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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5964833 | Pager enhanced keyboard and system A pager-enhanced keyboard connected to a subscriber's computer has a pager portion and a keyboard portion. An enhanced server connected to the Internet and adapted to collect e-mail and attachments for clients is also adapted to match incoming e-mail with... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5961590 | System and method for synchronizing electronic mail between a client site and a central site A system includes an e-mail engine which uses a proper protocol to retrieve an e-mail from a first mail store and to store the e-mail in one or more folder structures. Upon request, the first mail store may send configuration data indicating the proper pr... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5958005 | Electronic mail security A method, system, and product for communicating data text messages, such as E-Mail, between computers connected to a network while providing selectable degrees of security for each message. The methodology comprises the procedure of creating in the origin... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5958006 | Method and apparatus for communicating summarized data In a main embodiment, select and summary (S&S) indices (213, 228) are used to provide user flexibility in reviewing and requesting otherwise filtered data. Both the user's remote unit (201) and communication server (220) maintain S&S indices containing id... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5956688 | Electronic transaction apparatus and computer readable storage medium on which is recorded control program for executing format conversion in electronic transaction A relevance information setting unit imparts the same relevance code to related elements in a standard message to indicate a relevance. A mapping processing unit displays a standard message and a local message side by side on a display and while referring... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5956486 | Method and apparatus for monitoring multiple electronic mail systems A method for monitoring multiple electronic mail systems includes the steps of: a) configuring an e-mail system polling process on a user's machine; b) polling a number of e-mail systems from the user's machine; c) retrieving data from the e-mail systems ... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5951636 | Accessing a post office system from a client computer using applets Disclosed is a system for accessing a folder of messages in a mail server, such as an inbox folder, outbox folder, draft message folder, etc. This disclosed system is especially suited for "offline" type protocols, such as POP3. A client computer establis... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5951654 | System for processing cooperation signals by storing and executing the control part of the signal separately from the data part using pointer to link the two parts A system and a method for signal and data processing is disclosed wherein the signal format comprises at least one control information part and a data part. The system comprises a central processor system and a regional processor system with a number of r... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5951638 | Integrated multimedia messaging system An integrated messaging system uses existing messaging equipment to receive, store, retrieve and manage messages in media types and formats appropriate to each existing system using protocols which are specific to that system. Two or more systems are tigh... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5948066 | System and method for delivery of information over narrow-band communications links System and method for delivery of information over narrow-band communications links. The system has at least a browser (12), a mobile client (10), a fixed server (30) and an origin host (50). The browser (12) requests a resource. The mobile client (10) tr... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5948054 | Method and system for facilitating the exchange of information between human users in a networked computer system In a networked computer system including a customer computer associated with a human customer, one or more consultant computers associated with one or more human consultants, and a server computer, the human customer sends an information request to the se... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5948058 | Method and apparatus for cataloging and displaying e-mail using a classification rule preparing means and providing cataloging a piece of e-mail into multiple categories or classification types based on e-mail object information An electronic mail cataloging and retrieving system comprises an electronic mail communication unit, an electronic mail storage unit for storing electronic mails, a tray information storage unit for storing information on classification types used for cla... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5948059 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing multimedia messages in different servers An integrated messaging system uses existing messaging systems to receive, store, retrieve and manage messages in media types and formats appropriate to each existing system using protocols which are specific to that system. Two or more systems are tightl... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5944786 | Automatic notification of receipt of electronic mail (e-mail) via telephone system without requiring log-on to e-mail server The automatic e-mail notification system provides for the automatic notification of an e-mail recipient of the presence of e-mail in the recipient's e-mail box on a remote e-mail server. The automatic e-mail notification system comprises an e-mail server ... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5944787 | Method for automatically finding postal addresses from e-mail addresses An email mapper to identify sender's U.S. postal address by detecting in the sender's email address, email message, or the sender's posting whether the sender's name and address are identifiable in the signature line of the sender's email and searching on... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5941946 | System for storing message in a wide area network storage controlled by a sender and notifying intended recipients of the availability and the WAN address thereof A method for electronic communication using wide area network (WAN) storage and signalling capabilities. The method and apparatus provides for deposit of a message in message stores in the WAN, storage of the message such that the message is uniformly acc... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5938725 | Method and apparatus for determining destination address of electronic mail (e-mail) message from stored e-mail messages In an electronic mail transmitting/receiving apparatus, received electronic mails are stored in a storage apparatus, and when a key word is inputted from an input apparatus, an electronic mail containing this key word is retrieved from this storage appara... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5937162 | Method and apparatus for high volume e-mail delivery A high volume e-mail "newspaper" delivery system contains, for each customer, a personal configuration file containing the information resources that the customer would like e-mailed to his desktop. The configuration file is highly customizable, allowing ... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5937161 | Electronic message forwarding system A telecommunications system (100) includes a service provider node (116) that is capable of forwarding electronic mail messages addressed to a user of the service provider node. The forwarding process is controlled by a message transfer agent (202), a sub... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5937418 | Automatic wire copy data feed distribution system A system for presenting updated content on a networked computer receives communications such as those sent by a wire copy service. The system processes the communications, organizes the communications by subject matter, and creates title or summary files.... