KR20020060385A - Business method for providing e-mail information by short message service and computer readable medium having stored thereon computer executable instruction for performing the method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for notifying E-mal using an SMS(Short Message Service) is provided to receive contents of an electronic mail received in an E-mail server of a user in a wireless terminal of the user as a short message service by setting an environment of contents of the electronic mail into information necessary for the user. CONSTITUTION: A user connects to a user environment setting database through the Internet for receiving a service(S501) and sets a user environment(S502). Information set in the above stage(S502) is stored in a user environment setting information database. When new mail received in the user is converted into a short message service according to the set environment information. If new mail is received(S503), E-mail information with respect to the new mail is converted into a text for a short message service in accordance with the environment information stored in the user environment setting information database set by the user(S504). The converted text is transmitted to a wireless terminal of the user through a wireless mobile communication network(S505), and the service process is terminated(S506).

Description

BUSINESS METHOD FOR PROVIDING E-MAIL INFORMATION BY SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREON COMPUTER EXECUTABLE INSTRUCTION FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD }

The present invention relates to an electronic mail notification method using a short message service and a computer readable recording medium containing a program capable of implementing the same. More specifically, the contents of the electronic mail received by the user according to an environment set by the user are described. The present invention relates to an e-mail notification method using a short service that extracts a short service to a user's wireless terminal.

The conventional e-mail notification method using a short text service is a method of transmitting information such as an e-mail sender, an e-mail title, e-mail sending time, e-mail contents, etc. in a preset message format in a mail system.

However, the short message service has a limited amount of data that can be transmitted at one time. In particular, the short message service for Push for direct access to the wireless Internet service used by the mobile carrier includes a URL for accessing the wireless Internet service. The data capacity to send e-mail related information is further reduced. Therefore, there is a need to limit the amount of information transmission, such as e-mail account and subject.

The user of the e-mail service receives the information on the e-mail with a limited amount of information. In this case, the e-mail information items, the display order, and the display amount of the e-mail information can be received only in a form determined by the e-mail system. There was a ham.

The present invention was conceived to solve such a conventional problem, and the environment is set up with the information necessary for the user to receive the contents of the e-mail received by the user's e-mail server and received by the short-term service by the user's wireless terminal. An object of the present invention is to provide an e-mail notification method and a recording medium using a short message service.

1 is a diagram illustrating a network configuration of an e-mail notification method using a short message service (SMS) according to the present invention.

2 is a block diagram illustrating a procedure for converting received e-mail into short service text according to user preference information.

3 is a configuration diagram of data fields in a user basic information database server constructed by a service provider according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a configuration diagram of data fields in a user preference information database server constructed by a service provider according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a front view of a wireless terminal displaying a short service according to the prior art.

6A is a diagram of a wireless terminal display window that receives a short message according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

6B is a diagram of a wireless terminal display window that receives a short message according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a flowchart illustrating an e-mail notification procedure using a short message service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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10 ... wireless terminals 20 ... wired terminals

30 ... Internet 40 ... Short service system

50 ... Wireless communication receiver 100 ... User basic information database

110.User preference information database

120 ... E-mail server related function system

In order to achieve the above object, an e-mail notification method using a short message service includes: (a) the short service user accesses a user preference database of a short service system through a wired / wireless terminal, Setting an environment for an item to be converted into information; (b) when a new e-mail arrives at the e-mail server of the service user, generating information of the e-mail as a text for short service according to a conversion item set by the user; And (c) transmitting the generated short service text to the wireless terminal of the short service user using a mobile communication provider network.

In addition, the item for converting the e-mail information of the step (a) into the information of the short message service, the sending account of the e-mail, the title of the e-mail, the sending time of the e-mail, the receiving time of the e-mail, It is preferably composed of one or more items selected from the contents of the electronic mail, the size of the electronic mail, and the attachment file item attached to the electronic mail.

Meanwhile, the short service contents display for the selected item among the conversion items may be displayed according to the order set by the user in the environment setting step.

Further, the length of the short service conversion information for the selected item among the conversion items can be determined according to the length of each item set by the user in the environment setting step.

On the other hand, it is preferable to convert the short message service information of the contents of the electronic mail among the conversion items using the information extracted according to a predetermined condition among the contents of the electronic mail as contents.

Further, the condition of extracting information about the contents of the e-mail includes: the first sentence of the e-mail contents, contents from the beginning to the length set by the user, the number or date included in the e-mail contents, At least one selected from among proper nouns included in the e-mail content.

In addition, the wireless terminal of the step (c), the service is possible only if the user can receive the e-mail received by the user as information converted into a short message service through the wireless terminal set by the user.

