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United States Patent

6065048

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Inventor(s)

Higley; Thomas (Fort Collins, CO)

Abstract

A method and system for sending and receiving 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 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 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 and a user may "click" on the URL to look up the information corresponding to the URL. If the received document is of the text type, the text may be converted to the HTML format and the HTML format document displayed so that a user may "click" on the URL in order to look up the information corresponding to the URL without the need to type in the URL address.

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Claims

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What is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A method of receiving data and information at a computer, comprising the steps of:

receiving at least one message of a predetermined type over a network from a first computer system, said at least one message includes at least one reference to a predetermined location at a predetermined computer system;

decoding said at least one message at a second computer system in response to said predetermined type by retrieving information from said predetermined location automatically, without requiring user interaction.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein said network utilizes a TCP/IP protocol.

3. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the step of decoding said at least one message occurs in a single application process.

4. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein said predetermined type comprises a uniform resource locator type and the step of decoding said at least one message further comprises automatic dereferencing of a uniform resource locator contained in said at least one message.

5. Method as recited in claim 1 wherein said predetermined type comprises a markup language type and the step of decoding said at least one message further comprises automatic dereferencing of at least one uniform resource locator co