A system for notifying a destination terminal that electronic mail has reached a host computer

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5293250
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07850969

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A mail-receive noticing system and method and provided for automatically notifying a destination terminal of a fact that an electronic mail reaches a host computer. A mail-sending terminal includes a mail-receiving notice instructing device for accepting a mail-receiving notice instruction of a sender on the sending terminal given depending upon urgency or importance level of the mail and an information sending device for sending mail-receiving notice instructing information generated based on the accepted mail-receiving notice instruction, together with a sending signal of an electronic mail to a host computer. The host computer includes a device for receiving the mail-receiving notice instructing information from a sending terminal and processing devices for generating a mail-receiving notice indication based on the received mail-receiving notice instructing information and sending the same to a receiving terminal. The destination terminal includes a mail-receive noticing device actuated by the received mail-receiving notice indication for noticing that an electronic mail reaches the host computer to a user in an informing fashion different along urgency or importance level of the mail instructed by the sender.

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HITACHI LTD A CORPORATION OF JAPAN6 KANDA SURUGADAI 4-CHOME CHIYODA-KU TOKYO

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hirosawa, Toshio Machida, JP 45 1845
Okumura, Shigemi Kiyose, JP 3 393

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