Method of communication by e-mail

• US 7,171,154 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2002
• Issued: 01/30/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Eighting
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Eighting
• Inventors: Satou, Shouji, Fujisawa, Tomonori
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng; Joe H.
• Application Number:
  US10/468,209
• Publication Number:
  US 20040126747A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,792 Days
• Field of Search: 434/185, 434/307.R, 434/308, 434/365, 434/369, 434/393, 463/1, 463 30- 42, 446/175, 446/268, 446/397, 704/270, 709/206, 709/217, 725/153
• US Class Current: 434/307.00R
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

The present invention provides an electronic mail communication method via a stuffed toy. At a mail center, a mail address for an owner of a stuffed toy is acquired together with ID code assigned to the stuffed toy, and data related to the ID code is transmitted as an electronic mail to the owner. The electronic mail is based on a conversational text including characters, signs, graphics, voices, or sounds, and the owner can enjoy communications with the stuffed toy by overlapping the images provided through the communications with an image of the stuffed toy at the owner'"'"'s hand.

Claims

1. A communication method comprising the steps of:

obtaining an ID code of an anthropomorphized object;

providing, to a provider, the ID code assigned to the anthropomorphized object, a mail address of an owner of the anthropomorphized object, and personal attribute information of the owner; and

sending, to the owner of the anthropomorphized object from the provider, an electronic mail as the anthropomorphized object based on the personal attribute information of the owner.

2. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein the electronic mail includes a conversational text including characters, signs, graphics, voices, or sounds.

3. The communication method according to claim 2, wherein at least one of news and advertisement is inserted in said conversational text.

4. The communication method according to claim 2, wherein at least one of news and advertisement is sent together with said conversational text as the electronic mail.

5. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein the electronic mail includes a message as if the anthropomorphized object wrote.

6. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein said provider includes an anthropomorphizing table having therein information of the anthropomorphized object, a user information table having therein personal information of the owner, and a standard text table having standard examples, said electronic mail being selected from the standard text table based on the anthropomorphizing table and user information table.

7. The communication method according to claim 6, wherein said electronic mail includes a conversational sentence.