Title :
The BERKOM multimedia-mail teleservice
Author :
Hofrichter, K. ; Moeller, E. ; Scheller, A. ; Schurmann, G.
Author_Institution :
Nat. Res. Center for Comput. Sci. & Inf. Technol., Res. Inst. for Open Commun. Syst., Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
A multimedia-mail teleservice based on CCITT Recommendation X.400 is under development within the BERKOM Project funded by the German PTT. An additional exchange mechanism complements the electronic mail´s inherent store-and-forward mechanism in order to allow the resolution of references to message content, which may be placed within a message rather than the content itself. The traditional text exchange is being enriched by supporting multimedia information in the form of standardized text, still and moving images, audio, and documents. Possible future developments are discussed
Keywords :
electronic mail; multimedia systems; BERKOM Project; CCITT Recommendation X.400; German PTT; exchange mechanism; multimedia-mail teleservice; store-and-forward; Asynchronous communication; Computer science; Electronic mail; Image coding; Image storage; Information technology; Internet; Multimedia systems; Postal services; Prototypes;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1993., Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Future Trends of
Conference_Location :
Lisbon
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-4430-3
DOI :
10.1109/FTDCS.1993.344180
