JP2002204473A - Communication terminal provided with position detection function and automatic transfer system for electronic mail employing this communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication terminal such as a mobile phone that always monitors at least its own position information and informs of a mail transfer server about it every time the position changes. SOLUTION: The communication terminal 1 provided with a position detection function is provided with an electronic mail transfer item registration setting means that registers a transfer destination address of electronic mail as transfer registration setting information together with a prescribed transfer condition in advance and with a communication control means that monitors the position information of the communication terminal 1 acquired every time the communication terminal 1 makes communication and the transfer registration setting information registered by the electronic mail transfer destination registration setting means and automatically transmits updated information when at least any information is updated to a mail transfer server 5 installed on a network N3.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication terminal having a position detecting function and an electronic mail automatic transfer system constituted by using the communication terminal.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, networks, particularly LANs, have been rapidly developed in offices and the like, and data has been shared and e-mails have been sent and received in offices, and through external networks such as the Internet.
The user can browse the WWW, send and receive e-mail, and the like.

[0003] If a mail transfer server for transferring an e-mail sent to the office to a predetermined transfer destination is connected to the LAN, the e-mail sent to the office can be transferred to a pre-registered transfer destination. For example, it can be transferred to a home communication terminal or mobile phone.

[0004]

However, whether or not to forward an e-mail to a pre-registered destination is set by a manual operation of a communication terminal in the office. If the user is in the office but has not canceled the forwarding setting, the mail sent to the office is unnecessarily forwarded to the forwarding destination.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above circumstances, and at least constantly monitors its own position information.
Provided are a communication terminal such as a mobile phone for notifying a mail transfer server every time the position information changes, and an automatic transfer system for performing e-mail transfer processing based on the position information notified from the communication terminal. It is intended to be.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a communication terminal having a position detecting function, wherein a destination address of an e-mail is set to a first address. E-mail transfer item registration setting means for pre-registering as transfer registration setting information together with predetermined transfer conditions, position information of the communication terminal obtained every time the communication terminal communicates, e-mail transfer destination registration setting means And communication control means for automatically transmitting the updated information to a mail transfer server installed on the network when at least one of the information is updated.

In the communication terminal according to the second aspect, the GPS
In a communication terminal having a positioning function, an e-mail transfer item registration setting means for pre-registering an e-mail transfer destination address together with predetermined transfer conditions as transfer registration setting information; Monitor the location information of the communication terminal obtained by the above, and the registration setting information registered in the e-mail transfer destination registration setting means, and when at least any of the information is updated, the updated information is transmitted to the network. And a communication control means for automatically transmitting the mail to a mail transfer server installed in the server.

[0008] In the communication terminal according to the third aspect, the e-mail transfer destination registration setting means can further set and register validity / invalidity of transfer to the transfer destination address as a transfer condition.

[0009] In the automatic transfer system according to the fourth aspect,
An electronic mail automatic transfer system comprising the communication terminal device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, a mail server, and a mail transfer server installed on a network, wherein the mail transfer server performs communication. A transfer destination address registration table for rewritably registering position information of the communication terminal, transfer destination address, and transfer registration setting information including transfer conditions transmitted from the communication control means of the terminal; When an e-mail specifying a mail client on the network is transmitted, the transfer destination address registration table is referred to, and according to the position information of the communication terminal registered therein and the transfer registration setting information, An e-mail automatic transfer unit for transferring the e-mail received by the mail server.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a main configuration of an automatic e-mail transfer system of the present invention.

In this system, a mobile phone 1 is used as a communication terminal, a mobile phone network N1, a gateway G
Through the Internet N2. The Internet N2 has a firewall F
, A LAN (N3) is connected as a network, and a mail server 4 and a mail transfer server 5 are connected to the LAN (N3), and a personal computer 2 of a company is connected as a mail client. A personal computer 3 at home is connected to the Internet N2 via an Internet provider P.