Finally, the above-mentioned e-mail notification method using the short message service of the present invention can be stored in a recording medium readable by a server computer. Such recording media includes all types of recording media on which programs and data are stored so that they can be read by a computer system. Examples include Read Only Memory (ROM), Random Access Memory (RAM), Compact Disk-Read Only Memory (CD-ROM), Digital Video Disk-Read Only Memory (DVD-ROM), Magnetic Tape, Floppy Disk, Optical Data storage devices. In addition, the recording medium may be stored in a networked computer system so that the computer-readable code is stored and executed in a distributed manner.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to examples, and detailed description will be made with reference to the accompanying drawings to help understand the present invention. However, embodiments according to the present invention can be modified in many different forms, and the scope of the present invention should not be construed as being limited to the embodiments described below. Embodiments of the present invention are provided to more completely explain the present invention to those skilled in the art.

1 is a diagram illustrating a network configuration of an e-mail notification method using a short message service (SMS) according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the service user must set up a user environment through the wired / wireless terminals 10 and 20 in order to receive an e-mail notification using a short message service. When the environment setting is the wired terminal 20, the service system 40 is connected through the Internet 30 to select an environment setting item and a reception length for each item.

When the environment is set using the wireless terminal 10, the terminal 10 should be a terminal capable of accessing the Internet 30, and user transmission information is transmitted through the wireless communication base station 50.

The e-mail notification system 40 using the short message service includes a user basic information database 100, a user environment setting information database 110, a mail server related function 120, and the like.

2 is a block diagram illustrating a procedure for converting an incoming mail into short service text according to user environment setting information.

As shown in FIG. 2, when a new e-mail is received at the mail server 130 of the service user, the information of the e-mail is converted into a short message service according to an environment set by the user.

The new e-mail stored in the mail server 130 retrieves user preferences according to the mail account from the received mail processing module 140 and generates a data for the short service (SMS) data generating module 150 Send incoming mail information to). The SMS data generation module 150 stores information of the user preference information database 110 in which the environment already set by the service user is stored and the user basic information database 100 in which the information of the user to be transmitted is stored. Generate data for short service by referring. The generated short service data is transmitted to the user's wireless terminal through the wireless network 160 of the mobile communication service provider.

3 is a configuration diagram of data fields in a user basic information database server constructed by a service provider according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the user basic information database 100 stores information of a user to be basically provided in order to provide the service.

The data fields of the user basic information database 100 are user account mail 101, mail ID 102, mail password 103, wireless terminal number 104 for receiving SMS and information 105 for wireless Internet service. And the like.

The basic user information stores information of a mail server to be received by a user, and it is obvious that a fraudulent mail server can designate a plurality of mail servers according to a user's setting.

4 is a configuration diagram of data fields in a user preference information database server constructed by a service provider according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 4, the user preference information database 110 stores list information for converting received e-mail information into short message service information, which must be set in advance by the user and is a wired / wireless terminal. You can change the configuration through.

The data fields of the user environment setting information database 110 may include an environment setting function 111, a mail sending account 112, a mail subject 113, a mail sending time 114, a mail receiving time 115, and a mail content. 116, mail size 117, and attachment file item 118.

In addition, the environment setting function data field 111 may be subdivided into data fields such as item On / Off setting 111a, display order setting 111b, and item-specific display length 111c.

The role of the environment setting function is selected by specifying information to be received by the user among the data field items of 112 to 118 in the item On / Off setting data field 111a, and in the display order setting data field 111b. The display order of each selected item can be set, and the display length of the selected item can be determined in the display length data field 111c for each item.

In addition, the sum of the display lengths of the selected items may be limited to the number of characters supported by the short service system.

Meanwhile, when an item for mail content is set in the mail content data field 116, a part of the received mail content may be extracted and configured as a string within the set item display length range.

The method for extracting the contents of the e-mail may include extracting the first sentence of the contents of the e-mail, extracting the contents of the e-mail contents from the beginning to the length set by the user, and including the contents of the e-mail contents. It can be implemented by a method of extracting a number or date, and a method of extracting proper nouns included in the e-mail contents.

5 is a front view of a wireless terminal displaying a short service according to the prior art.

As shown in FIG. 5, the short message service provided to the conventional wireless terminal 200 is a message format that pre-sets information such as an e-mail sender, an e-mail title, an e-mail sending time, and e-mail contents in a mail system. Only send to.

Therefore, as shown, the sender's bale address and a brief title of the received e-mail may be provided, and it is difficult to determine whether the user needs the main contents.

