JP2001203748A - System for attaching and distributing electronic mail information - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic mail information attachment distribution system in which a system user can designate the field or type of information to be attached. SOLUTION: This electronic mail information attachment distribution system adds or attaches information to an electronic mail and distributes the electronic mail, includes a means storing the mail address information of a preliminarily registered distribution destination, a means receiving an e-mail from a sender, a means adding or attaching information to the received e-mail, a means distributing the e-mail with the information added or attached to a receiver based on the mail address information of the distribution destination, further, a means allowing the sender and/or the receiver to designate the field or type of information to be added or attached, and a means selecting the information to be added or attached in accordance with the field or type of information designated by the sender and/or the receiver.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system for adding information such as an advertisement to an electronic mail and delivering the electronic mail.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a mailing list service for receiving an e-mail transmitted from a sender, adding an advertisement to the e-mail, and distributing the advertisement to a recipient at a predetermined destination has been performed. In such a mailing list service, the mailing list service provider itself unilaterally selects the advertisement requested by the company, so the advertisements in the fields that the recipient does not need or do not want to see are also delivered. Have been.

[0003]

Therefore, such a method causes a large loss not only to a company that advertises an e-mail but also to a recipient who receives the e-mail.

[0004] It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic mail information additional delivery system that allows a user of the system to specify the field or type of information to be added.

[0005]

According to the present invention, there is provided a system for adding or attaching information to an e-mail and distributing the information as a result of intensive studies, comprising means for storing mail address information of a pre-registered distribution destination. Means for receiving an e-mail from a sender, means for adding or attaching information to a received e-mail, and delivery of the e-mail with the information added or attached to a recipient based on mail address information of a delivery destination. Means for the sender and / or receiver to specify the field or type of information to be added or attached, and according to the field or type of information specified by the sender and / or receiver. And a means for selecting information to be added or attached to the electronic mail.

Accordingly, in the electronic mail information additional delivery system of the present invention, the sender and / or the receiver (user who is a user of the system of the present invention) designates the field or type of information to be added or attached. Therefore, the user (sender and / or recipient) does not want to see the information in the fields that the recipient of the e-mail to which the information is added or attached is necessary or wants to see the information. Is added or attached to the e-mail, which is advantageous for both the provider who issues the information and the recipient who receives the information. In other words, a provider (such as a company) that issues information such as advertisements
Since the information can be distributed only to the recipient who wants to see the information, the information such as the advertisement can be effectively distributed. In addition, the receiver does not need to look at information in unnecessary fields or information in fields he does not want to see. Therefore, on the contrary, information such as advertisements can be effectively used as information.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a configuration example of the system of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes an electronic mail (hereinafter, may be simply referred to as “mail”), 2 denotes a mail receiving unit,
3 is a mail interpreter, 4 is a mail address information storage, 5
Is a desired field information section, 6 is a delivery information selection section, 7 is a mail creation section, 8 is an information addition section, 9 is a mail delivery section, 10 is a mail to which information is added or attached (information added mail), 11
Denotes a mail address setting change unit, and 12 denotes a desired field information setting change unit.

[0008] The electronic mail 1 is an electronic mail sent from the sender and is received by the mail receiving unit 2. The mail receiving unit 2 sends the electronic mail 1 to the mail interpreting unit 3.
The mail interpreting unit 3 interprets at least the header information and the mail contents of the mail, sends the header information to the mail address information storage unit 4, and sends the mail contents to the mail creating unit 7. The mail address information storage unit 4 stores the mail address information (including the user attribute) of the recipient of the distribution destination registered in advance by the user (sender and / or receiver). Then, the mail address information of the distribution destination is obtained based on the header information, and the header information having the mail address of the distribution destination is sent to the mail creating section 7. The mail creation unit 7 creates a delivery destination header information-attached mail by adding the header information from the mail address information storage unit 4 to the mail content from the mail interpretation unit 3 and sends the delivery destination header information-attached mail to the information addition unit. Send to 8.

[0009] The mail address information storage unit 4 also sends the mail address information of the recipient of the distribution destination to the desired field information unit 5. Desired field information section 5 stores desired field information which is the field or type of desired information designated by the user in advance, obtains the desired field information of the user based on the mail address information, and stores the desired field information. The information is sent to the distribution information selection unit 6. The distribution information selection unit 6 selects information to be added or attached according to the desired field information, and transmits the information to the information addition unit 8.
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The information adding section 8 adds or attaches the information from the delivery information selecting section 6 to the delivery destination header information added mail from the mail creating section 7 to create an information added mail to which the information is added or attached. The information-added mail is sent to the mail distribution unit 9. The mail delivery unit 9 is a delivery unit that delivers the mail to the recipient, and delivers the information-added mail to the recipient at the delivery destination based on the header information.

