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

fYear

1993

fDate

22-24 Sep 1993

Firstpage

23

Lastpage

30

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1993., Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Future Trends of

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4430-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTDCS.1993.344180

Filename

344180