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US 7,606,863 B2Granted
E-mail server
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorsShino Ogasawara, Takashi Miyamoto
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Abstract
E-mail transmitted from a sender terminal together with an attached image file is received by a mail server. The latter inserts a tag in the header of the image file that has been attached to the e-mail. The tag includes the name and telephone number, etc., of the sender, which have been stored in a database that archives personal information. The image file in which the sender name, etc., has been inserted is attached to the e-mail in place of the image file that was attached to the received e-mail, and this e-mail is then transmitted to the terminal of a receiving party.
Claims8
An e-mail server computing device, comprising:
- an e-mail receiving unit receiving e-mail, to which an image file has been attached, transmitted from an e-mail transmission-source device to the e-mail server computing device;
- a sender-information archiving database storing information relating to a sender who transmits e-mail using the transmission-source device;
- an image processing unit appending information relating to the sender that has been stored in said sender-information archiving database to the image file that has been attached to the e-mail received by said e-mail receiving unit;
- e-mail reconstructing means for attaching the image file, to which the information relating to the sender has been appended by said image processing unit, to the e-mail in place of the image file that was attached to the e-mail received by said e-mail receiving unit;
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- an e-mail transmitting unit transmitting the e-mail, which has been obtained by the e-mail reconstructing means and to which the image file having the appended information relating to the sender has been attached, from the e-mail server computing device to the e-mail transmission-source device.
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An e-mail server computing device, comprising:
- an e-mail receiving unit receiving e-mail, to which an image file has been attached, transmitted from an e-mail transmission-source device to the e-mail server computing device;
- an information archiving database storing one or a plurality of items of information in correspondence with a transmission-source e-mail address contained in e-mail transmitted from the transmission-source device;
- an image processing unit appending at least any one item of information to the image file that has been attached to the e-mail received by said e-mail receiving unit, the information being from among the information that has been stored in said information archiving database in correspondence with the transmission-source e-mail address contained in the e-mail received by said e-mail receiving unit;
- e-mail reconstructing means attaching the image file, to which the information has been appended by said image processing unit, to the e-mail in place of the image file that was attached to the e-mail received by said e-mail receiving unit;
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- an e-mail transmitting unit transmitting the e-mail, which has been obtained by said e-mail reconstructing means and to which the image file having the appended information has been attached, from the e-mail server computing device to the e-mail transmission-source device.
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A computer-readable medium, storing instructions, executed by a processor, to perform a method for causing an e-mail server to relay e-mail transmitted from a transmission-source device and received at a transmission-destination device, the method comprising:
- receiving e-mail, to which an image file has been attached, transmitted from an e-mail transmission-source device;
- storing information relating to a sender who transmits e-mail using the transmission-source device;
- an image processing unit for appending information relating to the sender who has been stored in said sender-information archiving database to the image file that has been attached to the e-mail received by said e-mail receiving unit;
- attaching the image file, to which the information relating to the sender has been appended by said image processing unit, to the e-mail in place of the image file that was attached to the e-mail received by said e-mail receiving unit;
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- transmitting the e-mail, which has been obtained by the e-mail reconstructing means and to which the image file having the appended information relating to the sender has been attached, from the e-mail server computing device to the e-mail transmission-source device.
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A computer-readable medium, storing instructions, executed by a processor, to perform a method for causing an e-mail server to relay e-mail transmitted from a transmission-source device and received at a transmission-destination device, the method comprising:
- receiving e-mail, to which an image file has been attached, transmitted from an e-mail transmission-source device;
- storing one or a plurality of items of information in correspondence with a transmission-source e-mail address contained in e-mail transmitted from the transmission-source device;
- appending at least any one item of information to the image file that has been attached to the e-mail received by said e-mail receiving unit, the information being from among the information that has been stored in said information archiving database in correspondence with the transmission-source e-mail address contained in the e-mail received by said e-mail receiving unit;
- attaching the image file, to which the information has been appended by said image processing unit, to the e-mail in place of the image file that was attached to the e-mail received by said e-mail receiving unit;
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- transmitting the e-mail, which has been obtained by said e-mail reconstructing means and to which the image file having the appended information has been attached, from the e-mail server computing device to the e-mail transmission-source device.
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An e-mail server computing device, comprising:
- a memory, storing a set of instructions;
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- a processor, executing the stored set of instructions, to perform a method comprising:
- receiving e-mail, to which an image file has been attached, transmitted from an e-mail transmission-source device to the e-mail server computing device;
- storing information relating to a sender who transmits e-mail using the transmission-source device;
- appending information relating to the sender that has been stored in said sender-information archiving database to the image file that has been attached to the e-mail received by said e-mail receiving unit;
- attaching the image file, to which the information relating to the sender has been appended by said image processing unit, to the e-mail in place of the image file that was attached to the e-mail received by said e-mail receiving unit;
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- transmitting the e-mail, which has been obtained by the e-mail reconstructing means and to which the image file having the appended information relating to the sender has been attached, from the e-mail server computing device to the e-mail transmission-source device.
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An e-mail server computing device, comprising:
- a memory, storing a set of instructions;
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- a processor, executing the stored set of instructions, to perform a method comprising:
- receiving e-mail, to which an image file has been attached, transmitted from an e-mail transmission-source device to the e-mail server computing device;
- storing one or a plurality of items of information in correspondence with a transmission-source e-mail address contained in e-mail transmitted from the transmission-source device;
- appending at least any one item of information to the image file that has been attached to the e-mail received by said e-mail receiving unit, the information being from among the information that has been stored in said information archiving database in correspondence with the transmission-source e-mail address contained in the e-mail received by said e-mail receiving unit;
- attaching the image file, to which the information has been appended by said image processing unit, to the e-mail in place of the image file that was attached to the e-mail received by said e-mail receiving unit;
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- transmitting the e-mail, which has been obtained by said e-mail reconstructing means and to which the image file having the appended information has been attached, from the e-mail server computing device to the e-mail transmission-source device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.