JP2002208957A - Electronic sentence processing server system and method therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily perform international communication through electronic sentences. SOLUTION: In this electronic sentence processing server system 100, a WWW server 114 transmits an input form for encouraging the input of mail information through a communication line N to a WWW browser 154. A mail constitution processing part 116 which receives the inputted mail information edits it into an electronic mail transmission format, and transmits it to a mail server. In this system, the WWW server 114 transmits the input form prepared in markup language constituted of uni-codes to the WWW browser 154 in order to encourage the WWW browser 154 to convert the mail information inputted with prescribed character codes into uni-codes, and to transmits it to the mail constitution processing pat 116. The mail constitution processing part 116 edits the received mail information into the electronic mail transmission format including code information indicating that the mail information is expressed with the uni-codes, and transmits it to the mail server 102.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention transmits an input form for prompting input of mail information to a WWW browser of a client computer via a communication line, and further receives the mail information input to the input form. And sends it to a mail server.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In addition to services for delivering letters by mail or the like, so-called electronic mail services for converting electronic texts into data and transmitting / receiving the data via communication lines such as the Internet are now in prosperity.

As one form of the e-mail service, a Web-based mail service (hereinafter referred to as a web service) that can receive an e-mail service with a WWW browser even if mail software is not installed on the client computer side. There is a mail service.) In particular, the number of users of this web mail service is also increasing because many companies provide accounts (user ID, mail address, etc.) free of charge.

[0004] The overall configuration of a system that has conventionally been required for providing a web mail service will be briefly described with reference to FIG.

This system includes a server system 1 that provides a web mail service and a client system 50 that uses the service.

The server system 1 includes a mail server computer 2, a database 4, and a WWW server computer 6, and the client system 50 includes a client PC 52. Mail server computer 2 and WW
The W server computer 6 is connected by a LAN 8 and is always connected to a communication line such as the Internet N via a router (not shown). On the other hand, the client PC 52 and the like are generally connected to the Internet N via a public line and a predetermined provider (not shown) during a necessary time zone. While both are connected to the Internet N, bidirectional communication can be performed via the Internet N. Note that, in addition to the above-described configuration, a DNS server or the like is provided on the server system 1 side as needed.

FIG. 14 shows the internal configuration of the system.

[0008] The mail server computer 2 includes a mail receiving / sending unit 10 and a mail providing unit 12. The mail receiving / sending unit 10 is realized by, for example, starting a server application program such as sendmail. The mail receiving / sending unit 10 receives a predetermined e-mail, analyzes its destination, and stores it in the database 4 if the destination is itself. If it is addressed to another server, this e-mail is transmitted (relayed). The mail providing unit 12 is realized by, for example, starting a server application program such as POP3, and provides the electronic mail addressed to the service user stored in the database to the client PC 52 as the user. In actuality, as will be described later, the mail providing unit 12 and the client PC 52 do not directly exchange e-mails, but rather do so via the WWW server computer 6.

The WWW server computer 6 comprises a WWW server unit 14, a mail composition processing unit 16, and a received mail extraction unit 1.
8 is provided. The WWW server unit 14 is, for example, Apache
And the like, and is implemented by starting a server application program, and upon request from the client PC 52, a predetermined web page is
It is transmitted to the WW browser 54. The web page is described in a markup language such as HTML, and is analyzed by the WWW browser 54 and displayed on the display of the client PC 52.

[0010] For example, here, a web page 20 as shown in FIG. 15 is provided to the client PC 52 as a web mail service. The web page 20 is provided with a destination address input field (To :) 22, a title input field (Subject :) 24, a message input field 26, and the like. The user writes necessary mail information in each field. It has become. When the user clicks a send button (not shown) after writing the e-mail information, the e-mail composition processing unit 16 is activated via the Internet N, receives the e-mail information transmitted from the WWW browser 54, and A mail transmitting / receiving unit 10 of the mail server computer 2 by composing an e-mail with a header or the like
Send to The mail transmitting / receiving unit 10 analyzes the destination of the e-mail, stores the destination in the database 4 if the destination is itself, and transmits (relays) the e-mail if the destination is another server.

When a user of the web mail service reads an electronic mail addressed to the user, the user requests the server system 1 to read the electronic mail addressed to the user via the WWW browser 52. When this request is received by the WWW server computer 6, the received mail extraction unit 18 is started in conjunction therewith, and the received mail extraction unit 18 sends the mail of the mail server computer 2 based on the user's mail address and the like. It accesses the providing unit 12 to extract the titles and source address information of a plurality of e-mails addressed to this user, and
It is provided to the server unit 14. In the WWW server section 14, these are stored as a received mail list in the client PC.
As a result, the web page (received mail list) is displayed on the WWW browser 54, and the mail addressed to itself is listed by the source address and the title.

