JP2002269011A - Device and method for transferring electronic mail, storage medium stored with electronic mail transfer program, and electronic mail transfer program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic mail transfer device with which a user using a terminal can speedily confirm the content of a web page even if a received electronic mail includes the address of the web page and the terminal of a transfer destination cannot display the web page. SOLUTION: The electronic mail transfer device 1 accesses a web server 4 by using the address of the web page extracted from the electronic mail received in a reception mail analysis part 23 and obtains information on the web page. Obtained information is converted into a form displayed by a portable terminal 3 in an URL transmission/reception conversion part 24, is added to the electronic mail received in a transfer mail synthesis part 21 and is transferred to the portable terminal 3.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to an electronic mail transfer apparatus, an electronic mail transfer method, a storage medium storing an electronic mail transfer program, and an electronic mail transfer program, and more particularly, to a terminal and a web server via a network. The present invention relates to a connectable e-mail transfer device, an e-mail transfer method, a storage medium storing an e-mail transfer program, and an e-mail transfer program.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With the recent spread of networks represented by the Internet and e-mail systems, the exchange of messages via networks has become common. In particular, recent advances in technology have made it possible for mobile terminals such as mobile phones to receive electronic mail.

[0003] Also, a technology for transferring received e-mails and instant messages to another terminal has been realized.
For example, an e-mail transfer system has been established in which an e-mail received by a personal computer at a workplace is set to be transferred to a portable terminal, so that business-related e-mail can be checked at any time. Further, an e-mail transfer system that effectively utilizes information in the e-mail by analyzing the contents of the received e-mail has been proposed. Such an e-mail transfer system is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 8-88698, No. 9-6697,
And JP-A-11-136278.

[0004]

However, although it is common for an electronic mail to include a URL (Uniform Resource Locators) address, another terminal may be used from the terminal receiving the electronic mail including the URL address by the electronic mail transfer system. However, if the terminal to which the e-mail is transferred does not have the ability to display the web page of the URL address, the content of the web page of the URL address cannot be quickly confirmed.

[0005] An object of the present invention is to use a terminal even if a received e-mail includes a web page address and the transfer destination terminal cannot display a web page of an address included in the received e-mail. It is an object of the present invention to provide an e-mail transfer device, an e-mail transfer method, and an e-mail transfer program that enable a user to quickly check the contents of a web page at an address.

[0006]

An electronic mail transfer device according to the present invention is an electronic mail transfer device connectable to a terminal and a web server via a network, and includes related information relating to information in a received electronic mail. Means for obtaining the relevant information from a web server, information converting means for converting the obtained relevant information into a form that can be displayed on a terminal, and adding the relevant information converted by the information converting means to an e-mail to generate the e-mail. Transfer means for transferring to the terminal.

Accordingly, even when the terminal to which the e-mail is transferred cannot obtain the relevant information related to the information in the transferred e-mail from the web server,
By converting the related information into a form that can be displayed on the terminal by the electronic mail transfer device, it is possible to quickly check the relevant information related to the information in the electronic mail at the transfer destination terminal.

Preferably, the electronic mail transfer device includes:
Transfer mode setting means for setting a transfer mode for transferring an e-mail, and transfer mode determining means for determining whether or not the transfer mode is set, and the information obtaining means, as a result of the determination by the transfer mode determining means, Get related information when transfer mode is set.

[0009] Thus, the electronic mail transfer device obtains the relevant information of the received electronic mail only when the electronic mail transfer is set.

[0010] More preferably, the information obtaining means includes an address extracting means for extracting an address of a web page in the web server from information in the received e-mail, and an information receiving means for receiving information of the web page of the address as related information. Means.

Thus, the electronic mail transfer device can obtain the information of the web page of the address indicated in the electronic mail as the relevant information of the received electronic mail.

More preferably, the information from the web page is information described in HTML (hypertext markup language).

[0013] More preferably, the information conversion means includes an anchor element conversion means for creating anchor information obtained by converting an anchor element of the received web page information.

Thus, the electronic mail transfer device can convert only the anchor element of the received web page into a form that can be displayed by the transfer destination terminal as the relevant information of the received electronic mail.

[0015] More preferably, the electronic mail transfer device includes comparison means for comparing the information amount of the information converted by the information conversion means with a predetermined information amount, and the transfer means includes: When the information amount of the obtained information is larger than a predetermined information amount, the anchor information is transferred to the terminal.

[0016] With this configuration, when the amount of information of the web page received by the electronic mail transfer device is large, the electronic mail to be transferred is caused by adding the information converted into a form that can be displayed by the transfer destination terminal to the electronic mail. It is possible to prevent an increase in mail capacity.

