KR19990068536A - An E-mail Checker and an E-mail check phone - Google Patents

Abstract

The electronic mail checking apparatus of the present invention is for automatically checking whether an electronic mail has been received and includes a mail check manager, a mail check timer, and a mail analyzer. The mail check manager reads the login ID, login password, URL information to be searched in the mail registry file, and creates a dialog indicating the mail check status and progress. The mail check timer creates a thread on a time basis set based on the login ID, password, and URL to be searched by the mail check manager. Based on the thread received from the mail check timer, the mail analyzer accesses the mail server or the URL and analyzes whether the mail has been received and the number of received mails.

Such an electronic mail check apparatus automatically checks whether an electronic mail has been received and, if received, sends it to the mail check telephone of the present invention. Thus, the user can check whether the mail is checked through the telephone as well as the computer.

Description

An E-mail Checker and an E-mail Check Phone

The present invention relates to an e-mail check device and an e-mail check phone. In particular, the present invention relates to an e-mail check device and an e-mail check phone. An electronic mail check apparatus and an electronic mail check telephone.

Recently, due to the development of Internet technology, it is common to transmit and receive necessary news and files through electronic mail.

However, conventionally, there was no function of automatically checking that an e-mail arrived when an e-mail arrived. Therefore, the user had to check whether an e-mail came by direct access to a mail confirmation program. In particular, when a user receives mails from multiple mail servers, the user has to check a large number of mail servers, which is a lot of trouble, and it takes a lot of time to check mail.

In addition, conventionally, when an e-mail is received on a computer, the electronic device other than the computer, for example, a telephone, etc., has not been notified that the e-mail has arrived. Accordingly, when the user is away from the computer for a long time, it is confirmed that the e-mail has arrived. Could not. As a result, they could not quickly respond to urgent e-mail.

The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to solve this problem, and when the e-mail arrives it can be confirmed that the e-mail automatically arrived, and also a mail check device that can confirm that the e-mail has arrived from a plurality of mail servers It is to provide.

In addition, the present invention is to provide an e-mail check telephone that can easily confirm that the e-mail has arrived even if the user is away from the computer for a long time by checking whether the e-mail has been received by the telephone.

1 is a diagram showing an electronic mail checking apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a view showing a mail arrival notification device connected to the electronic mail check apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an automatic mail check telephone and its peripheral device according to an embodiment of the present invention in which the mail arrival notification device of FIG. 2 is mounted.

In order to achieve the above object, the electronic mail checking apparatus according to the present invention automatically checks whether an electronic mail is received.

A mail check manager that reads a login ID, a login password, URL information to be searched stored in a registry file, and generates a dialog indicating a mail check status and a progress status; A mail check timer for generating a thread on a time basis set based on a login ID, a password, and a URL to be inquired by the mail check manager; And a mail analyzer that analyzes whether the mail is received and the number of received mails by accessing the mail server or the URL based on the thread received from the mail check timer.

Here, the mail check timer may generate a thread for receiving POP 3 mail and web mail, respectively, and send the thread to the mail analyzer.

At this time, the mail analyzer accesses the corresponding mail server through the ID and password existing in the thread to check whether the POP 3 mail is received, checks the number of POP3 mails, and then checks the number of POP 3 mails through the thread. Informs the mail check timer to check whether the web mail is received, accesses the corresponding server, receives the HTML document, finds the HTML document with the URL to log in, and uses the ID and password read from the registry file. Log in to the HTML document to check the number of mails.

On the other hand, the mail check timer receives the mail arrival and the number of mails from the mail analyzer to display the mail arrival and the number of mails on the tray of the screen.

In addition, the electronic mail check apparatus of the present invention may further include an RS-232 signal management device for notifying the reception of the mail to the outside via the RS-232C cable when receiving the mail reception signal from the mail check timer.

On the other hand, the e-mail check telephone according to a feature of the present invention

A connector connected to a computer in which an e-mail checking device for automatically checking whether e-mail is received or not is installed; A cable connected to the connector; And an e-mail arrival notification device connected to the e-mail check device through the first cable and the connector, and notifying the reception of the e-mail through melody or lighting when the e-mail check device confirms receipt of the e-mail. It includes a telephone body.

The mail arrival notification device may include a melody / LED driver coupled to an RS-232C cable connected to a computer and driving a buzzer or an LED when a mail is received by the electronic mail device. In this case, the connector may be equipped with a battery for supplying a voltage for operating the melody / LED driver.

Hereinafter, with reference to the drawings will be described an embodiment of the present invention;

1 is a diagram showing an electronic mail checking apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. The electronic mail checking apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention simultaneously checks two types of mails, namely POP 3 (post office protocol 3) mail and web mail. POP 3 mails are generally mails received via an electronic mail server, and embodiments of the present invention receive these POP 3 mails using existing POP 3 protocols. Web mail is mail received through a web browser. According to an embodiment of the present invention, an HTML document is first analyzed by using a hyper text transfer protocol (HTTP) protocol to receive a hypertext markup language (HTML) document to analyze and log in an HTML document. Find the document. When you find an HTML document to log in to, you automatically log in to it, receive the HTML document again, and check the status of the mail in the received HTML document.

