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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ajay Jain, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus provide recipient control of the delivery of an electronic message. The sender of the message, which can be text, audio, video and multimedia, delivers the message to the recipient's carrier's optimally located mail server. Rather than sending the complete message, the sender's mail server transmits a short message containing in the header a mail server address and/or hyperlink where the message resides, along with the address and/or hyperlink of any applet needed to read the message. The recipient can then choose whether or not to receive the entire message.