In this system, information is added or attached while retaining the contents of the mail from the sender.
The recipient can receive an e-mail having the contents of the e-mail from the sender and the added or attached information.

Therefore, the system according to the present invention comprises a mail receiving unit 2 for receiving an electronic mail from a sender, and a mail interpreting unit 3 for interpreting at least header information and mail contents of the mail received by the mail receiving unit 2. The mail address information storage unit 4 stores distribution mail address information registered in advance by the sender and / or the receiver, and obtains the distribution mail address information based on the header information interpreted by the mail interpreting unit 3. A mail creation unit 7 for adding header information having a delivery destination mail address in the mail address information storage unit 4 to the mail content interpreted by the mail interpretation unit 3 to create a delivery destination header information attached mail; Desired field information specified in advance by the sender and / or the receiver is stored, and the mail address information is recorded. Desired field information unit 5 to obtain the desired field information based on the destination e-mail address information from Part 4
And a delivery information selection unit 6 for selecting information to be added or attached in accordance with the desired field information obtained by the desired field information unit 5, and a delivery destination header information added mail created by the mail creation unit 7. An information adding unit 8 that adds or attaches the information sent from the information selecting unit 6 to create an information adding mail, and distributes the information adding mail created by the information adding unit 8 to a recipient who is a distribution destination And at least a mail distribution unit 9.

In the present invention, the information added or attached to the mail is not particularly limited, and may be any information, but an advertisement is preferably employed. That is, the present invention is particularly useful for a mailing list service that adds or attaches an advertisement to a received mail and distributes the advertisement to recipients registered in advance. Therefore, in a mailing list service having such a system, a company can distribute an advertisement only to an interested user, while a user can see only an advertisement in an area of interest, so that the company and the user who place the advertisement The benefits are extremely large for both.

As shown in FIG. 1, the mail address information may be set or changed by the mail address setting change section 11. The mail address setting change unit 11 may be provided on, for example, a homepage on the Internet, and may be configured to be set or changed by the user himself. In addition, the configuration of the e-mail address is sent to an e-mail information addition system administrator (e.g., a mail ring list service provider) by e-mail or postal mail so that the e-mail address can be set or changed. There may be.

As shown in FIG. 1, the desired field information may be set or changed by a desired field information setting change unit 12. The desired field information setting change unit 12 may be configured to be set or changed by a user or an e-mail information addition system administrator, similarly to the mail address setting change unit 11.

Of course, the mail address setting change section 11
The setting or change in the desired field information setting change unit 12 may be performed by a plurality of setting change methods that can be performed by either the user himself or the administrator.

In the system of the present invention, data such as the mail content, date, and statistical information of the received mail and the delivered mail are stored in the mail storage unit 13 (not shown in FIG. 1).
It may be saved in. The site for sending the data to the storage unit 13 is not particularly limited, and includes, for example, the mail receiving unit 2, the mail interpreting unit 3, and the mail distribution unit 9.

In the present invention, for example, the number of transmissions of information (advertisement or the like) to be sent to the user may be limited (for example, up to three times) to always provide the user with new information.

[0019]

Since the system of the present invention can distribute information such as advertisements only to interested users, the system of the provider and the user, which are companies that issue information such as advertisements, can be used. There are great benefits for both.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a system according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 E-mail 2 E-mail reception part 3 E-mail interpretation part 4 E-mail address information storage part 5 Desired field information part 6 Distribution information selection part 7 E-mail creation part 8 Information addition part 9 E-mail distribution part 10 E-mail with information added or attached (information Additional mail)

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A system for adding or attaching information to an e-mail and distributing the information, comprising: means for storing e-mail address information of a distribution destination registered in advance; means for receiving an e-mail from a sender; Means for adding or attaching information to the received e-mail, and means for distributing the e-mail to which the information has been added or attached to the recipient based on the e-mail address information of the distribution destination, and further adding or attaching Means for the sender and / or receiver to specify the field or type of information; and means for selecting information to be added or attached according to the field or type of information specified by the sender and / or receiver. E-mail information additional delivery system including.