Title :
Development of multimedia E-mail system providing an integrated message view
Author :
Dokko, Seh-Joon ; Yun, Sung-Hyun ; Kim, Tai-Yun
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea
fDate :
28 Apr-2 May 1997
Abstract :
E-mail is the most popular method for information exchange through communication networks. As multimedia technologies are developed rapidly, networks need to support multimedia data. In order to transmit multimedia messages, MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) was proposed, but a multimedia message consisting of different media is not viewed as an integrated form. In this paper, a multimedia E-mail system has been developed according to the MIME standard in order to solve the limitations of multimedia message transmission. A redefined HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) syntax is applied to the E-mail system for the purpose of viewing a multimedia message as an integrated form. It allows users to understand a message better. The proposed E-mail system also provides convenient functions of message authoring and display for users
Keywords :
Internet; authoring systems; electronic mail; electronic messaging; hypermedia; multimedia communication; page description languages; HTML syntax; Hypertext Markup Language; MIME standard; Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions; communication networks; information exchange; integrated message view; message authoring function; message display function; multimedia electronic mail system; multimedia message transmission; user message understanding; Communication networks; Computer science; Electronic mail; Encoding; Image converters; Internet; Multimedia systems; Postal services; Transportation; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
High Performance Computing on the Information Superhighway, 1997. HPC Asia '97
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7901-8
DOI :
10.1109/HPC.1997.592197