An electronic mail transfer method according to the present invention is an electronic mail transfer device connectable to a terminal via a network, and extracts an address of a web page in a web server from information in a received electronic mail. A command formula for creating a command formula for instructing the content conversion server for converting the information of the web page at the extracted address into a form displayable on the terminal to transmit the converted information to the terminal from the extracted address; It includes a creating unit, and a transfer unit that adds the created instruction formula to the electronic mail and transfers the electronic mail to the terminal.

Thus, the user of the terminal to which the e-mail has been transferred from the e-mail transfer device confirms the contents of the transferred e-mail, and furthermore, further stores the information of the web page at the address in the e-mail. When it is determined that the content information is to be obtained, it is possible to quickly and easily obtain the content information.

Preferably, the electronic mail transfer device includes a transfer mode setting means for setting a transfer mode for transferring an electronic mail, and a transfer mode determining means for determining whether or not the transfer mode is set. The means extracts the address when the transfer mode is set as a result of the determination by the determining means.

Thus, the electronic mail transfer device extracts the address in the received electronic mail only when the electronic mail transfer is set.

An electronic mail transfer method according to the present invention is an electronic mail transfer method using a computer connectable to a terminal and a web server via a network,
Obtaining relevant information related to the information in the received e-mail from the web server, converting the obtained relevant information into a form that can be displayed on a terminal, and converting the converted relevant information into an electronic mail. And forwarding the electronic mail to the terminal.

Thus, even if the terminal to which the e-mail is transferred cannot obtain the relevant information related to the information in the transferred e-mail from the web server,
By converting the related information into a form that can be displayed on the terminal by the electronic mail transfer device, it is possible to quickly check the relevant information related to the information in the electronic mail at the transfer destination terminal.

Preferably, the electronic mail transfer method further includes a step of setting a transfer mode for transferring the electronic mail, and a step of determining whether or not the transfer mode is set. As a result, when the transfer mode is set, relevant information is obtained.

Thus, the electronic mail transfer device can obtain the relevant information of the received electronic mail when the electronic mail transfer is set.

More preferably, the obtaining step includes a step of extracting an address of a web page in the web server from information in the received e-mail, and a step of receiving information of the web page of the address as related information. Including.

Thus, the electronic mail transfer device can obtain the information of the web page of the address indicated in the electronic mail as the relevant information of the received electronic mail.

[0027] More preferably, the information of the web page is information described in HTML. More preferably,
The step of converting includes a step of creating anchor information in which information of an anchor element is converted from information from the received web page.

Thus, the electronic mail transfer device can convert only the anchor element of the received web page into a form that can be displayed by the transfer destination terminal as the relevant information of the received electronic mail.

[0029] More preferably, the method further comprises the step of comparing the information amount of the information converted by the converting step with a predetermined information amount. When the amount of information is larger than the information amount, the anchor information is transferred to the terminal.

Thus, when the amount of information of the web page received by the electronic mail transfer device is large, the electronic mail to be transferred is caused by adding the information converted to a form that can be displayed by the transfer destination terminal to the electronic mail. It is possible to prevent an increase in mail capacity.

An e-mail transfer method according to the present invention is an e-mail transfer method using a computer connectable to a terminal via a network, wherein an address of a web page in a web server is determined from information in a received e-mail. Extracting, and generating, from the extracted address, a command expression for instructing a content conversion server that converts the information of the web page at the extracted address into a form that can be displayed on the terminal, and transmitting the converted information to the terminal. And adding the created command expression to the electronic mail and transferring the electronic mail to the terminal.

Thus, the user of the terminal to which the e-mail has been transferred from the e-mail transfer device confirms the contents of the transferred e-mail, and furthermore, further stores the information of the web page at the address in the e-mail. When it is determined that the content information is to be obtained, it is possible to quickly and easily obtain the content information.

[0033] Preferably, the electronic mail transfer method comprises:
The method includes the steps of: setting a transfer mode for transferring an e-mail; and determining whether the transfer mode is set. The extracting step includes, as a result of the determination, setting an address when the transfer mode is set. Extract.

Thus, the electronic mail transfer device extracts the address in the received electronic mail only when the electronic mail transfer is set.

The storage medium storing the electronic mail transfer program according to the present invention is a storage medium storing a computer-readable electronic mail transfer program to be executed by a computer connectable to a terminal and a web server via a network. Obtaining the relevant information related to the information in the received e-mail from the web server, converting the obtained relevant information into a form that can be displayed on the terminal, and converting the converted relevant information by the converting step. Forwarding the electronic mail to the terminal in addition to the electronic mail.

