Method and system to create, transmit, receive and process information, including an address to further information
DC CAFCFirst Claim
1. A method of communicating between computers, comprising the steps of:
- creating a message at a first computer, said message including a reference to a predetermined location;
transmitting, by the first computer, said message to a second location; and
receiving said message by a computer at the second location;
decoding said message by the computer at the second location by retrieving data from the predetermined location, automatically by a single application, without requiring user interaction, into the computer at the second location.
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Abstract
A method and system for sending and receiving Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) in electronic mail over the Internet. An electronic mail document containing a URL may have several different types. If the message type indicates a URL, when the received URL type document is read or browsed using a multimedia Internet browser, the URL is looked up so that the information corresponding to the URL is displayed without necessarily displaying any portion of the received message. If the received document is of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) type, the document may be displayed and a user may "click" on the URL to look up the information corresponding to the URL. If the received document is of the text type, the text may be converted to the HTML format and the HTML format document displayed so that a user may "click" on the URL in order to look up the information corresponding to the URL without the need to type in the URL address.
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41 Claims
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1. A method of communicating between computers, comprising the steps of:
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creating a message at a first computer, said message including a reference to a predetermined location; transmitting, by the first computer, said message to a second location; and receiving said message by a computer at the second location; decoding said message by the computer at the second location by retrieving data from the predetermined location, automatically by a single application, without requiring user interaction, into the computer at the second location. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of processing, by a computer at a second location, a message created by a computer at a first location, the message including a reference to a predetermined location, and which was transmitted to the computer at the second location, comprising the steps of:
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receiving said message by the computer at the second location; decoding said message by the computer at the second location by retrieving data from the predetermined location, automatically by a single application, without requiring user interaction. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A computer implemented method for transmitting a message to a receiving computer which examines a type of the message and looks up an address to a predetermined location contained within the message if the message is determined to be of a type which indicates that the message contains an address, comprising the steps of:
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encoding a message into a format which indicates that a type of the message is of a format which contains an address to a predetermined location and contains the address to the predetermined location without including data corresponding to the predetermined location; and transmitting the encoded message over a network to the receiving computer. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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21. A computer system, comprising:
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a first computer; and a second computer connected to the first computer via a network; said first computer including; means for creating a message including a reference to a predetermined location; and means for transmitting, by the first computer, said message to a second location; said second computer including; means for receiving said message; and means for decoding said message by retrieving data from the predetermined location without a user typing the reference to the predetermined location into the computer at the second location. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A computer, located at a second location, for processing a message created by a transmitting computer at a first location, the message including a reference to a predetermined location, said computer comprising:
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means for receiving said message; and means, connected to the means for receiving, for decoding said message by retrieving data from the predetermined location without a user of said computer typing the reference to the predetermined location. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A computer for transmitting a message to a receiving computer which examines a type of the message and looks up an address to a predetermined location contained within the message if the message is determined to be of a type which indicates that the message contains an address, comprising:
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means for encoding a message into a format which indicates that a type of the message is of a format which contains an address to a predetermined location and contains the address to the predetermined location without including data corresponding to the predetermined location; and means for transmitting the encoded message over a network to the receiving computer. - View Dependent Claims (40)
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41. A method of communicating between computers, comprising the steps of:
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sending a message over a network, said message includes at least one reference to a predetermined location at a first computer system; receiving said message at a second computer system; and decoding said message by retrieving data from said predetermined location automatically, without requiring user interaction.
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