| 摘要 |
The present invention provides an e-mail-based chat system that is available from a terminal without a push architecture and can be used with an existing server. The invention relates to a relay apparatus to be installed on communication lines between terminals and servers consisting of a transmission server and a retrieval server. The relay apparatus puts on hold data retrieval requests received from the terminals without relaying the data retrieval requests to the retrieval server and withholds responses to the terminals. When the relay apparatus receives chat message data from a terminal, it relays the data to the transmission server. Right after the relaying of the data, the relay apparatus acquires the data from the transmission server via the retrieval server and creates response data from the acquired data, thus responding to the data retrieval requests on hold with the response data.
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