Thus, even if the terminal to which the e-mail is transferred cannot obtain the relevant information related to the information in the transferred e-mail from the web server,
By converting the related information into a form that can be displayed on the terminal by the electronic mail transfer device, it is possible to quickly check the relevant information related to the information in the electronic mail at the transfer destination terminal.

[0037] Preferably, the electronic mail transfer program further includes a step of setting a transfer mode for transferring the electronic mail, and a step of determining whether or not the transfer mode is set. As a result, when the transfer mode is set, relevant information is obtained.

Thus, the electronic mail transfer device can obtain the relevant information of the received electronic mail when the electronic mail transfer is set.

More preferably, the step of obtaining comprises:
The method includes a step of extracting an address of a web page in the web server from information in the received e-mail, and a step of receiving information of the web page of the address as related information.

Thus, the electronic mail transfer device can obtain the information of the web page at the address indicated in the electronic mail as the relevant information of the received electronic mail.

More preferably, the information of the web page is information described in HTML. More preferably,
The step of converting includes a step of creating anchor information in which information of an anchor element is converted from information from the received web page.

Thus, the electronic mail transfer device can convert only the anchor element of the received web page into a form that can be displayed by the transfer destination terminal as the relevant information of the received electronic mail.

More preferably, the electronic mail transfer program includes a step of comparing the information amount of the information converted in the converting step with a predetermined information amount, and the transferring step includes the step of comparing the converted information as a result of the comparison. When the amount of information is larger than a predetermined amount of information, the anchor information is transferred to the terminal.

In this way, when the amount of information of the web page received by the electronic mail transfer device is large, the electronic mail to be transferred is caused by adding the information converted into a form that can be displayed by the transfer destination terminal to the electronic mail. It is possible to prevent an increase in mail capacity.

The storage medium storing the electronic mail transfer program according to the present invention is a storage medium storing a computer-readable electronic mail transfer program to be executed by a computer connectable to a terminal via a network. The mail transfer program extracts the address of the web page in the web server from the information in the received email, and the content conversion server converts the information of the web page at the extracted address into a form that can be displayed on the terminal. The method includes a step of creating a command expression for instructing transmission of the converted information to the terminal from the extracted address, and a step of adding the created command expression to the e-mail and transferring the e-mail to the terminal.

Thus, the user of the terminal to which the e-mail has been transferred from the e-mail transfer device confirms the contents of the transferred e-mail, and furthermore, further stores the information of the web page at the address in the e-mail. When it is determined that the content information is to be obtained, it is possible to quickly and easily obtain the content information.

Preferably, the electronic mail transfer program includes a step of setting a transfer mode for transferring the electronic mail, and a step of determining whether or not the transfer mode is set. When the transfer mode is set, the address is extracted.

Thus, the electronic mail transfer device extracts the address in the received electronic mail only when the electronic mail transfer is set.

An electronic mail transfer program according to the present invention is an electronic mail transfer program to be executed by a computer connectable to a terminal and a web server via a network, and is a related information relating to information in a received electronic mail. Obtaining the relevant information from the web server, converting the obtained relevant information into a form that can be displayed on the terminal, and adding the relevant information converted by the converting step to the electronic mail and transferring the electronic mail to the terminal. And

Thus, even if the terminal to which the e-mail is transferred cannot obtain the relevant information related to the information in the transferred e-mail from the web server,
By converting the related information into a form that can be displayed on the terminal by the electronic mail transfer device, it is possible to quickly check the relevant information related to the information in the electronic mail at the transfer destination terminal.

An e-mail transfer program according to the present invention is an e-mail transfer program to be executed by a computer connectable to a terminal via a network. The e-mail transfer program converts an information in a received e-mail into a web page in a web server. An address extracting step, and a command formula for instructing a content conversion server for converting the information of the web page of the extracted address into a form that can be displayed on the terminal to transmit the converted information to the terminal is created from the extracted address. And transferring the created command expression to the electronic mail and transferring the electronic mail to the terminal.

Thus, the user of the terminal to which the e-mail has been transferred from the e-mail transfer device confirms the contents of the transferred e-mail, and furthermore, further stores the information of the web page of the address in the e-mail. When it is determined that the content information is to be obtained, it is possible to quickly and easily obtain the content information.

[0053]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. In the drawings, the same or corresponding portions have the same reference characters allotted, and description thereof will not be repeated.

[First Embodiment] FIG. 1 shows the overall configuration of an electronic mail transfer system using an electronic mail transfer device connectable to a terminal and a web server via a network according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a block diagram.

Referring to FIG. 1, electronic mail transfer device 1
Are connected to the transmission terminal 2, the web server 4, and the mobile terminal 3 via the network 5.

The portable terminal 3 may be a terminal of a type other than the portable terminal. As a result, the e-mail transmitted from the transmission terminal 2 is transmitted to the e-mail transfer device 1 via the network 5, and the e-mail is further transferred from the e-mail transfer device 1 to the portable terminal 3 via the network 5. .