The mail server 4 is a mail client 2
Is received through the Internet N2, the e-mail is stored in the mailbox corresponding to the mail client 2 and transmitted to the mail client 2.

The present invention is characterized in that, when an electronic mail specifying the mail client 2 is received through the Internet N2, the electronic mail is transferred based on the position information of the communication terminal 1 at that time. In order to make this possible, the mobile phone 1 and the mail transfer server 5 are configured as shown in FIG.

That is, the mobile phone 1 includes an e-mail transfer item registration / setting unit 10, a position detection unit 11, and a communication control unit 12.

The e-mail transfer item registration setting section 10 constitutes an e-mail transfer item registration setting means, and by a predetermined operation by a user, an e-mail transfer destination address and a predetermined transfer condition, for example, a base station ID codes are associated with each other and registered as transfer registration setting information.

The position detector 11 obtains an ID code of a base station in the mobile telephone network N1 every time communication is performed via the mobile telephone network N1, and uses the ID code as position information of the communication terminal 1. .

The communication control unit 12 constitutes a communication control unit, and monitors the position information acquired by the position detection unit 11 and the transfer registration setting information registered in the e-mail transfer destination registration setting unit 10. When at least one of the information is updated, the updated information is automatically transmitted to the mail transfer server 5.

The acquisition of the position information by the position detection unit 11 may be performed by GPS positioning, and the latitude information and the longitude information of the communication terminal 1 may be acquired as the position information. In this case, it is necessary to register latitude information and longitude information as transfer conditions in the e-mail transfer item registration setting unit 10.

One mail transfer server 5 includes a transfer destination address registration table 50 and an automatic e-mail transfer section 51.

The transfer destination address registration table 50 stores the position information of the communication terminal 1 transmitted from the communication control unit 12 of the communication terminal 1 and the transfer registration setting information including the transfer destination address and the transfer condition described above. , Rewritable.

The electronic mail automatic transfer section 51 constitutes electronic mail automatic transfer means. When an electronic mail designating the mail client 2 is transmitted to the mail server 4, the transfer destination address registration table 50 is read. Referring to the location information of the communication terminal 1 registered therein and the transfer registration setting information, the received electronic mail is transferred.

That is, when an e-mail specifying the mail client 2 is sent to the mail server 4,
As described above, the e-mail is stored in the mail box corresponding to the mail client 2 in the mail server 4. Therefore, the e-mail automatic transfer unit 51 extracts the stored e-mail, and stores it in the transfer destination address registration table 50.
The position information of the communication terminal 1 at that time is referred to.

If the position information at that time matches the position information registered as the above-described transfer condition, the transfer destination address corresponding to the transfer condition is determined, and the determined transfer destination address, for example, the portable telephone 1 And transfer the retrieved e-mail to the personal computer 3 at home. Thereby, based on the position information acquired by the communication terminal 1, it is possible to automatically determine whether or not to forward the e-mail, and further, to where to forward the e-mail, For example, as shown in FIG. 3A, an e-mail is transferred to the mobile phone 1 when the user moves out of an area set around a company, or as shown in FIG. Upon entering, it becomes possible to transfer the e-mail to the personal computer 3 at home.

Here, the electronic mail transfer item registration setting unit 1
9, the transfer condition may be set so that the validity or invalidity of the transfer to the transfer destination address can be further set and registered. In this case, the mail transfer server 5 uses the position information obtained by the communication terminal 1 to It can be further determined whether the electronic mail is to be transferred to the corresponding transfer destination address, which is extremely convenient.

[0025]

As can be understood from the above description, in the communication terminal according to the first aspect of the present invention, the position information and the transfer registration setting information of the communication terminal are monitored, and at least one of the information is monitored. Is updated, the updated information is automatically sent to the mail transfer server installed on the network, so the mail transfer server can grasp the location information of the communication terminal and the transfer registration setting information in real time. The mail server can perform the transfer processing of the received e-mail based on the grasped information.