As shown in FIG. 1, the electronic mail check apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a mail check manager 120, a mail check timer 140, a mail analyzer 160, and an RS-232C signal management device ( 180).

The mail check manager 120 manages the initialization and overall operation of the electronic mail check apparatus and performs the following operations.

First, the mail check manager 120 initializes a socket, which is a passage for sending and receiving e-mail, and displays a tray icon indicating whether the mail has arrived and the number of mails received on the bottom of the screen of the computer monitor. Create

Second, the mail check manager 120 generates a dialog which is a screen configuration for displaying the mail check status and progress on the screen. This dialog box displays the URL (uniform resource locator) where the mail exists, the number of mails, and the mail types.

Third, the mail check manager 120 reads login information stored in a registry file, that is, a login ID, a login password, and a uniform resource locator (URL) to be queried.

Fourth, the mail check manager 120 generates and manages a message (mail account, search time, progress status, result, etc.) to be transmitted to the screen and the COM port.

The mail check timer 140 manages a thread for operating the electronic mail check device and operates as follows.

First, the mail check timer 140 manages a thread. The thread checker 140 creates a thread at a predetermined time unit (for example, 5 minutes) and transmits the thread to the mail analyzer 160. When the thread ends, the thread is removed. .

Second, the mail check timer 140 outputs a message on a tray by a setting variable set by a thread, and specifically, outputs a mail count and a mail account list on the tray. At this time, according to an embodiment of the present invention, even if the user does not click on the icon in the tray, only the mouse shows the account name and the mail check result.

Third, the mail check timer 140 creates a thread for POP3 mail and web mail, selects POP 3 mail and web mail, and sends and receives POP 3 mail and web mail.

Fourth, the mail check timer 140 transmits a signal indicating whether the mail is received to the RS-232C signal management device 180 at a set time unit.

The mail analyzer 160 receives a thread from the mail check timer 140 and accesses the mail server and the URL. Then, the mail analyzer 160 checks the number of mails by receiving the POP 3 mail and the web mail in the following manner, and then informs the mail check timer 140 of the mail whether or not the mail is received through the thread.

That is, the mail analyzer 160 accesses the mail server through the ID and password existing in the thread to receive the POP 3 mail, checks the number of POP3 mails, and informs the thread. In addition, the mail analyzer 160 accesses the corresponding server to check the web mail, receives the HTML document, and then checks the document related to the e-mail. If the document is related to e-mail, the number of web mails is checked and the thread is notified.

The mail check timer 140 checks the mail arrival and the number of mails received from the mail analyzer 160, displays information on the screen on the tray of the screen, and simultaneously receives the mail with the RS-232C signal management device 180. Whether to send a signal.

When the RS-232C signal management device 180 receives the mail reception signal from the mail check timer 140, the RS-232C signal management device notifies the mail arrival notification device connected to the computer through the RS-232C cable and informs the reception of the mail and the number of mails.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the electronic mail checking apparatus 100 described above is implemented as actual software, and when the software is installed in a computer, the above functions are performed.

2 is a view showing a mail arrival notification device connected to the electronic mail check apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, according to the mail arrival notification device 200 according to the embodiment of the present invention, the anode of the diode D1 is connected to one of the RS-232C cables connected to the COM port of a computer (not shown). It is connected to the terminal B. Resistors R1 and R2 are connected in series to the cathode of the diode D1. The zener diode ZD1 is connected between the contact between the resistors R1 and R2 and ground. This zener diode clamps the voltage of the contact so that the voltage of the contact between the resistors R1 and R2 does not exceed a predetermined voltage, that is, the zener breakdown voltage. The melody / LED driver 210 is connected to the resistor R2, and the buzzer 220 and the light emitting diode 230 are connected to the melody / LED driver 210, respectively. The melody / LED driver 210 drives the buzzer 220 and the LED when the voltages of the resistors R1 and R2 are greater than or equal to a predetermined voltage, thereby informing whether the mail is received. The battery 240 is connected to the melody / LED driver 210 and the LED 230 to supply a power supply voltage.

Next, an automatic mail check operation according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

First, the user sets in advance in the registry file an ID, password, mail check time interval and the like for accessing the mail server and server to which the mail is checked.

Next, the mail check manager 120 reads login information stored in a registry file, that is, a login ID, a login password, and a uniform resource locator (URL) to be queried.

The mail check timer 140 creates a thread based on the read ID, the password, and the URL to be inquired, and then transmits the thread to the mail analyzer 160. The mail analyzer 160 analyzes the reception of the POP3 mail and the web mail, the number of received mails, etc. after accessing the mail server and the URL based on the thread received from the mail check timer 140.

That is, the mail analyzer 160 accesses the mail server through the ID and password existing in the thread to receive the POP 3 mail, checks the number of POP3 mails, and informs the mail check timer 140 through the thread.