The electronic mail transfer device 1 is connected to the network 5
And a central processing unit 12 that is connected to the Internet and transmits and receives e-mails and information in a web page on a web server.

The central processing unit 12 sets whether or not the received e-mail is to be transferred. When the e-mail is to be transferred, the transfer setting unit 22 for specifying the transfer destination and a URL from the received e-mail
Using the received mail analyzing unit 23 for extracting the address, and accessing the web page in the web server 4 using the URL address extracted by the received mail analyzing unit 23, receiving the content information as information in the web page, A URL transmission / reception conversion unit 24 for converting the content into a format that can be displayed on the terminal 3; a database 25 for storing the received e-mail;
And a transfer mail combining unit 21 for combining the content information converted by the L transmitting / receiving unit 24.

The e-mail transfer apparatus 1 installs an e-mail transfer program stored in advance from a computer-readable storage medium (not shown) in which the e-mail transfer program is stored in advance. E-mail transfer processing becomes possible. The e-mail transfer device 1 is provided with an operation system (OS) for enabling the e-mail transfer program to operate.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the electronic mail transfer system according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of an electronic mail transferred according to the present invention, which is executed according to the flowchart of FIG.

Referring to FIG. 2, the user of e-mail transfer device 1 sets in transfer setting section 22 whether or not the e-mail received by e-mail transfer device 1 in step S1 is to be transferred to another terminal. Do. Here, when the user sets to transfer the e-mail received by the e-mail transfer device 1 to another terminal, the user also sets the address of the portable terminal 3 as the transfer destination. The setting is performed using a keyboard (not shown) of the electronic mail transfer device 1 or the like.

As shown in FIG. 3, the contents of the main text are sent from the transmitting terminal 2 such as the personal computer of the sender A to the receiver B, and the result of the presidential election is "http: // news /".
Is sent, step S2 in FIG.
Then, the e-mail is received by the e-mail transfer device 1 of the recipient B from the transmission terminal 2 via the network 5. After receiving the e-mail, the e-mail transfer device 1 executes step S
In step 3, a URL address is extracted from the body of the electronic mail received by the received mail analyzing unit 23.

Subsequently, in step S4, the e-mail transfer device 1 determines whether or not transfer of the received e-mail is set. If it is determined in step S4 that there is no transfer setting, the received e-mail is sent to step S5.
Is once stored in the database 25 in the electronic mail transfer device 1 of the receiver B. When the recipient B wants to confirm the contents of the e-mail, the contents are displayed on a display (not shown) of the e-mail transfer device 1.

On the other hand, if the transfer setting section 22 in the e-mail transfer apparatus 1 has set the transfer to the portable terminal 3 in step S1, the received mail is analyzed from the received e-mail in step S6. U extracted by the unit 23
E-mail transfer device 1 determines whether RL address exists
It is confirmed by the URL transmission / reception conversion unit 24 within. If the URL address does not exist, the received e-mail is directly transferred to the portable terminal 3 via the network 5 in step S11. On the other hand, if the extracted URL address exists, the URL transmission / reception conversion unit 24 accesses the web server 4 including the web page of the extracted URL address from the communication unit 11 via the network 5 in step S7. For example, in the case of FIG. 3, the e-mail received in step S2 is "The result of the presidential election is http: // news /
There. ”, The URL address“ HYPERLINK “http: // news /” http: // news / ”is used in step S3.
Is extracted, and the web server 4 including the web page of the URL address is accessed in step 7.

Subsequently, in step S8, the URL transmission / reception conversion unit 24 receives the content information which is the information of the web page of the web server 4, and converts the content conversion which is the conversion of the received content information in step S9 to the URL transmission / reception conversion unit 24. Perform in. The content information received from the web server 4 by the URL transmission / reception converter 24 is HTML page data. Therefore, the content conversion performed in step S9 is performed by removing the HTML tag and converting it to text. As a procedure for removing the HTML tag, text data is read, and text data is deleted until it starts with “<” and ends with “>”. For example, in the case of FIG. 3, the content information received by the URL transmission / reception converter 24 in step S8 is "<html> Latest news. <A href =" head.html "
> Texas is dominated by BB candidates, California is G
Is it a G candidate? ", The content information in the content conversion in step S9 is" Latest news. Texas has a BB candidate dominant, and California has a GG candidate or confusion. "

After the content conversion in step S9 is completed, the electronic mail received in step S10 and the contents of the converted content information are combined by the transfer mail combining unit 21, and the combined electronic mail in step S11 is transmitted to the mobile phone. Transfer to terminal 4. For example, the contents of the e-mail transferred to the mobile terminal 4 are as shown in 30 in FIG.