When the user selects a predetermined e-mail from the list, the received e-mail extracting unit 18 sends the received e-mail to the e-mail providing unit 1.
2 is accessed again, all the information of the selected e-mail is received and transmitted to the WWW browser 54 via the WWW server unit 14. As a result, an e-mail message is displayed on the WWW browser 54, so that the user can read the e-mail addressed to the user.

As described above, according to the present system, WWW
Since the mail composition processing unit 16 and the like are mounted on the server computer 6 side, the client PC 52 can receive the e-mail service as long as the WWW browser 54 is provided. This means that as long as there is a computer that can be connected to the Internet N, the web mail service can be used at any time regardless of the location.

[0014]

The concept of a border does not exist in the Internet N in which communication lines are connected worldwide via a router or the like. Therefore, this Internet N
By using, international communication across borders can be realized extremely easily and at low cost. Along with this, intercultural exchanges and the like, which have been considered difficult in the past, have also become active. According to the inventor's speculation, for example, "I want to send e-mail to China" The needs of the Japanese side, such as "I want to make friends with Russians", and the needs of foreigners, such as "I want to send e-mail to Japanese" and "I want to make friends with Japanese using e-mail" It is thought that it is increasing.

The present inventor has recognized such needs, and in the above system configuration, using the WWW browser 54, creates an e-mail in which Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, and English are mixed. Tried. This is because if international exchanges further deepen in the future, it is expected that opportunities for transmitting and receiving electronic sentences in which Japanese and Chinese are written, for example, will increase.

FIG. 16 shows the result. As is clear from the figure, Chinese characters were garbled at the input stage, and it was impossible to input correctly.

FIG. 17 shows the result of transmitting the e-mail to a friend and having the friend read the e-mail. As is clear from the figure, in addition to Chinese, which was already garbled in the input state, Korean was garbled and could not be read. Note that this is only an example, and it is fully conceivable that other languages may be garbled.

In other words, in the conventional system, for example, when sending an e-mail in Chinese to a Chinese, the Chinese is garbled and cannot be read by the other party. Even if it is received, Korean may be garbled and cannot be read, and furthermore, it may not be possible to send an electronic sentence in which both Chinese and Japanese are written. This is inconvenient for Japanese who are trying to communicate internationally and foreigners who are interested in Japan, and it is a factor that hinders cross-cultural exchange that will be activated in the future. .

According to the inventor's guess, it is thought that the opportunity to receive a plurality of e-mails from each country will increase more and more in the future.
In this case, when the received mail list is displayed on the display, there is a problem that one of the languages is garbled. In this case, if the character code is encoded into a garbled character code, it is possible to display the specific language, but conversely, the language that has been correctly displayed is garbled. In other words, it is very inconvenient to read the mail list of one page but need to encode it many times. In fact, by using the alphabet that is supported by any OS (this can be both English conversation and usage like Roman alphabet in Japanese), to write the whole sentence There are many. However, being unable to use their native language freely is a regrettable situation for those who value their own language and culture.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic sentence processing server system capable of handling a plurality of languages without the user being conscious of it.

[0021]

According to the present invention, there is provided a WWW server section for transmitting an input form for prompting the input of mail information to a WWW browser of a client computer via a communication line, and a WWW server section for inputting the input form. A mail composition processing unit that receives the mail information, edits the mail information into an electronic mail transmission format, and transmits the edited mail information to a mail server. By transmitting the input form created in the language to the WWW browser, the mail information input in a predetermined character code is converted to the Unicode and transmitted to the mail composition processing unit for the WWW browser. The mail composition processing unit converts the received mail information into the Unicode It is intended to achieve the above object by code information means that are revealed by editing the electronic mail transmission format included sends to the mail server.

The present inventor has proposed a WWW browser (for example, Internet Expl.)
orer 4.0 or higher: Microsoft, Netsc
ape Navigator 4.72 or more: Netscape, Inc. of the United States) focused on decoding and displaying a web page described in a markup language in Unicode. This Unicode is a coding system aiming to represent characters all over the world with a single fixed-length code. Specifically, a 16-bit fixed-length code is used, and almost all of the capacity of 64 Kbytes is used. National characters are assigned.

