Message publishing system

• US 20060143307A1
• Filed: 02/16/2006
• Published: 06/29/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: EasyWeb Innovations, LLC
• Original Assignee: John Codignotto
• Inventors: Codignotto, John D.
• Granted Patent: US 7,596,606 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/246
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/116 Details of conversion of file system types or formats
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2206/1512 Print-to a presentation device other than a printer, e.g. e-reader, e-paper, tablet
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1276 within a printer driver, e.g. driver resides either on a server or on a client
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/22 by selection of a specific region containing or referencing a pattern; Locating or processing of specific regions to guide the detection or recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/416 Extracting the logical structure, e.g. chapters, sections or page numbers; Identifying elements of the document, e.g. authors
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00222 details of image data generation or reproduction, e.g. scan-to-email or network printing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32374 Storage subsequent to an attempted transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32475 Changing the format of the data, e.g. parallel to serial or vice versa
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32771 in response to a request, e.g. for a particular document
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4433 : to an apparatus, part of an apparatus or an apparatus function

Abstract

A Message Publishing System (MPS) configured to receive a message from a sender, identify the sender as an authorized sender based on information associated with the message in comparison to data in a sender account, store the message, receive a request over the Internet for at least a portion of the message from a requestor and responsively retrieve the portion of the message, and send the portion of the message to the requestor over the Internet. In further aspects of the disclosure, a security module can implement a security scheme with reference to data in the sender account as a function of the format of the message, and the message can be converted from one format to another.

Claims

1. An Internet message publishing system (IMPS), comprising:

at least one sender account;

means for receiving a message over a network from a sender of said message, said message being in a first format;

means for identifying said sender of said message as an authorized sender based on information associated with said message in comparison to data in the sender account, wherein said identifying means further includes security means for implementing a security scheme with reference to data in the sender account and wherein said security scheme is dependent upon the format of said message;

means for converting said message from said first format to a second format;

means for storing said message in at least one storage area;

means for receiving a request for at least a portion of said message from a requestor, said request being made over the Internet;

means for retrieving at least the portion of said message from said storage area, in response to receiving said request; and

means for sending at least the portion of said message to said requestor over the Internet.

2. The IMPS according to claim 1, wherein said message comprises at least one of an email, an email attachment, audio, a facsimile, an image, and text.

3. The IMPS according to claim 1, further comprising means for sending said message to said IMPS, said sending means comprises a virtual printer driver.

4. The IMPS according to claim 1, further comprising notification means for notifying at least one person in response to said message being published by said IMPS.

5. The IMPS according to claim 1, wherein said converting means comprises a generator in support of an automatic generation of at least a portion of a webpage which has either a reference to at least one portion of said message or at least a part of said message.

6. The IMPS according to claim 1, wherein said converting means comprises means for replacing a keyword contained in an existing file with at least a portion of said message.

7. The IMPS according to claim 1, further comprising addressing means for assigning a retrieval address suitable for retrieving at least one portion of said message using one of information associated with said authorized sender, data in said sender account, information in the at least one storage area, and information associated with said message.

8. The IMPS according to claim 1, further comprising means for sending said message to said IMPS, wherein said sending means comprises a phone.

9. The IMPS according to claim 1, wherein said converting means comprises an automatic extraction means to extract text data from at least one portion of said message.

10. The IMPS according to claim 1, wherein said request is for an XML file which comprises either a reference to at least one portion of said message or at least a part of said message.

11. The IMPS according to claim 1, wherein said converting means adds one of:

at least a part of said message within an existing webpage, and

a reference for at least one portion of said message within the existing webpage.

12. The IMPS according to claim 1, wherein said converting means comprises a generator in support of an automatic generation of at least a portion of at least one XML file comprising either a reference to at least one portion of said message or at least a part of said message.

13. The IMPS according to claim 1, wherein said converting means adds one of:

at least a part of said message within an XML file, and

add a reference to at least one portion of said message within the XML file.

14. The IMPS according to claim 1, wherein said means for storing performs one of:

replacement of at least a part of a previous message with at least one portion of said message, and

addition of the one portion of said message to the previous message.

15. The IMPS according to claim 1, wherein said converting means embeds at least one portion of said message into a file with said second format.

16. The IMPS according to claim 1, wherein said converting means embeds at least one reference to at least one portion of said message into a file within said second format.

17. The IMPS according to claim 1, further comprising advertising means for automatically adding advertisements to:

a first webpage containing at least a part of said message, a second webpage with at least one reference to at least one portion of said message, a first XML file containing at least the part of said message, a second XML file with at least one reference to at least the one portion of said message, or within said message.

18. An Internet message publishing system (IMPS), comprising:

at least one sender account;

means for receiving a message over a network from a sender of said message;

means for identifying said sender of said message as an authorized sender based on information associated with said message in comparison to data in the sender account, wherein said identifying means further includes security means for implementing a security scheme with reference to data in the sender account and wherein said security scheme is dependent upon the format of said message;

means for storing said message in at least one storage area;

means for receiving a request for at least a portion of said message from a requestor, said request being made over the Internet;

means for retrieving at least the portion of said message from said storage area, in response to receiving said request; and

means for sending at least the portion of said message to said requestor over the Internet.

19. An Internet message publishing system (IMPS), comprising:

at least one sender account;

means for receiving a message over a network from a sender of said message, said message being in a first format;

means for identifying said sender of said message as an authorized sender based on information associated with said message in comparison to data in the sender account, wherein said identifying means further includes security means for implementing a security scheme with reference to data in the sender account;

means for converting said message from said first format to a second format;

means for storing said message in at least one storage area;

means for receiving a request for at least a portion of said message from a requestor, said request being made over the Internet;

means for retrieving at least the portion of said message from said storage area, in response to receiving said request; and

means for sending at least the portion of said message to said requestor over the Internet.