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Primary Examiner—Meng-Al T. An
Assistant Examiner—Kenneth Tang
(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Arent Fox PLLC
The system for transmitting and receiving electronic mail of the present invention, comprises: a text input means for entering a text of the electronic mail to be transmitted; an extracting means for extracting a character string to specify a place from the text inputted by the text input means; an adding means for adding information to the electronic mail, the information corresponding to the place specified by the extracted character string; a text display means for displaying the text in the electronic mail; and a map display means for displaying map information indicating the specified place corresponding to the information added to the electronic mail.
15 Claims, 9 Drawing Sheets
