JP2003141039A - Electronic mail system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a transmitter to perform a corresponding processing for various changes of mails registered for transmission, which are generated to a delivery date by itself. SOLUTION: In this electronic mail system, the electronic mail server of a cellular phone agent comprises an acceptance means 15 having a retrieval means 12 having the function of retrieving a delivery date-designated mail registered for transmission and waiting for delivery; a mail list presenting means 13 for transferring a list for the delivery date-designated mail registered for transmission by a user to an inquiry from a mobile machine 2 that is the cellular phone; and a re-registration means 14 for re-registering the delivery date- designated mail with changed contents on the basis of the instruction of re- registration from the mobile machine 2. This acceptance means accepts various changes corresponding-processed by the transmitter of the mail including change of mail contents and cancel of mail delivery, which are generated up to the delivery date of the delivery date-designated mail.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a mobile phone including a PHS, which specifies a delivery date and time to register an e-mail,
The present invention relates to an electronic mail system in which a sender can check the status of a mail and correct the contents of the mail before the delivery date / time designated mail is delivered.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Although the "delivery date designated mail transmission service" in the conventional electronic mail system has the charm of a time capsule, the fact that e-mail itself was born and spread without its function, and the delivery date and time The operational burden for designation hindered business. Further, in the conventional service of the message storage / exchange network (Telex etc.), the message of transmission success / failure is simply returned to the message once registered for transmission. In recent years, due to improvements in the performance of display devices and control software for mobile devices such as mobile phones, it has become possible to display a list of a large number of mails waiting for delivery and edit mails registered in the business operator system. The business feasibility of the date-specified mail service has increased.

[0003]

As described above, the delivery date designation mail in the conventional electronic mail system only returns the success / failure report message to the registered message and is referred by the registrant. There was a problem that it could not be corrected.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic mail system in which a sender can deal with various changes that have occurred up to the delivery date of a registered mail.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An electronic mail system according to the present invention includes various types of correspondences processed by a sender of a mail on a mobile phone, including modification of mail contents occurring before the mail delivery date and cancellation of mail delivery. It is characterized in that it is provided with an electronic mail server of the operator of the mobile phone, which has a receiving means for receiving a change.

[0006] The electronic mail system of the present invention accepts various changes that the sender of the mail has dealt with with a mobile phone, including the change of the mail contents occurring before the mail delivery date and the cancellation of the mail delivery, and the transmission registration. The confirmation of the status of the mail, the correction of the contents of the mail, and the cancellation of the mail delivery can be performed by the sender who registered the transmission from the mobile phone before the delivery.

[0007]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will be described below. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the electronic mail system of this embodiment. The electronic mail system of this embodiment is composed of an electronic mail server 1 of a mobile phone operator including PHS and a mobile device 2.
The electronic mail server 1 and the mobile device 2 are connected to each other through the mobile phone operator exchange 3 and the base station 4. The e-mail server 1 waits for delivery and the designated delivery date / time email # 1,
A storage device 5 for storing # 2, # 3 ... Is provided.

The electronic mail server 1 further includes a transmission registration means 10 for the sender of the mail to register and register the delivery date / time mail in advance, a delivery means 11 for performing the mail delivery by the date / time designation, and a delivery waiting mail. In addition to the input means 21 for designating the date and time, the mobile device 2 having a search means 12, a mail list presenting means, a re-registration means 14, and a reception means 15, which is a mobile phone device including a PHS, and inquires about a delivery state. Means 22 and delivery date designation mail #
.., # 2, # 3 ... are taken out / edited / re-registered.

The delivery means 11 delivers a delivery date and time designation mail to a designated mail address at a designated date and time. The search means 12 stores delivery date designation mails # 1, # 2, # stored in the storage device 5 and waiting for delivery.
3 has a function of searching. In response to an inquiry from the mobile device 2, the mail list presenting means 13 takes out a list of delivery date designation mails # 1, # 2, # 3 registered by the user from the storage device 5 and transfers it to the mobile device 2. is there. The re-registration means 14 re-registers the delivery date designation mail of the changed contents based on the re-registration instruction from the mobile device 2. The accepting means 15 accepts various changes processed by the mail sender, who is the user of the mobile device 2, including the change of the mail content and the cancellation of the mail distribution, which have occurred before the distribution date and time of the distribution date and time designated mail. It is a thing. The input means 21 of the mobile device 2 is for inputting various operations from the mobile device 2 including the mail content and the designated delivery date and time. The inquiry means 22 is for making an inquiry to the electronic mail server 1. The extracting / editing / re-registering means 23 is for extracting / editing / re-registering a delivery waiting mail from the mobile device 2.

Next, the operation will be described. FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the operation of the electronic mail system of this embodiment, in which the user delivers the date and time such as birthday from the mobile device 2 of the business operator who provides the "delivery date and time designated email service". If an e-mail is sent in advance by specifying the date and time (step S1), this e-mail will be sent to the base station 4
And is registered in the storage device 5 of the electronic mail server 1 by the transmission registration means 10 via the exchange 1 of the mobile phone operator (step S11, step S12, step S1).
3). When a large number of such delivery date and time designation emails are sent and then a situation arises in which it is desired to confirm whether or not the transmission has been registered, the user makes an inquiry from the mobile device 2 to the electronic mail server 1 by the inquiry means 22. The operation for performing is performed (step S4).

