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A system for creation of an image display such as an electronic postcard. The system interacts with a user to create and configure the display. The user provides the image data to the system and optionally specifies a message and addressee for the image display. The system creates the display, compr

A system for creation of an image display such as an electronic postcard. The system interacts with a user to create and configure the display. The user provides the image data to the system and optionally specifies a message and addressee for the image display. The system creates the display, comprising a mixture of image and textual data, and sends a notification including identification of the display to a specified addressee, for instance, the recipient of the postcard. The addressee can then request receipt of the display from the system via the identification information sent by the system.

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A system for creation of an image display such as an electronic postcard. The system interacts with a user to create and configure the display. The user provides the image data to the system and optionally specifies a message and addressee for the image display. The system creates the display, compr

A system for creation of an image display such as an electronic postcard. The system interacts with a user to create and configure the display. The user provides the image data to the system and optionally specifies a message and addressee for the image display. The system creates the display, comprising a mixture of image and textual data, and sends a notification including identification of the display to a specified addressee, for instance, the recipient of the postcard. The addressee can then request receipt of the display from the system via the identification information sent by the system. im 6, wherein said detecting, rerouting, maintaining and assigning steps are performed automatically, and wherein all communications sessions are rerouted to the primary network communications path without disruption of the communications sessions. 8. The method of claim 6, wherein the communications network is a System Network Architecture network operating with Advanced Peer-to-Peer networking and High Performance Routing and wherein said rerouting step comprises: sending a quiesce secondary link signal to the High Performance Routing controller that reroutes existing High Performance Routing sessions to the primary network communications path from the secondary network communications path; and rerouting existing CP-CP and CPSVRMGR communications sessions to the primary network communications path from the secondary network communications path; and wherein said assigning step comprises assigning new communications sessions to the primary network communications path if said detecting step detects the availability of the primary network communications path by sending a quiesce secondary link signal to Topology and Route Selection. 9. The method of claim 8, wherein the primary network communications path carries only APPN traffic. 10. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of deactivating the secondary network communications path once all the non-transferable communications sessions are terminated. 11. A method of assigning communications sessions between primary and secondary network communications paths, the method comprising the steps of: identifying a failure in the primary network communications path; activating the secondary network communications path; detecting the availability of the primary network communications path; then assigning new communications sessions to the primary network communications path; non-disruptively rerouting existing transferable communications sessions to the primary network communications path from the secondary network communications path; and maintaining non-transferable communications sessions over the secondary network communications path until the non-transferable communications sessions are terminated. 12. The method of claim 11, wherein the step of rerouting existing transferable communications sessions comprises the steps of: rerouting non-disruptively reroutable communications sessions to the primary network communications path; terminating existing non-disruptively terminable communications sessions on the secondary network communications path after detecting the availability of the primary network communications path; and reinitiating the non-disruptively terminable communications sessions on the primary network communications path. 13. The method of claim 11, wherein said identifying, activating, detecting, assigning, rerouting and maintaining steps are performed automatically, and wherein all communications sessions are terminated or rerouted to the primary network communications path without any disruption of the communications sessions. 14. The method of claim 13, further comprising the step of deactivating the secondary communications path once all the non-transferable communications sessions are terminated. 15. A system for reassigning communications sessions to a primary network communications path from a secondary network communications path, the system comprising: means for detecting the availability of the primary network communications path; means for non-disruptively rerouting existing transferable communications sessions to the primary network communications path from the secondary network communications path; and means for maintaining non-transferable communications sessions over the secondary network communications path until the non-transferable communications sessions are terminated. 16. The system of claim 15, wherein said means for rerouting existing transferable communications sessions comprises: means for rerouting