The functions of the WWW browser will be described with reference to FIG. 1 (for Japanese) and FIG. 2 (for Unicode).

As shown in FIG. 1A, Japanese w
Most of the eb page, including HTML tags and contents, is described by a Japanese-specific JIS code system such as Shift-JIS or EUC-JIS. WWW that received this web page via the Internet
Since the browser recognizes that they are described in the JIS code and displays them on the screen according to the JIS code, Japanese is displayed correctly.

On a web page such as a web mail service, a bulletin board, and a chat, an entry field for inputting a message or the like is formed on the page. For example, as shown in FIG. 1B, when Japanese is input from a keyboard on a client computer in which a Japanese-compatible OS is installed, Japanese is inserted into an entry field on the web page based on the JIS code. As a result, the characters are accurately displayed on the display and can be transmitted. This is possible because the transmitted we
This is because the code systems of the page b and the keyboard input side match (here, the JIS code matches). For example, even if Chinese is input from the keyboard and this Chinese code (for example, big5) is inserted into the entry field of the JIS code web page, the entire page is read as a JIS code, so the Chinese is accurately displayed on the display. Cannot be read, and even if it is transmitted, the other party cannot read it accurately.

Next, as shown in FIG.
We in which ML tags and contents are described in Unicode
Consider a case where the WWW browser receives page b. W
The WW browser determines that they are described in Unicode, decodes the content according to Unicode, and displays the content on the screen. Therefore, a web page in which various languages are mixed can be displayed in a language supported by Unicode.

Here, the present inventor tried to form an entry field on this web page and input Japanese into the keyboard there. As shown in FIG. 2 (B), Japanese is input to the WWW browser from the keyboard in accordance with the JIS code, so that it is considered that the characters are garbled because Unicode and JIS code do not normally match. Unicode-supporting WWW browsers detect in advance that if the web page itself is displayed in Unicode and displayed as it is, garbled characters will occur due to code mismatch, and the conversion table owned by the user will convert the Japanese JIS code into Unicode. Automatically convert to Japanese and w
Insert into eb page. As described above, the WWW browser has a “local code (for example, JIS code) and Unicode conversion function”, but this function transmits multilingual sentences from a server, or simply sends a web page to each country.
It is prepared from the viewpoint that the server accepts the text input to page b. In other words, the purpose is to facilitate the exchange of information between "one server and many clients".

However, the present inventor has changed his mind and focused on effectively utilizing the functions of the WWW browser in order to link “client to client”. At first glance, the exchange of sentences between clients is an individual connection relationship, and the above functions of the WWW browser are considered to have little relation. However, an electronic sentence management server system is actively arranged between the clients. It was found that configuring the Unicode area can solve the problems of the conventional e-mail service.

Therefore, in the present invention, an input form is intentionally created in a Unicode expression and transmitted to a WWW browser. In this way, no matter what language the client computer inputs via the keyboard, or even if the client computer inputs a mixture of multiple languages, it will be input to the WWW.
The browser automatically converts to Unicode. For example, even if Japanese, Chinese, and Russian are entered in one input field based on each code, they are all unified into Unicode.

The e-mail converted to Unicode is read by the other party through two types of routes. One is a case where this e-mail is transferred to another general mail server, and a person using the other mail server retrieves the e-mail from the mail server and reads it. This is a case where the other party uses the same electronic sentence processing server system as the present invention and reads an e-mail via a WWW browser. In the former case, a widely-used mail client program (for example, Outlook: Microsoft, USA) supports Unicode, and can display the message portion (excluding the title) in Unicode as it is, so that many languages can be accurately displayed. Can be displayed on the screen. As described above, since the WWW browser supports Unicode as described above, it can be reliably read by the partner client computer.

As a result, since the user only has to use the functions of the WWW browser which has already been widely used without installing new software or the like on the client side, additional labor and cost are required. In addition, it is possible to have the user input an electronic sentence without making the user aware of any mismatch of the code system. If necessary, an e-mail or the like in which multiple languages are mixed can be easily created.

The electronic sentence processing server system is used for transmitting and receiving sentences in an e-mail format using a translation tool in which an original sentence and a translated sentence are double-written.
A case may be considered in which a foreign language learning tool in which a foreign language example sentence and its translation are written together is provided in an e-mail format. Of course,
It is preferable to use it for a general web mail service that is most needed as a communication tool.
It is even more effective if used in combination with bulletin boards or net communities that are accessible from each country.