In the communication terminal according to the second aspect, since the position information is detected by GPS positioning, the mail transfer server grasps the position information of the communication terminal and the transfer registration setting information in real time. can do.

In the communication terminal device according to the third aspect, the e-mail transfer destination registration setting means can further set and register validity or invalidity of transfer to the transfer destination address as the transfer condition. The server can further determine whether or not to forward the e-mail received by the mail server to the corresponding destination based on the position information obtained by the communication terminal, which is extremely convenient.

[0028] In the automatic transfer system according to the fourth aspect,
4. A communication terminal device according to claim 1, comprising a mail server and a mail transfer server installed on a network, wherein the mail transfer server is a mail client on the network with respect to the mail server. When an e-mail that specifies is sent, the e-mail received by the mail server is forwarded according to the registered location information of the communication terminal and the transfer registration setting information. This is extremely convenient because it is not necessary to manually set whether or not to transfer the data by using a communication terminal in the office.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a main configuration of a system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining a characteristic operation of the system of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining an effect of the system of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Communication terminal device 2 ... Mail client 4 ... Mail server 5 ... Mail transfer server 10 ... E-mail transfer item registration setting part 11 ... Position detection part 12 ... Communication control Unit 50: Transfer destination address registration table 51: Automatic e-mail transfer unit N3: LAN

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing from the front page (72) Inventor Junichi Suzuki 1048 Kadoma Kadoma, Kadoma City, Osaka Prefecture Inside Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. Inventor Takuya Suedo 1048 Kadoma Kadoma, Kadoma City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. 1048 Kadoma Matsushita Electric Works Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Kenji Okuno 1048 Kadoma Kadoma, Osaka Pref.Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. 72) Inventor Kazuhiro Kawamoto 1048 Kadoma, Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture Matsushita Electric Works Co., Ltd. 5J062 AA08 BB05 CC07 HH04 5K067 AA34 BB21 DD13 DD20 DD51 EE02 EE16 FF03 HH17 JJ52 JJ56 JJ66 JJ70 5K101 KK02 KK08 LL12 MM07 RR12

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A communication terminal having a position detecting function, wherein: an e-mail transfer item registration setting means for pre-registering an e-mail transfer destination address together with a predetermined transfer condition as transfer registration setting information; Monitoring the position information of the communication terminal obtained every time the communication terminal communicates, the transfer registration setting information registered in the e-mail transfer destination registration setting means, and when at least one of the information is updated, The updated information
A communication control unit for automatically transmitting the mail to a mail transfer server installed on a network. 2. A communication terminal having a GPS positioning function, wherein: an e-mail transfer item registration setting means for pre-registering an e-mail transfer destination address together with predetermined transfer conditions as transfer registration setting information; The communication terminal monitors the position information of the communication terminal obtained by GPS positioning, the registration setting information registered in the e-mail transfer destination registration setting means, and when at least one of the information is updated, the A communication control unit for automatically transmitting updated information to a mail transfer server installed on a network. 3. The electronic mail transfer destination registration setting unit according to claim 1, wherein the electronic mail transfer destination registration setting means can further set and register whether the transfer to the transfer destination address is valid or invalid as the transfer condition. A communication terminal characterized by the above-mentioned. 4. An automatic electronic mail transfer system comprising the communication terminal device according to claim 1, a mail server, and a mail transfer server installed on a network, The mail transfer server is a transfer destination address register for rewritably registering the position information of the communication terminal, the transfer destination address, and the transfer registration setting information including the transfer condition transmitted from the communication control means of the communication terminal. When an e-mail specifying a mail client on the network is sent to the mail server and the mail server, the mail server refers to the transfer destination address registration table to check the communication terminal registered therein. An e-mail automatic transfer unit for transferring the e-mail received by the mail server according to the location information and the transfer registration setting information And wherein the door, e-mail forwarding system.