Upon receiving this inquiry, the mail list presenting means 13 of the electronic mail server 1 retrieves from the storage device 5 a list of delivery date designation mails # 1, # 2, # 3 registered for transmission by the user (step S14). ). This mail list is sent from the electronic mail server 1 to the mobile device 2 and the mobile device 2
Is displayed on the display (step S5), and the user of the mobile device 2 can confirm the displayed mail list.

Further, by designating the delivery date designation mail found from the mail list from the mobile unit 2 (step S6), the retrieval means 12 of the electronic mail server 1 stores the text of the designated delivery date designation mail. The device retrieves and retrieves from the device 5, and transfers the retrieved body of the delivery date designation mail to the mobile device 2 (step S15).

When it is desired to change the contents due to the passage of time from the time when the transmission registration is made, the contents are changed on the mobile device 2 (step S7) and the re-registration is instructed (step S8). The registration unit 14 re-registers the delivery date designation mail whose text has been transferred to the mobile device 2 and changed (step S16). It should be noted that the "re-registration of change of text" in steps S8 and S16 also includes a function of canceling the transmission. Further, when the delivery time comes during the text change work, the electronic mail server 1 delivers the delivery date and time designation mail at the delivery time when the change work ends (steps S17, S18).

As described above, according to this embodiment,
By inquiring from the mobile device 2, the mail list registered for transmission by the user is taken out and confirmed, and further, the delivery date designation mail found from the list is specified from the mobile device 2, the mail text is taken out and transmitted. If you want to change the contents due to the passage of time since registration, mobile device 2
It is possible to realize an electronic mail system that can be changed and re-registered by the operation from. That is, in a system that allows you to specify the date and time you want to deliver to the recipient in advance and send the email at the sender's convenience, you want to change the content sent by the delivery date or you want to cancel the transmission. Even if it becomes a situation, the caller can handle it by himself, so the usage amount of the delivery date specified mail service increases,
This has the effect of increasing mail traffic (data communication volume) and increasing the income of mobile phone carriers including PHS.

Next, another embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the electronic mail system according to the present embodiment. The same or corresponding parts as those in FIG. 1 are designated by the same reference numerals and the description thereof will be omitted. In this embodiment, an internet interface device 34 that provides the internet 33 with a search interface for delivery date designation mails that are waiting to be delivered, and a personal computer 31 that can access the internet 33 are provided. Reference numeral 32 indicates a provider to which the user of the personal computer 31 subscribes. Further, the personal computer 31 includes the input unit 21, the distribution state inquiry unit 22, and the distribution date / time designation mails # 1 and #, which are included in the mobile device 2 according to the above-described embodiment.
2 and # 3 ... are taken out / edit / re-registration means 23.

In this embodiment, in the mail system of the mobile phone operator, the sender is provided with the Internet interface device 34 which provides the Internet with a search interface for the delivery date and time designation mail that is waiting to be delivered. From the personal computer 31 that can access 33, the operation of the inquiry means 22 of the mobile device 2 described in the above-mentioned embodiment (step S4), the display of the mail list retrieved by the electronic mail server 1 (step S5), and the desired delivery Specification from the mobile device 2 using the mail list for the designated date and time (step S6), change from the mobile device 2 to the content of the mail body extracted and transferred by the electronic mail server 1,
The same operation as the re-registration (step S7, step S8) is possible.

According to this embodiment, by inquiring from the personal computer 31 to the electronic mail server 1 via the Internet 33, the mail list registered by the user for transmission can be retrieved and confirmed, and the mail list can be further confirmed. When the delivery date designation mail found from the personal computer 31 is designated and the body of the mail is taken out and it is desired to change the contents thereof due to the passage of time after registration for transmission, the contents can be changed by the operation from the personal computer 31, An e-mail system that can be re-registered can be realized.

[0018]

According to the present invention, there is provided a receiving means for accepting various changes that the sender of the mail has dealt with by the cellular phone, including the change of the mail contents and the cancellation of the mail distribution that have occurred by the mail delivery date and time. Since it is configured to be prepared, if various changes are necessary for the registered mail by the delivery date, such as changing the mail content and canceling the mail delivery, the caller himself or herself from the mobile phone about the various changes. There is an effect that can be dealt with.

[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.

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

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an electronic mail system according to another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... E-mail server, 2 ... Mobile device, 12 ... Search means, 13 ... Mail list presenting means, 14 ... Re-registration means, 15 ... Reception means.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An electronic mail system for delivering the mail to a recipient at the delivery date and time of the email that was previously registered to be sent by the sender of the email, the content of the email being changed by the delivery date and time of the email, and An e-mail system comprising an e-mail server of an operator of the mobile phone, which has an acceptance unit that accepts various changes that the sender has processed in the mobile phone, including cancellation of mail delivery. 2. The mail list presenting means for presenting, in the mobile phone of the sender, a list of mails that the sender has registered for transmission from the mobile phone, in response to an inquiry from the sender of the mail. Searching means for searching the mail body designated by the sender from the mail registered for transmission from the mail list presented on the mobile phone, and transferring the searched mail to the mobile phone of the sender.
Re-registration means for re-registering the mail changed by the caller with respect to the text transferred to the mobile phone based on a re-registration instruction issued by the caller from the mobile phone. The electronic mail system according to claim 1, wherein: 3. The electronic mail system according to claim 2, wherein the re-registration of the mail whose text has been changed includes suspension of transmission. 4. The electronic mail system according to claim 2, wherein when the delivery time comes while the text is being changed, the mail at the delivery time is delivered when the change ends.