Now, when international exchange is activated by using the electronic sentence processing server system of the present invention, a user of this system can use a conventional mail server from a partner of each country who uses the conventional mail server. It is speculated that there will be more opportunities to receive emails based on the code. For example, JIS (Japan), big5 (China), ASCII
(E.g., the United States).

According to the inventor's detailed examination, in order to display the received mail list (list) on the mail software of the client computer in such a situation, each title (language code) represented by each country code (list) is displayed. Subject)
Could not be displayed simultaneously (on one screen). In this state, since the contents of the mail cannot be guessed in advance, a person who cares about the virus or the like cannot even read the e-mail with confidence.

Therefore, in the above invention, when there is a list display request for received mail from the WWW browser, at least the title information of the electronic mail addressed to the WWW browser stored in the mail server is extracted,
A receiving mail extracting unit that converts the title information into Unicode and passes the converted information to the WWW server;
It is preferable that the server unit constructs a received mail list in a markup language by Unicode using the passed title information and transmits the list to the WWW browser.

In this way, when a plurality of e-mails in various character code expressions are received, their titles are converted to Unicode and then transmitted to the WWW browser using the WWW server, so that multilingual Can be displayed in a list.

[0037] Further, in the above invention, when the received mail extracting unit receives a read request of a predetermined electronic mail in the received mail list from the WWW browser, the received mail extracting unit extracts the predetermined electronic mail from the mail server, and retrieves the predetermined electronic mail from the WWW server. It is preferable that the WWW server constructs an e-mail display screen in a markup language using an original character code of the predetermined e-mail and transmits the screen to the WWW browser.

In this way, the received mail list is displayed in the Unicode expression, and the specific contents of each e-mail are displayed in the original character code expression. Can be done. It is possible to convert all e-mails, including messages, to Unicode and send it to the WWW browser. However, considering the possibility of some conversion errors, Unicode conversion should be limited to the title, etc. It can be said that it is preferable to display the original character code.

As a result, it is possible to send e-mails in a plurality of languages with one e-mail address and to receive e-mails in a plurality of languages, thereby achieving international communication without any language restrictions. Becomes possible.

[0040] In the above invention, the WWW server unit includes:
A translation processing unit for transmitting a translation language selection page for selecting a language desired to be translated from a plurality of languages to the WWW browser, and translating the mail information into a translation language selected by the WWW browser; A unicode conversion unit for converting the mail information into Unicode, wherein the mail composition processing unit means that the mail information of at least the translated sentence converted into the Unicode expression is expressed in the Unicode. It is preferable that the electronic mail is edited into the electronic mail transmission format including the code information and transmitted to the mail server as one electronic mail.

The inventor of the present invention has noticed that if an electronic mail is created in a Unicode expression, even if one electronic sentence is translated into another language (character code), no garbled characters will be generated. Automatically translate and create emails. As a result, even if you do not know the grammar of the other party (reader), if you create an e-mail in the language you know, you can exchange actual mail, and you can use an international language that is not limited to your own language skills Communication can be planned. Even if the translation is insufficient, for example, if both the original sentence and the translated sentence are written in Unicode and transmitted as one e-mail, the presence of the original sentence can make up for the lack of translation.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, a WWW server unit for transmitting an input form for prompting text input to a WWW browser of a client computer via a communication line, and receiving mail information input to the input form Along with
And a mail composition processing unit that edits the mail information into an electronic mail transmission format and then transmits the edited mail information to a mail server, wherein the WWW server unit includes a predetermined character code from a plurality of types of character codes. Transmitting a character code selection page to select the WWW browser, and transmitting the input form in a markup language by the selected predetermined character code,
The above object is achieved by prompting the input of the mail information by the selected predetermined character code.

In the conventional web mail service, the character code used when creating an electronic sentence is limited to one character code. For example, a web mail service for Japanese is forced to input Japanese according to the JIS code, and inputting an electronic sentence with another character code was likely to cause garbled characters. For example, to send an e-mail to a Chinese person in Chinese, it is necessary to separately subscribe to a Web mail service for Chinese people (a Web mail service established in China) and obtain an e-mail address and the like.

The inventor noticed the inconvenience, and transmitted a language selection page to the user, and transmitted an input form expressed by the selected language code, thereby prompting the user to input mail information. . In this way, if only one e-mail address is obtained, an environment is provided to the user in which an electronic sentence can be created by freely selecting a language from multiple languages.

