Abstract: An electronic mail system includes a plurality of terminals, a business processing system connected to the plural terminals for effecting a business processing so as to output a result of the processing as output data, a transmitter mail box connected to the business processing system for storing a list containing information for each output data to specify terminals as receiving points which receive the output data, and a receiver mail box connected to the business processing system for storing the output data for each receiving point specified by the list. The output data in the receiver mail box is selectively outputted to the terminal in response to a request from the terminal as the receiving point.

Abstract: A data distribution processing system and a data distribution processing method in the system including a data processor having a memory capable of separately storing data display formats and corresponding data and a plurality of terminals each having a memory capable of storing data display formats. The data processor beforehand stores the data display formats and delivers the display formats to one of the terminals for storage in that terminal's memory. The data processor sends, in response to a request for data associated with the data display format from the terminal, data related to the data display format in the processor's memory to the terminal requesting the data. The terminal sends, in response to an entered specification of a data display format, a request for data associated with that data display format to the data processor, reads the data display format from its own memory together with the data sent form the data processor in response to the request.

Abstract: In an information processing method and system including a secondary storage, a primary storage for storing data blocks of the secondary storage and a directory containing control information for the data blocks stored in the primary storage, the directory is consulted to determine whether a desired data block is in the primary storage, and if it is, the data block is read from the primary storage. The control information of the directory contains pairs of addresses on the primary storage of the data blocks stored in the primary storage and the addresses on the secondary storage.