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

fYear

1997

fDate

28 Apr-2 May 1997

Firstpage

494

Lastpage

498

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Computing on the Information Superhighway, 1997. HPC Asia '97

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7901-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPC.1997.592197

Filename

592197