In this case, as described above, the WWW server transmits a translation language selection page for selecting a language desired to be translated from a plurality of languages to the WWW browser, A translation processing unit that translates the mail information into a language selected by the WWW browser, and a Unicode conversion unit that can convert at least the translated mail information into Unicode, wherein the mail configuration processing unit Edits at least the translated mail information converted to a Unicode representation into the e-mail transmission format including code information meaning that the e-mail is represented in the Unicode, and converts the e-mail information into one e-mail. Preferably, it is sent to the server.

[0046]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 3 shows the overall system configuration including the electronic sentence processing server system 100 according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

This system includes an electronic sentence processing server system 100 which provides a web mail service,
Client system 15 that uses services
0 is provided. Except for the parts specifically described below, the system is substantially the same as the conventional system shown in FIG.

The electronic sentence processing server system 100 includes a mail server computer 102, a database 104, and WWW.
The system includes a server computer 106 and an electronic sentence processing server computer 107. Also, the client system 150
Client PCs 151 and 152 are provided for acquiring mail addresses, IDs, and the like for a web mail service.
Note that the client PC 153 independently uses another mail service provided by the conventional general mail server 190.

The mail server computer 102, the WWW server computer 106, and the electronic text processing server computer 107 are connected by a LAN 108, and are always connected to a communication line such as the Internet N via a router (not shown). On the other hand, the client PC 151 and the like are connected to the Internet N via a public line and a predetermined provider (not shown) during a necessary time zone. Note that, in addition to the above-described configuration, a DNS server or the like is provided on the server system 100 side as needed.

FIG. 4 shows the internal configuration of this system.

The mail server computer 102 functions as a mail server, and specifically includes a mail receiving / sending unit 110 and a mail providing unit 112. The mail receiving / sending unit 110 receives a predetermined e-mail, analyzes its destination, and if the destination is itself,
And sends (relays) this e-mail to another mail server 109. Email provider 11
Reference numeral 2 denotes an electronic mail stored in the database 104, which is transmitted to the client PC 151 as a user of the service.
And so on.

The WWW server computer 106 has a WWW server unit 114. This WWW server unit 114 is a WWW browser 154 of the client PCs 151 and 152.
A predetermined web page is transmitted via the Internet N in response to a request from.

The electronic sentence processing server computer 107 includes a mail composition processing unit 116, a received mail extraction unit 118, a translation processing unit 120, and a Unicode conversion unit 122. The mail composition processing unit 116 includes client PCs 151, 1
At the same time as receiving the mail information input via the 52 WWW browser 154, the mail information is edited into a predetermined electronic mail transmission format (for example, SMTP) and transmitted to the mail server computer 102. Specifically, in the present embodiment, the source address, destination address,
An appropriate SMTP header is attached to each of the messages and the like.

The received mail extracting unit 118 provides a received mail list and an e-mail message to the client PCs 151 and 152. The actual provision is performed via the WWW server unit 114.

The translation processing unit 120 translates the mail information into a predetermined language.
2, here, converts both the text information before translation (original sentence) and the text information after translation into Unicode.

It should be noted that the mail composition processing section 116 and the received mail extraction section 118, etc.
This is realized by starting up a CGI script created in l, C language, PHP, or the like. Of course, CG
ActiveX, Java without or in combination with I
It can also be realized by a component, API, or the like. A predetermined client program is transmitted to the client computers 151 and 152 by the WWW server unit 114.
This program may be transmitted and mounted on the side, and this program may realize each unit by interlocking with each program of the electronic sentence processing server system 100.

Next, the operation of the present system will be described with reference to a flowchart and a web page.

(1) E-mail creation / transmission procedure (FIG. 5)
-Fig. 7)

First, when the WWW browser 154 of the client PC 151 requests the WWW server unit 114 to create an e-mail (step 200), the WWW server unit 114 sends the input form 130 in a web page format as shown in FIG. Is transmitted (step 202). This input form 130 is a Unicode (unicode)
e) It is described in a markup language such as HTML by expression, and the WWW browser 154 analyzes this language and displays it on the display of the client PC 151.

The input form 130 includes a destination address input field (To :) 131 and a title input field (Subject).
t :) 132, a message input field 133, and the like are prepared, and the user is urged to write necessary e-mail information in each field.

When the user inputs a destination address, a title, and a message from the keyboard based on the JIS code (step 204), the WWW browser 154 displays the input form 130 (Unicode) and the character code of the input information (JIS code) as one. If not, the JIS code on the input information side is converted to Unicode and displayed on the display (step 206).

Also, for example, when the user inputs the mail information from the keyboard based on the Chinese code (for example, big5) (step 204), similarly, the WWW browser 154 causes the input form 130 (Unicode) and the input information ( It is determined that the character codes of big5) do not match, and this Chinese code is converted to Unicode and displayed on the display (step 206).

