| 摘要 |
A multimedia message transmission system includes a workstation in communication with a plurality of data communications media such as E-mail, facsimile machines, and printers, which serve as communication destinations. The user further has access to a list of names or addresses. Each name or address designates a recipient at one of the aforesaid communication destinations, and has associated information which indicates the destination and transmission medium available to the user for communicating with the given name or address. The user may specify one or more data files to be sent to recipients at one or more of the addresses within the user's address list. The data files may be in one of a variety of data formats such as text data format (e.g., ASCII), image data format (e.g., PCX/DCX), page description language (PDL), and application specific data format (e.g., Lotus 1-2-3R). The multimedia transmission system of the present invention automatically analyzes the data formats of each of the transmitted data files and converts the transmitted files into data formats compatible with the transmission medium of the selected destination. |