In the content conversion in step S9, "HYPERLINK" http: // n
If a voice file is specified by an address such as ews / "http: //news/voice.wav", the voice file may be attached in step S10. In this case, in the transferred form terminal 3, the part attached to the e-mail, that is, FIG.
The contents after <attachment> in the above 30 are voiced.

The URL address included in the body of the received e-mail is "HYPERLINK" http: // news / "htt
If the data is spreadsheet software such as "p: //news/data.xls", the table data is converted into CSV format (comma-separated format) text data by content conversion in step S9, and the e-mail is sent in step S10. It is also possible to attach to.

As described above, according to this embodiment, the user who has set the transfer to the portable terminal can send the e-mail to the electronic mail transfer device 1 even if the portable terminal does not have a function of accessing the web page of the web server. By transferring the e-mail to which the content information of the web page subjected to the content conversion is added, the content of the web page of the URL address can be immediately grasped.

[Second Embodiment] The embodiment of the present invention has been described above. However, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and may be embodied in other forms.

In the above embodiment, a large amount of text data may be transmitted as content information of a web page transmitted from a web server to a PC. As a result, if the result of content conversion by the URL transmission / reception conversion unit 24 is added to the electronic mail, the amount of information of the electronic mail to be transferred may be enormous. Therefore, if the amount of content information received from the web server 4 by the e-mail transfer device 1 is larger than the set amount of information, only the information summarizing the content information is attached to the e-mail and transferred to the terminal. do it. Hereinafter, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with a focus on differences from the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the electronic mail transfer system according to the second embodiment of the present invention. Here, instead of step S9 in the flowchart shown in FIG. 2, a step S90 is provided in which all the content information of the received web page is converted, and only a part of the content information of the received web page is converted. Step S1 of setting a prescribed information amount serving as a reference for judging the target of content conversion based on the information amount of the accessed web page
2 and when the content information of the web page is received,
Step S91 for determining whether or not the content information amount is larger than the prescribed information amount is added.

Referring to FIG. 4, the receiver sets the transfer mode in step S1, and subsequently determines in step S12 whether or not to convert the content information of the received web page based on the amount of the content information. Of the specified information amount as a reference for the setting is performed. The standard for the prescribed information amount can be set based on the number of characters,
The setting can be performed based on the number of words.
Is set by

Subsequently, the operation from the reception of the e-mail in step S2 to the reception of the content information of the web page in step S8 is the same as that of FIG. 2, and therefore, description thereof will not be repeated.

After receiving the content information in step S8,
In step S90, content conversion is performed for all of the received content information as the first step. Next, as the second step, the anchor element of the hyperlinked portion is extracted from the received content information, and the content of the extracted anchor element is converted. Anchor elements are <a href=""> and </
It refers to a character string enclosed by a>. For example, in FIG. 3, the content information received by the e-mail transfer device 1 from the web server 4 is "<html> Latest news. <A href =" h
ead.html> Texas is dominated by BB candidates, California is a GG candidate </a>. "
If so, in step S90, the anchor element “<a
href = "head.html> Texas is dominated by the BB candidate, California is a GG candidate </a>", and the extracted anchor elements are converted into content.

Subsequently, in step S91, step S90
The amount of information converted in the first stage of step S1 is
It is determined whether or not it is larger than the standard information amount set in step 2.

If the result of the determination in step S91 is that the amount of information converted in the first stage is smaller than the prescribed amount of information, the electronic mail transfer apparatus 1 receives the information converted in the first stage in step S101 and receives the information. The combined electronic mail is created by the forwarded mail synthesizing unit 21. on the other hand,
If the amount of information converted in the first stage is larger than the prescribed amount of information, the electronic mail transfer device 1 proceeds to step S10
In step 2, the information converted in the second step and the received e-mail are combined. Subsequent operations are the same as those in FIG. 2, and therefore description thereof will not be repeated.

As described above, according to this embodiment, when the content information amount of the received web page is large,
It is possible to prevent an increase in the capacity of the transferred e-mail caused by adding the converted content information to the e-mail.

[Third Embodiment] Instead of performing the content conversion by the electronic mail transfer device 1, it is also possible to perform the content conversion by a content conversion server on the Internet. Hereinafter, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described focusing on differences from the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 shows an overall configuration of an electronic mail transfer system using an electronic mail transfer device connectable to a terminal, a web server, and a content conversion server via a network according to a third embodiment of the present invention. FIG.

Referring to FIG. 5, electronic mail transfer device 1 includes a URL conversion unit 26 instead of URL transmission / reception conversion unit 24 in electronic mail transfer device 1 in FIG. Also,
The mobile terminal 3 can be connected to the content conversion server 27 via the network 5.

