Patent attributes
The present invention relates to an electronic mail (e-mail) delivery system and more particularly to a method and apparatus for selecting a specific e-mail message from a visual list of stored e-mail messages, selecting an advertisement from a plurality of advertisements stored in an associate database, and then downloading the selected e-mail message to a recipient's e-mail receiving device and inserting the selected advertisement into the e-mail message, preferably in the e-mail message header or between the header and body (text) or after the text, as it is downloaded to the e-mail receiving device which receives and displays the downloaded e-mail message with the inserted advertisement in response to receiving a selection signal from the e-mail receiving device indicating that the recipient wishes to read the selected e-mail message.