As a result, for example, as shown in FIG. 7, a plurality of languages can be mixed and input.
The reason why various characters can be displayed by converting to Unicode is that Unicode itself contains many languages.

When the user clicks a send button (not shown) after checking the contents of the e-mail on the display, the input mail information is transmitted to the electronic text processing server system 100 via the Internet N ( Step 208). At the same time, the mail composition processing unit 116 of the electronic sentence processing server computer 107 is activated.
Bes in the title (Contents of Subject) in the mail information
Encode based on e64 standard (step 21)
0). The Bese64 standard includes, for example, ASCH
The encoding is requested when a character string other than the II code is included, and is required this time because it is Unicode.

Further, the mail composition processing section 116 performs the WWW browser 15 on the text (message) in the mail information.
It is checked whether or not 4 has been correctly converted to Unicode, and if there is any conversion omission, it is converted to Unicode (step 212). Thereafter, the SM information including the code information indicating that the information is described in Unicode is added to the information.
A TP header is attached (step 214). The e-mail edited in the SMTP transfer format in this way is transmitted to the e-mail receiving unit 110 of the mail server computer 102 (step 216), and thereafter, is treated in the same manner as a general e-mail.

Note that this e-mail is read by the other party via two types of routes. One is that the e-mail is transferred to another general mail server 190, and the client PC 153 on the other side using the e-mail sends the mail server 1
The other is a case where an e-mail is taken out from 90 and read, and the other case is a case where the other party reads the e-mail via the WWW browser 154 with the client PC 152. In the former case, a widely used mail client program (for example, Outlook: Microsoft Corporation)
Corresponds to Unicode, and the message portion (excluding the title) of the Unicode expression can be displayed as it is, so that the language can be accurately displayed on the client PC 153 on the screen. For the latter, as already explained,
Since the W browser 154 supports Unicode, it can be reliably read by the client PC 152.

In the electronic sentence processing server system 100, in order to utilize the function of the WWW browser 154,
“Darefully” creates an input form in Unicode and sends it to the WWW browser 154. Therefore, even if the client PC 151 inputs any language via the keyboard, the WWW browser 154 automatically converts the language into Unicode. This mail information is sent to the other party's WWW
If transmitted to the browser 154, these languages can be displayed accurately.

As a result, the user (client PC 15
1, 152) can input an electronic sentence without adding any new labor and cost, and without being aware of any inconsistency in the code system, thereby facilitating international communication.

(2) Received mail list display procedure (FIG. 8)

Next, a case where the service user requests display of a list of electronic mail addressed to the service user will be described. As shown in FIG. 8, the electronic sentence processing server system 100
When a received mail list display request is received from the W browser 154 (step 220), the received mail extraction unit 116 in the electronic text processing server computer 107 is activated. The received mail extracting unit 116 accesses the mail providing unit 112 of the mail server computer 102 (step 2).
01) First, the number of received mails is obtained (step 2).
22). Thereafter, the received mail extracting unit 116 acquires the title and the source mail address in the mail information from the mail providing unit 112 on a case-by-case basis (steps 223 and 22).
4) Convert these to Unicode (step 22)
5). To unify titles and the like in Unicode like this,
The received e-mail is sent to another mail server 190 (see FIG. 3).
This is because the character codes are also various because they include those transferred from.

The received mail extracting unit 116 sequentially transfers the titles and the like converted to Unicode to the WWW server unit 114, and the WWW server unit 114 transmits the received mail list as H
The configuration is performed in the TML format (step 226). This procedure is repeated to complete the received mail list when title extraction and Unicode conversion for all cases are completed (step 22).
3), w described by HTML in Unicode representation
The web page is transmitted to the WWW browser 154 as an web page (step 227). As a result, the client PC 15
The display 1 displays a received mail list in which titles in multiple languages are mixed.

(3) Received mail display procedure (FIG. 9)

Next, a case where a user reads an electronic mail message addressed to himself / herself will be described. As shown in FIG.
When the user selects an e-mail to be displayed from the received e-mail list (step 240), the received e-mail extracting unit 118 is activated again to access the e-mail providing unit 112 of the mail server computer 102 (step 240). 242), and obtain all mail information of the electronic mail (step 244).

