Video mail system capable of transferring large quantities of data without hampering other data transmissions
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United States of America Patent
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Jun 15, 1999
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Oct 19, 1995
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Oct 19, 1994
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In a data transfer system, a transmission terminal is provided with a transmission unit and a divisional transmission unit. A server station is provided with mailboxes, a transmission/reception management unit, a divisional reception unit and a divisional transmission unit. A reception terminal is provided with a reception,/reconstruction unit and a divisional reception unit. In the transmission of video mail from the transmission unit (or from the transmission/reception management unit) to the transmission/reception management unit (or to the reception/reconstruction unit), audio and a frame (still picture) representative of a motion picture, among data contained in the video mail, are first sent by an ordinary method. Video data in the video mail are thereafter transmitted from the divisional transmission unit to the divisional reception unit by a plurality of separate operations. Such a construction can realize data transfer of the video mail which relieves traffic in multimedia data transmission and also copes with the urgency of the mail while making the best use of an existing network.
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