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5931908 | Visual object present within live programming as an actionable event for user selection of alternate programming wherein the actionable event is selected by human operator at a head end for distributed data and programming The present invention provides a method and apparatus for linking real-time data with audiovisual content to enable a user to make selections, manipulate data, and to execute functions interactively through an audiovisual display unit based upon audiovisu... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5931901 | Programmed music on demand from the internet A system and method for delivering programmed music and targeted advertising messages to Internet based subscribers includes a software controlled microprocessor based repository in which the dossiers of a plurality of the subscribers are stored and updat... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5928325 | Method of dynamically establishing communication of incoming messages to one or more user devices presently available to an intended recipient A method of dynamically establishing real-time communication of incoming messages to one or more user devices presently available to an intended recipient. This is accomplished by intelligently coupling a central agent to a plurality of communication netw... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5930479 | Communications addressing system A system and method is provided for sending and receiving authorized messages from a sender to a recipient in a network. The method and system makes use of a channelized address to send the message from the sender to the recipient. The channelized address... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5923845 | Integrated electronic information system An electronic system using collectors, rosters, notifiers, and links provides a uniform system for communications, information management and human organization. Since the collectors have unique addresses, each collector belonging to a user can be used as... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5923846 | Method of uploading a message containing a file reference to a server and downloading a file from the server using the file reference A system for posting and downloading messages and files from a bulletin board system is described. The system allows a user to retrieve a message from a bulletin board system and then selectively download files which are represented within the message as ... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5922045 | Method and apparatus for providing bookmarks when listening to previously recorded audio programs An audio service monitors the progress of a user as he or she proceeds through the service. The location in the service at the time of termination is detected and correlated with user and service identification information. As a result, a bookmark is crea... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5923848 | System and method for resolving names in an electronic messaging environment In an electronic mail system environment, a system and method for automatically checking recipients' names, providing message flags, providing custom forms, and providing an autoresponse feature. Recipients' names are resolved in the background, while the... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5917489 | System and method for creating, editing, and distributing rules for processing electronic messages A desktop information manager includes a "Rules Wizard" for creating and editing rules for processing electronic messages. The Rules Wizard allows creation of rules in a step-by-step manner by selecting natural language phrases representing conditions, ac... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5915095 | Method and apparatus for balancing processing requests among a plurality of servers based on measurable characteristics off network node and common application Apparatus and methods are provided for balancing a plurality of received processing requests among a plurality of servers of a processing system network. At least a subset of the processing requests are received from one or more of a plurality of network ... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913032 | System and methods for automatically distributing a particular shared data object through electronic mail A computer system having a facility for concurrently sharing objects or resources is described. The system includes a publish-and-subscribe facility or "Object Exchange," for facilitating sharing among workgroups. When a data object is "published" by a us... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5906656 | Method and system for providing actions by way of electronic distributions An electronic mail object on a data processing system contains a request that the recipient perform an action. In addition, the electronic mail object contains an action or command for carrying out the request. Upon receipt of the electronic mail object, ... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5907677 | Method for establishing anonymous communication links A method for establishing anonymous communication links comprises the steps of: identifying a plurality of subscribers; assigning a code to each of the plurality of subscribers; accessing a proprietary directory of the subscribers containing the code of e... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5905862 | Automatic web site registration with multiple search engines A method, apparatus, and storage medium for registering a first application with one or more task applications. According to one embodiment, a set of first application characterization data is provided. Map data for the one or more task applications is st... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5905863 | Finding an e-mail message to which another e-mail message is a response Current tools for processing e-mail and other messages do not adequately recognize and manipulate threads, i.e., conversations among two or more people carried out by exchange of messages. The present invention utilizes the textual context and characteris... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5905495 | Communication system using electronic mail A communication system which can communicate with a party user even when an originator user of a communication terminal does not know the terminal address of a communication terminal of the party user with whom the originator user wants to communicate. Wh... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5903726 | System using portion of a short message payload to identify short message service types and delivering the message if user subscribes to the services A system and method for providing enhanced short-message service options in PCS systems. The generic short-message service is split into unbundled short-message service applications (e.g., emergency messaging, voice mail alert, teleadmin, etc.). Each of t... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5895471 | Providing a directory of frequently used hyperlinks on a remote server Access to hypermedia servers connected to networks such as the Internet can be provided through mobile devices such as wireless telephones. Hypermedia links such as Uniform Resource Locators (URL) are used to identify and control access to resources on th... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5896504 | System having facsimile devices receiving E-mails from terminal computers by monitoring mail boxes associated with the devices in predetermined intervals to detect arrival of mail An information processing system includes a computer network connecting a number of terminal computers to a host computer, an administrative computer connected to the computer network, and a plurality of facsimile devices connected to the administrative c... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5893091 | Multicasting with key words A method for distributing timely information over a computer network where a Timely Information Server collects and organizes information from Timely Information Providers and then broadcasts the organized information to endusers in the form of an alerts ... | 04/06/1999 |
