Appeal No. 1996-3281
Application 07/895,467
informed of another time which would be capable for
transmission. This enables the sender to correct the
situation as he deems appropriate, rather than letting the
system decide what to do.
In summary, the invention recognizes that a passed
transmission starting time is an error that the sender should
be able to address, rather than taking an automatic, and
possibly undesirable action.
Independent claims 6 is reproduced as follows:
6. A message processing method for performing an
exchange of information between a sending party's terminal
located in one time zone having a respective local time and at
least one receiving party's terminal located in a different
time zone having a respective local time, the two time zones
having a time zone differentially therebetween, comprising the
steps of:
manually designating at the sending party's terminal a
first local transmission starting time in terms of the local
time at the receiving party's location;
automatically calculating the time zone differential
between the local time at the sending party's location and the
local time at the receiving party's location;
automatically converting the first local transmission
starting time into a second local transmission starting time
at the sending party's location, based on the calculated time
zone differential;
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