Further, the received mail extracting section 118 specifies the original character code from the header of the obtained electronic mail (step 246), and decodes the title encoded in Base64 standard (step 24).
8). Thereafter, the mail information is transferred to the WWW server unit 114, and the WWW server unit 114 transmits the mail text to the WWW browser 154 in the HTML format of the original character code expression (step 250). For example, if this mail information is a Chinese code, the HTML of the Chinese code
In the case of Unicode, it is transmitted in the Unicode HTML format. In particular, even in the case of mail information in which multiple languages are mixed by Unicode, all mails can be displayed accurately because the mail information is transmitted to the WWW browser 154 in the Unicode HTML format.

(4) E-mail creation and transmission procedure with automatic translation sentence (FIGS. 10 to 12)

Next, a procedure for automatically translating a message and transmitting it to the other party will be described.

As shown in FIG. 10, an electronic mail creation request from a user is sent to the electronic sentence processing server system 100.
Is received (step 260), the WWW server unit 1
14 transmits a code selection page (see FIG. 11) for selecting an input character code to the WWW browser 154 (step 262). When the user selects a predetermined character code from a plurality of types of character codes (step 264), the WW
The W server unit 114 transmits the input form 135 in the HTML format represented by the selected character code to the WWW browser 154 (step 266: see FIG. 12). In this input form 135, in addition to the fields for inputting information, buttons 136 for selecting a language desired to be translated from a plurality of languages are formed, from which the user selects a predetermined language. (Step 268).

After inputting the mail information in accordance with the character code selected at the beginning (step 270), when the transmission button (not shown) is clicked, the electronic text processing server computer 1 is clicked.
The translation processing unit 120 of 07 is activated to automatically translate the mail information into a predetermined language (step 272). After the translation is completed, the Unicode processing unit 122 is activated, and the Unicode processing unit 122 converts both the untranslated original sentence and the translated sentence into Unicode (step 274), and passes the converted mail information to the WWW server unit 114. WWW server unit 114
Returns a confirmation page in which the original sentence and the translated sentence are written together to the WWW browser 154 in a Unicode-formatted HTML format (step 276), and prompts the user to confirm whether or not the translated sentence is correct. If there is an error in the translation, the user directly corrects it on the WWW browser 154 (step 27).
8). On the other hand, when there is no portion to be corrected and the user clicks the confirmation button, the electronic sentence processing server 1
07 is started, and a predetermined STMP header is added to the mail information including the message in which the original sentence and the translated sentence are described together (step 28).
0) Sent to the mail server computer 102 (step 282). Since the electronic sentence is displayed in Unicode on the display of the other party receiving the electronic mail, the original sentence and the translated sentence are simultaneously displayed as one message.

In this case, the input character code is selected and then the mail information is input. However, as in the electronic mail creation procedure shown in (1), a Unicode input form is transmitted to the WWW browser. The input information may be converted into Unicode first on the WWW browser side. In this case, it is necessary to convert only the translation created by the translation processing unit 120 to Unicode. Also, here, the case where the input form and the translation language selection page are integrated (FIG. 12) is shown, but these may be constituted by separate web pages.

In the electronic sentence processing server system 100,
Since the message is automatically translated by the translation processing unit 120, even if the grammar of the other party (reader) is not known, if the user creates an e-mail in a language that he or she knows, actual communication is possible. In other words, they can communicate internationally without being limited to their own language skills. Also, even if the translation is insufficient, the original sentence is also written, so that the presence of the original sentence can compensate for the lack of translation.

Further, since a language selection page is transmitted to the user and an input form expressed by the selected language code is transmitted, if only one e-mail address is obtained, the user can select from multiple languages. An environment where users can freely select a language to create an electronic sentence is provided.

Various usages of e-mail are currently proposed, and e-mail magazines and foreign language courses to be subscribed are provided in e-mail format. The electronic sentence processing server system of the present invention can also be expected to be used in various variations, such as an international mail magazine in which multiple languages are mixed and a communication course in which multiple languages can be learned.

Although one system configuration has been described above, there are various system configurations in which these parts are appropriately combined without departing from the gist of the present invention. Various embodiments also exist. In particular, the number of server computers and the like are appropriately set in consideration of processing capacity and the like, and one server computer may play all roles.

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According to the present invention, communication by electronic text can be achieved without being restricted by language and without burdening the user with labor and cost.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining functions of a WWW browser on which the present invention is based;

FIG. 2 is a block diagram for explaining functions of a WWW browser on which the present invention is based;

FIG. 3 is an overall configuration diagram including an electronic sentence processing server system according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of the electronic sentence processing server system.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a procedure for creating an e-mail.