Since the other structure is the same as that of FIG. 1, description thereof will not be repeated. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the electronic mail transfer system according to the third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of an electronic mail transferred according to the present invention, which is executed according to the flowchart of FIG.

Referring to FIG. 6, the operation from the setting of the transfer mode in step S1 by electronic mail transfer apparatus 1 to the confirmation in step S6 of the presence or absence of a URL in the received electronic mail is not shown. 2, the description will not be repeated.

If the URL exists in step S6,
The URL extracted from the e-mail in step S13 is transmitted from the mobile terminal 3 to the content server 27.
URL that can instruct to convert the content information of the web page of the L address into a format that can be displayed on the mobile terminal 3
Converted to an expression. For example, in the case of FIG.
In step S6, the URL address "HYPERLINK" htt is used, using the text extracted from the e-mail received at step S6, "The results of the presidential election are at http: // news /."
p: // news / "http: // news /" is extracted, and step S13 is performed.
At "HYPERLINK" http: // news / "http: // transform / t
rans? url = http: // news / ". Here, "HYPERLINK" http: // news / "http: // tra
“nsform /” is the URL address of the content conversion server 4.

The operation of electronic mail transfer device 10 after step S13 is the same as that of FIG. 2, and therefore description thereof will not be repeated.

The e-mail transmitted from the e-mail transfer device 1 in step S11 is received by the portable terminal 3 in step S21, and is displayed on a display (not shown) on the portable terminal 3 in step S22. The content of the displayed e-mail is the content shown at 40 in FIG.

Subsequently, in step S23, the user of the portable terminal 3 transmits a URL expression added to the e-mail from the portable terminal 3 to the content conversion server 4 via the network, thereby giving a content conversion instruction.

After receiving the content conversion instruction from the portable terminal 3 in step S31, the content conversion server 27 extracts the URL address of the web server 4 to be accessed from the URL formula received in step S32. For example, FIG.
, The user B makes the U on the display of the mobile terminal 3
RL expression "HYPERLINK" http: // news / "http: // tra
The content conversion server 27 is accessed using “nsform / trans? url = http: // news /”. In step S32, the content conversion server 27 sets the URL expression “HYPERLINK
"http: // news /" http: // transform / trans? url = http: //
"HYPERLINK" http: // news / "which is the address of the web server 4 including the web page to be accessed from" news / "
http: // news / ".

The content conversion server 27 determines the extracted U
In step S33, the web server 4 including the web page to be accessed using the RL is accessed in step S33.
At 4, the content information on the web page of the web server 4 is received. Subsequently, the content conversion server 27 performs content conversion in step S35 using the received content information. The method of content conversion is the same as step S9 in FIG. 2, and therefore, description thereof will not be repeated.

[0092] The content information whose content has been converted in step S35 is transmitted from the content conversion server 27 to the portable terminal 3 in step S36. For example, in FIG. 7, if the content information received from the web server 4 by the content conversion server 27 is the content indicated by 50, the content conversion server 27 performs the content conversion in step S35, and the content is converted to the content indicated by 60 in FIG. The contents are transmitted to the mobile terminal 3.

The portable terminal 3 receives the converted contents information transmitted from the contents conversion server 27 in step S24, and displays the converted contents information received in step S25 on the display of the portable terminal 3.

As described above, according to this embodiment, after confirming the contents of the e-mail transferred to the portable terminal, the user can determine the URL format attached to the e-mail from the contents of the e-mail text. When it is determined that the user wants to further obtain the content information of the web page at the address of the user, the content information can be quickly and easily obtained by accessing the content conversion server using the URL expression.

The e-mail transfer system described above
This is realized by a program for causing the electronic mail transfer process to function.

The subject of the present invention may be the program itself or a computer-readable storage medium storing the program.

In the present invention, the storage medium may be a memory (not shown), such as a ROM, which is necessary for the processing to be performed by the electronic mail transfer device 1 shown in FIG. 1 or FIG. Alternatively, although not shown, a program reading device may be provided outside the electronic mail transfer device 1 and may be a storage device that can be read by inserting a storage medium into the program reading device. In any case, the stored program may be configured to be accessed and executed by the e-mail transfer device 1, or in any case, the program may be read, and the read program may be read by the e-mail transfer device. 1 may be loaded into a program storage area (not shown) and the program may be executed. It is assumed that the loading program is stored in the electronic mail transfer device 1 in advance.

