TIME SENSITIVE ELECTRONIC MAIL

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and system for delivering e-mails to addressees at almost the same time. SOLUTION: The method of delivering time sensitive e-mail includes the following steps of: creating an e-mail message for time-sensitive delivery to a multiplicity of addressees' mailboxes on e-mail servers; inserting in the e-mail message a data element identifying the message as a message for time-sensitive delivery; assigning delivery time constraints to the message; delivering the message, in accordance with the time constraints and for temporary storage outside the mailboxes, to e-mail servers having addressees' mailboxes; and instructing the servers to place the message in all addressees' mailboxes at approximately the same time. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI