Method of sharing multimedia

• US 20040177117A1
• Filed: 03/06/2003
• Published: 09/09/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ulead Systems, Inc (Corel Holdings LP)
• Original Assignee: Ulead Systems, Inc (Corel Holdings LP)
• Inventors: Huang, Chang-Shun
• Application Number:
  US10/379,599
• Publication Number:
  US 20040177117A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols

Abstract

A method of sharing multimedia. The method comprises the steps of obtaining multimedia files, storing a template providing a display area for the multimedia files, integrating the multimedia files and the template into an email message, transmitting the email message from a sender to a recipient, and opening the multimedia files in the display area provided by the template when the email message is opened by the recipient.

Claims

1. A method of sharing multimedia comprising the steps of:

obtaining at least one multimedia file;

storing a template providing a display area for multimedia files;

integrating the at least one multimedia file into the template to construct an email message;

transmitting the email message to a recipient; and

opening the at least one multimedia file in the display area provided by the template when the email message is opened by the recipient.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a thumbnail for each multimedia file is opened in the display area.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a preview of each multimedia file is opened in the display area.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display area is a frame having two sub-frames respectively for opening thumbnails and previews for each multimedia file.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display area is a frame having three sub-frames respectively for opening messages, and thumbnails and previews for each multimedia file.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display area is a frame having two sub-frames respectively for opening messages and a preview of each multimedia file.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display area is a frame having two sub-frames respectively for opening messages and thumbnails for each multimedia file.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the template is constructed using markup language.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the markup language is HTML or XTML.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the template is constructed using programming language.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the programming language is Java, Script, Flash, C or C++.

12. An apparatus for multimedia sharing comprising:

means for obtaining at least one multimedia file;

means for storing a template providing a display area for the at least one multimedia file;

means for integrating the at least one multimedia file into the template to construct an email message;

means for transmitting the email message from a sender to a recipient; and

means for opening the at least one multimedia file in the display area provided by the template when the email message is opened by the recipient.