Here, the storage medium is configured to be separable from the electronic mail transfer device 1, and includes a tape system such as a magnetic tape and a cassette tape, a magnetic disk such as a floppy (registered trademark) disk and a hard disk, a CD-ROM, M
A fixed electronic mail transfer program including a disk system of optical disks such as O, MD, and DVD, a card system such as an IC card, a memory card, and an optical card, or a semiconductor memory such as a mask ROM, an EPROM, an EEPROM, and a flash ROM. It may be a storage medium.

Further, in the present invention, since the system configuration can be connected to a network such as the Internet, the medium may be a medium that stores the program in a fluid manner such that the electronic mail transfer program is downloaded from the network. When the program is downloaded from the network as described above, the download program may be installed in the e-mail transfer device 1 in advance, or may be installed from another storage medium.

The contents stored in the storage medium are not limited to programs, but may be data.

In the present invention, the program
The processing itself executed by the electronic mail transfer device 1 shown in FIG. 1 or FIG. 5 may be performed, or the processing may be performed by accessing a network including the Internet, or may be performed by the processing. Good or it may be sent from here. Further, based on the loaded program, the e-mail transfer device 1
, That is, generated. Alternatively, it may be a result of processing in the electronic mail transfer device 1 when sending it out, that is, a generated one.

Note that these are not limited to programs and may be data. The embodiments disclosed this time are to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive. The scope of the present invention is defined by the terms of the claims, rather than the embodiments described above, and is intended to include any modifications within the scope and meaning equivalent to the terms of the claims.

[0103]

According to the present invention, even if the received e-mail contains the address of the web page and the destination terminal cannot display the web page of the address contained in the received e-mail, An electronic mail transfer device that enables a user using a terminal that cannot display a web page at an address included in a received electronic mail to quickly confirm the content of the web page by converting the content information of the electronic mail into a content; A mail transfer method and an electronic mail transfer program can be provided.

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FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of an electronic mail transfer system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation of the electronic mail transfer system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an operation example of the electronic mail transfer system shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation of the electronic mail transfer system according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of an electronic mail transfer system according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an operation of the electronic mail transfer system according to the third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an operation example by the electronic mail transfer program shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 E-mail transfer device, 2 transmission terminal, 3 portable terminal, 4 web server, 5 network, 11 communication unit, 12 central processing unit, 21 forwarded mail synthesis unit, 22
Forward setting unit, 23 Received mail analysis unit, 24 URL
A transmission / reception converter, 25 database, 26 URL converter, 27 content conversion server.

Claims (26)

