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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:
Mar. 20, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2001
Wei Yen, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
John Princen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Wei Yen, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
John Princen, Cupertino, CA (US);
BroadOn Communications Corp., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a method and system for delivering relatively large documents (such as for example media documents) with reduced use of time and other resources. Relatively large documents sent by a sender to a recipient in an email message are delivered separately from the email message, asynchronously from delivery of the email message or its presentation to the recipient, and using an out-of-band technique separate from email message delivery. This provides for relatively rapid and reliable delivery of the email message, separate reliable delivery of the media document, and presentation of the media document to the recipient without further sending delay. Pre-probing of destination devices may occur to determine a preferred set of characteristics to manage delivery.