Processing messages which include an address to further information
CA 2250853 C · Owner: Netdelivery Corporation · Inventors: Higley, Thomas K.
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A method and system for sending (404) and receiving (406) Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) in electronic mail over the Internet. An electronic mail document containing a URL may have several different types. If the message type (408) indicates a URL, when the received URL type document is read or browsed using a multimedia Internet browser the URL is looked up so that the , information corresponding to the URL is displayed (420) without necessarily displaying any portion of the received message. If the received document is of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) type the document may be displayed (430) , and a user may "click" on the URL to look up the information corresponding to …
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- Filed April 2, 1996 and granted January 18, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 2, 2016.
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