[Claims] 1. An electronic mail transfer device connectable to a terminal and a web server via a network, comprising: information obtaining means for obtaining, from the web server, relevant information related to information in a received electronic mail; Information conversion means for converting the obtained relevant information into a form that can be displayed on the terminal; transfer means for adding the relevant information converted by the information conversion means to the electronic mail and transferring the electronic mail to the terminal; An email transfer device, including: 2. The electronic mail transfer device further includes: a transfer mode setting unit that sets a transfer mode for transferring the electronic mail; and a transfer mode determination unit that determines whether the transfer mode is set. 2. The electronic mail transfer device according to claim 1, wherein the information obtaining unit obtains the related information when the transfer mode is set as a result of the determination by the transfer mode determining unit. 3. The information obtaining unit extracts an address of a web page in the web server from information in a received e-mail, and receives information of the web page at the address as the related information. The electronic mail transfer device according to claim 1, further comprising information receiving means. 4. The information from the web page is HTML
The electronic mail transfer device according to claim 3, wherein the electronic mail transfer device is the information described in (1). 5. The electronic mail transfer device according to claim 4, wherein the information conversion unit further includes an anchor element conversion unit that creates anchor information obtained by converting an anchor element of the received web page information. . 6. The electronic mail transfer device further includes a comparison unit that compares the information amount of the information converted by the information conversion unit with a predetermined information amount, wherein the transfer unit performs the comparison by the comparison unit. The e-mail transfer device according to claim 5, wherein the anchor information is transferred to the terminal when the information amount of the converted information is larger than a predetermined information amount. 7. An electronic mail transfer device connectable to a terminal via a network, comprising: address extracting means for extracting an address of a web page in a web server from information in a received electronic mail; A content conversion server that converts the information of the web page into a form that can be displayed on the terminal,
A command formula creating means for creating a command formula for sending the converted information to the terminal from the extracted address; and adding the created command formula to the e-mail to send the e-mail to the terminal. An e-mail transfer device, comprising: 8. The electronic mail transfer device further includes: a transfer mode setting unit that sets a transfer mode for transferring the electronic mail; and a transfer mode determination unit that determines whether the transfer mode is set. 8. The electronic mail transfer device according to claim 7, wherein the address extraction unit extracts the address when the transfer mode is set as a result of the determination by the determination unit. 9. An electronic mail transfer method using a computer connectable to a terminal and a web server via a network, the method comprising: obtaining, from the web server, relevant information related to information in a received electronic mail. Converting the obtained relevant information into a form that can be displayed on the terminal; and adding the relevant information converted by the converting step to the electronic mail and transferring the electronic mail to the terminal. Including, e-mail transfer methods. 10. The method according to claim 10, further comprising: setting a transfer mode for transferring the e-mail; and determining whether the transfer mode is set. The obtaining includes: Obtaining the relevant information when the transfer mode is set,
The electronic mail transfer method according to claim 9. 11. The obtaining step includes: extracting an address of a web page in the web server from information in a received e-mail; and receiving information of a web page at the address as the related information. The electronic mail transfer method according to claim 9, comprising: 12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the information of the web page is information described in HTML. 13. The electronic mail transfer method according to claim 12, wherein the converting step further includes a step of creating anchor information obtained by converting an anchor element among information from the received web page. 14. The method according to claim 14, further comprising the step of comparing the information amount of the information converted by the converting step with a predetermined information amount. The anchor information is transferred to the terminal when the amount of information is larger than a predetermined amount of information.
Email transfer method as described in. 15. An electronic mail transfer method using a computer connectable to a terminal via a network, comprising: extracting an address of a web page in a web server from information in a received electronic mail; A content conversion server that converts the information of the web page at the address into a form that can be displayed on the terminal,
Creating a command expression for instructing transmission of the converted information to the terminal from the extracted address; adding the created command expression to the e-mail and transferring the e-mail to the terminal And e-mail transfer method. 16. The method according to claim 16, further comprising: setting a transfer mode for transferring the electronic mail; and determining whether the transfer mode is set. The extracting includes: Extracting the address when the mode is set,
The electronic mail transfer method according to claim 15. 17. A storage medium storing a computer-readable e-mail transfer program to be executed by a computer connectable to a terminal and a web server via a network, wherein the e-mail transfer program comprises Obtaining relevant information related to the information in the mail from the web server; converting the obtained relevant information into a form that can be displayed on the terminal; and converting the relevant information converted by the converting step to the Transferring the electronic mail to the terminal in addition to the electronic mail, the computer-readable storage medium storing an electronic mail transfer program. 18. The electronic mail transfer program further comprises: setting a transfer mode for transferring the electronic mail; and determining whether the transfer mode is set. Obtaining the relevant information when the transfer mode is set as a result of the determination;
A storage medium storing the electronic mail transfer program according to claim 17. 19. The obtaining step includes: extracting an address of a web page in the web server from information in a received e-mail; and receiving information of the web page at the address as the related information. 18. A storage medium storing the electronic mail transfer program according to claim 17, comprising: 20. The storage medium according to claim 19, wherein the information of the web page is information described in HTML. 21. The electronic mail transfer program according to claim 20, wherein the converting step further includes a step of creating anchor information obtained by converting an anchor element among information from the received web page. Storage media. 22. The electronic mail transfer program further includes a step of comparing an information amount of the information converted in the converting step with a predetermined information amount, wherein the transferring step includes: 22. The anchor information is transferred to the terminal when the information amount of the converted information is larger than a predetermined information amount.
A storage medium storing the e-mail transfer program described in 1. 23. A storage medium storing a computer-readable e-mail transfer program to be executed by a computer connectable to a terminal via a network, wherein the e-mail transfer program includes: Extracting a web page address in the web server from the information; and a content conversion server for converting the web page information of the extracted address into a form that can be displayed on the terminal.
Creating a command expression for instructing transmission of the converted information to the terminal from the extracted address; adding the created command expression to the e-mail and transferring the e-mail to the terminal And a storage medium storing an e-mail transfer program. 24. The e-mail transfer program further includes: setting a transfer mode for transferring the e-mail; and determining whether the transfer mode is set. Extracting the address when the transfer mode is set as a result of the determination;
A storage medium storing the electronic mail transfer program according to claim 23. 25. An electronic mail transfer program to be executed by a computer connectable to a terminal and a web server via a network, wherein related information relating to information in the received electronic mail is obtained from the web server. Converting the obtained relevant information into a form that can be displayed on the terminal; and adding the relevant information converted by the converting step to the electronic mail and transferring the electronic mail to the terminal. And an email transfer program, including: 26. An e-mail transfer program to be executed by a computer connectable to a terminal via a network, the method comprising: extracting an address of a web page in a web server from information in the received e-mail; A content conversion server that converts the information of the web page of the extracted address into a form that can be displayed on the terminal,
Creating a command expression for instructing transmission of the converted information to the terminal from the extracted address; adding the created command expression to the e-mail and transferring the e-mail to the terminal An email transfer program, including steps.