| 摘要 |
The present invention discloses a method and system for transmitting electronic mail messages containing multimedia elements that reduces bandwidth usage and transmission time. The present invention comprises embedding one or more multimedia elements within an electronic mail message where each multimedia element is identified by a globally unique identifier. Each multimedia element contained within the electronic mail message is replaced with a reference to its globally unique identifier. The electronic mail message is transmitted to an intended recipient and the intended recipient replaces each globally unique identifier contained in the electronic mail message with the corresponding multimedia element upon receipt. The method further comprises transmitting to a smart server a listing of the globally unique identifiers for each multimedia element contained within the electronic mail message, the smart server storing multimedia elements indexed by globally unique identifier, searching to identify globally unique identifiers contained in the transmitted listing that are stored on the smart server, and transmitting to the smart server all multimedia elements not identified by the search as being stored on the smart server. The multimedia elements are retrieved by the intended recipient from the smart server and each globally unique identifier contained in the electronic mail message is replaced with its corresponding multimedia element. |