6A is a diagram of a wireless terminal display window that receives a short message according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 6A, the user may enter up to 10 characters 301 for the mail subject, up to 5 characters 302 for the mail sender, and contents of the mail in the environment setting window 300 of the wireless terminal. When the item for is set to a maximum of 10 characters 303, an embodiment of the short service 310 as shown in the above figure is shown.

According to the above-mentioned environment, the mail subject is displayed as [Hello.] 311, and the mail subject 301 recorded by the sender sent to the mail server of the user is displayed as it is. In the above environment setting, since the user does not have 10 characters, the entire article of the title is displayed. The name of the mail sender 302 is displayed as [Hong Gil Dong proxy] 312 because the name and the name of the sender together constitute 5 characters. In addition, since the mail content 303 was designated as a maximum of 10, the 10 characters of the first sentence of the mail sent to the user were displayed as [about the content meeting yesterday ...] 313. In FIG. 6A, although the contents of the e-mail contents are extracted from the beginning to the length set by the user, as described above, the number or date included in the e-mail contents may be extracted, and the e-mail contents may be extracted. It is also possible to extract the proper nouns contained in.

In addition, it is possible to easily implement the display by changing the setting order.

6B is a diagram of a wireless terminal display window that receives a short message according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 6B, the user can enter up to 5 characters (401) for the mail sender, up to 10 characters (402) for the mail subject, and an attachment in the environment setting window (400) of the wireless terminal. When the item for the title is set to a maximum of 10 characters 403, an embodiment of the short service 410 as shown in the drawing is shown.

According to the above-described environment, the mail sender 401 displays the name and title of the mail sender in the form of [5 Gil Hong Dong 411] as five characters. In the mail subject 402, the mail subject 402 recorded by the sender sent to the mail server of the user is displayed as it is [Hello] 412. The attached file title 403 can be displayed together with the file name and the extension name within 10 characters set by the user, indicating that the attached file title 403 is an attached file in the form of [Attachment: doc.doc] 413.

7 is a flowchart illustrating an e-mail notification procedure using a short message service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 7, when an e-mail notification procedure using a short service is started (S500), the user first accesses the user preference database 110 through the Internet 30 to receive the service. S501) to set the user environment (S502). The information set in the user environment setting (S502) is stored in the user environment setting information database 110, and when the new mail arrived at the user is converted into a short message service, the information is converted according to the environment information set above. .

When the new mail arrives at the user (S503), the e-mail information on the new mail is converted into text for short service according to the environment information stored in the user preference information database 110 set by the user (S504). Let's do it. The converted short service text is transmitted to the user's wireless terminal through a wireless mobile communication network (S505), thereby terminating the service procedure (S506).

The best embodiments of the present invention have been disclosed above. Although specific terms have been used herein, they are used only for the purpose of describing the present invention and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention as defined in the claims or the claims.

According to the present invention configured as described above, when the user is provided with the Internet mail short message service using the wireless data terminal, the user does not receive the contents of the item that the user does not want by setting the environment of the information to be provided in advance. It has the advantage of being able to provide items and setting the message length for the item.

Claims (8)

In the e-mail notification method using a short message service, (a) setting the environment for an item for converting e-mail information into information of a short message by accessing a user environment setting database of the short service system through a wired / wireless terminal; (b) when a new e-mail arrives at the e-mail server of the service user, generating information of the e-mail as a text for short service according to a conversion item set by the user; And (c) transmitting the generated short service text for the short service to a wireless terminal of the short service user using a mobile service provider network. The method of claim 1, The item for converting the e-mail information of the step (a) to the information of the short service, A sending account of the e-mail, a title of the e-mail, a sending time of the e-mail, a receiving time of the e-mail, a content of the e-mail, a size of the e-mail, and an attachment file item attached to the e-mail. An e-mail notification method using a short message service, characterized in that it comprises one or more items. The method of claim 2, The short service contents display for the selected item among the conversion items is displayed in the order set by the user in the environment setting step. The method of claim 2, And the length of the short service conversion information for the selected item among the converted items is determined according to the length of each item set by the user in the environment setting step. The method of claim 2, The short service information conversion for the contents of the e-mail among the conversion items, An e-mail notification method using a short message service, characterized by converting information extracted according to a predetermined condition among contents of the e-mail into a content. The method of claim 5, The conditions for extracting information about the contents of the e-mail, At least one selected from the first sentence of the e-mail content, the content from the beginning to the length set by the user, the number or date included in the e-mail content, and a proper noun included in the e-mail content. An email notification method using a short message service, characterized in that. The method of claim 1, The wireless terminal of step (c), And a terminal capable of receiving the e-mail received by the user as information converted into a short service through a wireless terminal set by the user. A computer-readable recording medium containing a program that can implement an email notification method using a short message service through any one of the above-mentioned methods.