MHEGAM-a multimedia messaging system

MHEGAM (MHEC-1 Advanced Mail) is a complete multimedia messaging system for the creation, exchange, and restitution of multimedia messages that express spatial and temporal synchronization among their components. MHEGAM can be based on the standard messaging systems X.420 or MIME. We present the multimedia extensions MHECAM-X.420 and MHEGAM-MIME and discuss the multimedia message format and architecture components for both systems.