Method For Verifying Inclusion Of Attachments To Electronic Mail Messages
A method and system are provided for tagging, indexing, searching, retrieving, manipulating, and editing video images on a wide area network such as the Internet. A first set of methods is provided for enabling users to add bookmarks to multimedia files, such as movies, and audio files, such as music. The multimedia bookmark facilitates the searching of portions or segments of multimedia files, particularly when used in conjunction with a search engine. Additional methods are provided that reformat a video image for use on a variety of devices that have a wide range of resolutions by selecting some material (in the case of smaller resolutions) or more material (in the case of larger resolutions) from the same multimedia file. Still more methods are provided for interrogating images that contain textual information (in graphical form) so that the text may be copied to a tag or bookmark that can itself be indexed and searched to facilitate later retrieval via a search engine.
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71 . A method for verifying inclusion of attachments to electronic mail messages, the method comprising:
scanning the electronic mail message for at least one indicator of an attachment to be included;
determining whether at least one attachment to the electronic mail message is present upon detection of the at least one indicator of an attachment to be included; and
displaying a reminder to a user in the event at least one indicator of an attachment to be included is found but no attachment is determined to be present.
72 . The method of claim 71 further comprising comparing contents of the electronic mail message with language settings designated by the user to determine whether at least one indicator of an attachment to be included is present.
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