FIG. 6 shows a web provided to a WWW browser during the same procedure.
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FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a state where characters are input on the web page.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a procedure for displaying a received mail list.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a procedure for displaying an e-mail text.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a procedure for creating an electronic mail for automatic addition of a translated sentence.

FIG. 11 shows a web provided to a WWW browser during the same procedure.
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FIG. 12 shows a web provided to a WWW browser during the same procedure.
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FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an entire configuration including a conventional system.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an internal configuration of the system.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an input form displayed on a WWW browser in the system.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing a state in which an electronic sentence in which multiple languages are mixed in the system is input.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a state in which an electronic sentence in which multiple languages are mixed in the same system is transmitted.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 ... Electronic sentence processing server system 110 ... Mail transmission / reception part 112 ... Mail provision part 114 ... WWW server part 116 ... Mail composition processing part 118 ... Received mail extraction part 120 ... Translation processing part 122 ... Unicode conversion part 154 ... WWW browser

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A WWW server unit for transmitting an input form for prompting input of mail information to a WWW browser of a client computer via a communication line, receiving the mail information input to the input form, A mail composition processing unit that edits the mail information into an electronic mail transmission format and sends the mail information to a mail server. The input form, wherein the WWW server unit is created in a markup language by Unicode. To the WWW browser, prompting the WWW browser to convert the mail information input in a predetermined character code into the Unicode and transmit the Unicode to the mail composition processing unit. The processing unit converts the received mail information
An electronic text processing server system, wherein the electronic text processing server system edits the electronic mail in the electronic mail transmission format including the code information indicating that it is expressed in the Unicode, and transmits the electronic mail to the mail server. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein when a request to display a list of received mails is issued from the WWW browser, at least title information of the electronic mail addressed to the WWW browser stored in the mail server is extracted. The title information is converted into Unicode, and the received mail extraction unit is provided to be passed to the WWW server. The WWW server unit uses the passed title information,
An electronic sentence processing server system wherein a received mail list is formed in a markup language by Unicode and transmitted to the WWW browser. 3. The received mail extracting unit according to claim 2, wherein the received mail extracting unit fetches the predetermined electronic mail from the mail server when receiving a read request of a predetermined electronic mail in the received mail list from the WWW browser. An electronic text processing server system configured to pass the data to a WWW server, wherein the WWW server composes an e-mail display screen in a markup language using an original character code of the predetermined e-mail and transmits the screen to the WWW browser. . 4. The translation language selection page according to claim 1, wherein the WWW server unit displays a translation language selection page for selecting a language desired to be translated from a plurality of languages.
Transmitting the mail information to a translation language selected by the WWW browser; and a Unicode conversion unit converting the mail information to Unicode. The unit edits the mail information of at least the translated sentence converted into the Unicode expression into the e-mail transmission format including code information that means being expressed in the Unicode, and converts the mail information into one e-mail. An electronic sentence processing server system for transmitting to an e-mail server. 5. A WWW server unit for transmitting an input form for prompting a text input to a WWW browser of a client computer via a communication line, receiving mail information input to the input form, and receiving the mail information. A mail composition processing unit that edits information into an electronic mail transmission format and then sends it to a mail server, wherein the WWW server unit selects a predetermined character code from a plurality of types of character codes. To the WWW browser, and the input form in the markup language by the selected predetermined character code is transmitted, and the mail information is input by the selected predetermined character code. An electronic sentence processing server system characterized by prompting the user. 6. The WWW server according to claim 5, wherein the WWW server unit displays a translation language selection page for selecting a language desired to be translated from a plurality of languages.
A translation processing unit configured to transmit the mail information to a language selected by the WWW browser, and a Unicode conversion unit capable of converting at least the translated mail information into Unicode; The mail composition processing unit edits at least the translated mail information converted to a Unicode representation into the electronic mail transmission format including code information meaning that the mail information is represented in the Unicode. An electronic sentence processing server system, wherein the electronic sentence is transmitted to the mail server as one electronic mail. 7. An input form for prompting input of mail information is transmitted to a WWW browser of a client computer via a communication line, and the mail information input to the input form is received. An electronic sentence processing method for editing information in an electronic mail transmission format and transmitting the information to a mail server, comprising: providing the input form created in a markup language by Unicode to the WWW browser;
A code indicating that the mail information input in a predetermined character code is converted into the Unicode before transmission, and the received mail information is represented in the Unicode. An electronic sentence processing method comprising editing the electronic mail transmission format including information and transmitting the edited electronic mail transmission format to the mail server.