

an uploading step for registering said created multimedia content into a Web server.

8. The multimedia contents creating method according to claim 7, further comprising:

an electronic mail creating step for creating a second electronic mail containing both said mail main text and a URL which has been applied when said multimedia content is registered into the Web server; and

an electronic mail transmitting step for transmitting said second electronic mail created in said electronic mail creating step to either a destination designated by said first electronic mail received in said electronic mail receiving step or a transmission source of said first electronic mail.

9. The multimedia contents creating method according to claim 7,

wherein said multimedia contents creating step includes:

a contents registering step for registering said separated content into said Web server; and

a URL writing step for writing URLs of the respective contents applied when said separated content is registered into said Web server in said contents registering step.

10. The multimedia contents creating method according to claim 8,

wherein said multimedia contents creating step includes:

a contents registering step for registering said separated content into said Web server; and

a URL writing step for writing URLs of the respective contents applied when said separated content is registered into said Web server in said contents registering step.

11. A multimedia contents creating apparatus comprising:

a mail relay server for transmitting/receiving an electronic mail and for separating a received electronic mail into a mail main text and a content attached to said electronic mail, if the received electronic mail includes at least a content; and

a contents creating device for creating a multimedia content containing said separated content by using a predetermined template and for registering said created multimedia content into a Web server.

12. The multimedia contents creating apparatus according to claim 11,

wherein said mail relay server creates another electronic mail including said separated mail main text and an URL corresponding to said multimedia content created and registered into a Web server by said contents creating device, and transmits the created electronic mail to a mail receiving terminal.