JPH05252199A - Electronic mail system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To know whether or not an electronic mail is received in the electronic mail system which sends and receives electronic mails without accessing a computer system by connecting user terminals and the computer by a telephone communication network by utilizing the computer system. CONSTITUTION:Users make access from the terminals through the telephone communication network 9 and are connected to a central processing unit 1 through modems 6-1 to 6-n, NCUs 5-1 to 5-n, and a communication processor 4. Electronic mails thus accessed are stored in an electronic mail storage device 2. The user who wishes for the reporting of electronic mail arrival by a telephone registers the telephone number of a reception reported destination in a telephone number storage device 3. The central processing unit 1 once knowing that the user to whom the electronic mail arrives is registered for the reception reporting service by a telephone takes the registered telephone number out and sends it to a speech reporting device 7, which reports the arrival of the electronic mail through the NCU 8 and telephone network 9.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic mail system, and more particularly to an electronic mail system using a computer system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As one of the usage modes of a computer system, there is an electronic mail system in which a computer user's terminal and a computer are connected by a communication circuit such as a telephone communication network to send and receive a mail between computer users. .

In the conventional electronic mail system, transmission / reception of electronic mail is executed as follows.

The e-mail sender creates an e-mail at the user's terminal and sends it together with the identification number of the recipient to the computer through the communication line.

In the computer system, the sent electronic mail is received, and the received electronic mail and the identification number of the recipient are stored in the storage device.

[0006] The computer system notifies the user that a mail has arrived when the user at the mail destination receives the computer system from the terminal.

Next, at the request of the user who receives the mail, the electronic mail stored in the storage device of the computer system is transmitted from the computer system to the user's terminal through the incoming line.

As described above, the conventional electronic mail system does not include the function of voluntarily notifying the electronic mail destination user of the arrival of electronic mail.

[0009]

In this conventional electronic mail system, only the electronic mail sent from the user is stored in the computer system, and the incoming mail notification is given to the user at the destination. The user at the e-mail recipient cannot know that the e-mail has arrived until he / she accesses the computer system.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems and to provide an electronic mail system in which the user of the destination of the electronic mail can know the incoming of the electronic mail without having to access the computer system. is there.

[0011]

The electronic mail system of the present invention stores an electronic mail storage device for storing electronic mail sent by a user and an electronic mail destination telephone number registered by the user. The storage device for storing telephone numbers, and the voice communication device capable of calling the telephone number registered in the storage device for storing telephone numbers in the previous period and notifying the arrival of the electronic mail by voice.

[0012]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

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

FIG. 1 shows a central processing unit 1, an electronic mail storage device 2, a telephone number storage device 3 for storing a telephone number registered by a user, and a telephone communication network 9 for a user.
N-channel modems 6-1 to 6-n, NCU (Network) for accessing e-mail via
(Control Unit, network control device) 5-1 to 5-
n, a communication processing device 4 that processes a signal that is accessed under the control of the central processing unit 1, and a voice that enables voice notification to a user who wants to notify by telephone of the arrival of an electronic mail. A notification device 7 and an NCU 8 are provided, and a telephone communication network 9 is also shown in FIG.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.

The electronic mail user accesses the electronic mail system shown in FIG. 1 from the user's terminal via the telephone communication network 9.

The user's terminal and the electronic mail system are
Via the telephone communication network 9, modems 6-1 to 6-n,
It is connected to the central processing unit 1 via the NCUs 5-1 to 5-n and the communication processing unit 4.

A user who wishes to receive an incoming call notification of an electronic mail by telephone, after connecting to the electronic mail system according to the above-mentioned procedure, has a conversation with the central processing unit 1 and a telephone number of a communication notification destination and the number of registration and incoming notifications. And so on.

Data such as the communication notification destination telephone number and the number of incoming call notifications set by the user are stored in the telephone number storage device 3 under the control of the central processing unit 1.

In this way, when an electronic mail is sent from another user to a user who has registered the notification of the electronic mail by telephone, the central processing unit 1 stores the electronic mail in the storage device 2 for storage. Then, the storage device 3 for storing the telephone number is accessed to check whether or not the user having the identification number having the email has registered the email incoming notification service by telephone.

When it is determined that the user of the incoming e-mail has registered the e-mail incoming notification service by telephone, the central processing unit 1 retrieves the registered telephone number from the telephone number storage device 3. And sends it to the voice notification device 9 to activate the voice notification device 9.

Next, the voice notifying device 9 makes a call to the designated telephone number, and notifies the user by voice that the electronic mail has arrived when the other party responds.

[0023]

As described above, according to the present invention, the e-mail sent from the user and the e-mail arrival notification destination telephone number registered by the user are accumulated, and the e-mail is sent to the registered telephone number. By notifying the arrival of e-mail by telephone, it is possible to notify the arrival of e-mail by telephone to the user who wishes to be notified by e-mail. , It has an effect that it is possible to fundamentally eliminate the state that the user cannot know whether or not the mail has arrived until the user accesses the electronic mail system.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Central Processing Unit 2 Storage Device for E-mail Storage 3 Storage Device for Telephone Number Storage 4 Communication Processing Device 5-1 to 5-n NCU 6-1 to 6-n Modem 7 Voice Notification Device 8 NCU

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An electronic mail storage storage device for storing an electronic mail sent by a user, a telephone number storage storage device for storing a telephone number of an email destination of a user registration, and the telephone number storage. An electronic mail system comprising: a voice communication device capable of calling a telephone number registered in a storage device for use and notifying an incoming call of an electronic mail by voice.