Method of communication by e-mail

• US 20040126747A1
• Filed: 08/18/2003
• Published: 07/01/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Eighting
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Eighting
• Inventors: Satou, Shouji, Fujisawa, Tomonori
• Granted Patent: US 7,171,154 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/307R
• 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:

acquiring ID code assigned to an anthropomorphized object such as a stuffed toy or the like and a mail address for an owner of the anthropomorphized object; and

sending data related to said ID code as an electronic mail to the owner.

2. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein the data related to said ID code includes a conversational text including characters, signs, graphics, voices, or sounds.

3. The communication method according to claim 2, wherein personal attribute information for said owner is acquired together with the owner'"'"'s mail address.

4. The communication method according to claim 3, wherein the mail with said personal attribute information added thereto is sent.

5. The communication method according to claim 4, wherein news and/or advertisement are inserted in said conversational text.

6. The communication method according to claim 4, wherein news and/or advertisement are sent together with said conversational text as an electronic mail.