In addition, the mail analyzer 160 accesses the corresponding server to check the web mail, receives the HTML document, and then analyzes the HTML document. In this case, the mail analyzer 160 repeatedly receives the HTML document and analyzes the document until the URL having the HTML document to log in is found. When you find an HTML document to log in, you automatically log in using the ID and password that you read from a pre-stored registry file, receive the HTML document again, and analyze the document repeatedly until you find the mail status. When the HTML document with the number of mails is found, the number of mails is checked and the mail check timer 140 is notified through the thread.

When the mail check timer 140 checks whether the mail has arrived and the number of mails, the mail check timer 140 displays information about the mail on the tray of the screen and transmits the received mail to the RS-232C signal management device 180.

When the RS-232C signal management device 180 receives the mail reception signal from the mail check timer 140, the RS-232C signal management device 180 transmits a high signal to the mail arrival notification device 200 through the RS-232C cable. When the melody / LED driver 210 of the mail arrival notification device 200 receives the signal of the high state from the RS-232C signal management device 180, the buzzer and the LED are driven to notify the user that the mail has arrived. At this time, the sound of the buzzer and the number of lighting LEDs are determined according to the number of mails received.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an automatic mail check phone 300 and a peripheral device according to an embodiment of the present invention in which the mail arrival notification device 200 shown in FIG. 2 is mounted.

In FIG. 3, the automatic mail check telephone 300 is equipped with the mail arrival notification device 200 shown in FIG. 2 except for the battery 240. As shown in FIG.

The automatic mail check telephone 300 is connected to the connector 260 via a first cable 282 and to a telephone line terminal 286 via a second cable 284. Telephone line terminal 286 receives ring signals and voice signals transmitted from telephone stations. The connector 260 is connected to a COM port of the computer, and receives a mail reception signal from the RS-232C signal management device 180 of the automatic mail check device 100. The connector 260 includes a connection pin 270 and a battery 240 for connecting with the computer body. The battery 240 in the connector 260 is a battery of the mail arrival notification device shown in FIG. 2 and supplies a power supply voltage to the melody / LED driver 210 and the LED 230. The connector 260 of the embodiment of the present invention is provided with a cover (not shown) for detaching the battery, through which the battery for driving the mail arrival notification device 200 can be easily detached.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited only to the above-described embodiments, and of course, various other modifications and changes are possible. For example, the mail arrival notification device described above may be mounted on another electronic device such as a monitor or a keyboard other than a phone and automatically notify a user when a mail is received.

As described above, according to the present invention, when the e-mail arrives, it can be automatically confirmed that the mail has arrived, and can also automatically confirm that the e-mail has arrived from a plurality of mail servers.

According to the present invention, whether or not an e-mail is received can be confirmed by the mail arrival notification device mounted in the telephone, so that the mail can be easily confirmed even when the user is away from the computer for a long time.

Claims (9)

An e-mail checking apparatus for automatically checking whether e-mail is received or not, A mail check manager that reads a login ID, a login password, URL information to be searched stored in a registry file, and generates a dialog indicating a mail check status and a progress status; A mail check timer for generating a thread on a time basis set based on a login ID, a password, and a URL to be inquired by the mail check manager; And And a mail analyzer for accessing the mail server or the URL and analyzing the number of received mails based on the thread received from the mail check timer. The method of claim 1, The mail check timer is And an e-mail checking apparatus for generating a thread for receiving POP 3 mail and web mail, respectively, and sending it to the mail analyzer. The method of claim 2, The mail analyzer is After checking the number of POP3 mails by accessing the mail server through the ID and password existing in the thread to check whether the POP 3 mails are received, the mail check timer E-mail check device informing you. The method of claim 2, The mail analyzer is In order to check whether the web mail is received or not, the server accesses the corresponding server, receives an HTML document, finds an HTML document with a URL to log in, and logs in to the HTML document using the ID and password read from a registry file. Email check device to check the count. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, The mail check timer receives the mail arrival and the number of mails from the mail analyzer to display the mail arrival and the number of mails received on the tray of the screen. The method of claim 5, And receiving a mail reception signal from the mail check timer, wherein the mail check device further comprises an RS-232 signal management device notifying whether the mail is received through an RS-232C cable. A connector connected to a computer in which an e-mail checking device for automatically checking whether e-mail is received or not is installed; A cable connected to the connector; And A phone which is connected to the electronic mail checking device through the first cable and the connector, and which has a mail arrival notifying device that notifies the reception of the mail through melody or lighting when the electronic mail checking device confirms reception of the mail. An e-mail check telephone that includes a body. The method of claim 7, wherein The mail arrival notification device is E-mail check telephone coupled to an RS-232C cable connected to a computer, comprising a melody / LED driver to drive a buzzer or LED when the e-mail device receives a mail. The method of claim 8, And said connector is equipped with a battery for supplying a voltage for operating said melody / LED driver.