JP2004235996A - System and method for transmitting mail between portable terminals - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and method for automatically transmitting mail between portable terminals to a portable telephone set having an incoming call number received by a telephone set for reception. <P>SOLUTION: An inter-portable terminal mail transmission system having the telephone set for reception connected serially to a computer and a plurality of portable telephone sets for transmission connected serially to the computer comprises an incoming call number acquiring means for acquiring an incoming call number received by the telephone set for reception, a telephone company information acquiring means for acquiring telephone company information from the incoming call number acquired by the incoming call number acquiring means, and an inter-portable terminal mail transmitting means for using one of the portable telephone sets for transmission according to the telephone company information acquired by the telephone company information acquiring means and the incoming call number to transmit mail between portable terminals, and automatically transmits the mail between portable terminals to a portable telephone set having the received incoming call number. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method of making a call to a specific telephone number, disconnecting and waiting for obtaining desired information from a portable terminal such as a portable telephone, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) and an electronic organizer. Thus, a mobile phone that enables reception of an email between mobile terminals including desired information (a mail exchanged between mobile terminals of the same mobile phone company and specifying the other party only by a telephone number). The present invention relates to a terminal mail transmission system and a portable terminal mail transmission method.
[0002]
2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2002-232596, a mail address of an Internet mail (a mail address followed by an at sign and a provider name) is obtained from an incoming number using an Internet-connected mobile phone. Email was sent to that address.
[0003]
However, the idea is that only a patent application was filed, and the system is not actually systematized. First, there are extremely few people who use email addresses that simply add an at sign and a provider name after the phone number, and second, it is set to reject emails from personal computers. There are overwhelmingly many mobile phone users.
The inventor of the present invention has noticed that this problem can be solved by using e-mail between mobile phones instead of Internet mail. Successfully developed a system that can handle SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a system and a method for automatically transmitting a mail between portable terminals to a portable telephone having a called number at which a receiving telephone arrives.
[0005]
In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the invention according to claim 1 has an incoming telephone set serially connected to a computer and a plurality of outgoing mobile telephone sets serially connected to the computer. A mail transmission system between portable terminals, comprising: a called number obtaining means for obtaining a called number received by the receiving telephone; and a telephone company information obtaining means for obtaining telephone company information from the called number obtained by the called number obtaining means. Means, and an inter-mobile-terminal mail transmitting means for transmitting an inter-mobile-terminal mail using any of the outgoing mobile phones according to the telephone company information and the called number obtained by the telephone company information obtaining means, This is an inter-mobile terminal mail transmission system for automatically transmitting an inter-mobile terminal mail to a mobile phone having the incoming call number.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an e-mail between portable terminals in an e-mail transmission system between portable terminals having an incoming telephone set serially connected to a computer and a plurality of outgoing mobile telephone sets serially connected to the computer. A transmission method, wherein a call number acquisition step of acquiring a call number received by the call receiving telephone; a telephone company information acquisition step of acquiring telephone company information from the call number acquired in the call number acquisition step; Transmitting mail between portable terminals using any of the outgoing portable telephones based on the telephone company information acquired by the telephone company information acquiring means and the incoming call number, This is a method for transmitting mail between portable terminals to automatically transmit mail between portable terminals to a portable telephone having a number.
[0007]
Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the minimum hardware configuration of the mail transmission system between portable terminals. As the computer 10 shown in FIG. 1, a general-purpose personal computer can be used. The database 15 has a database (or table) for associating a mobile phone number with a mobile phone company, and can be provided on a file server that can be referred to from the computer 10 or on a hard desk in the computer 10. The mobile phones 20, 30, 31, 32 are all connected to the serial port of the computer 10. The mobile phone 20 is for incoming calls, and the mobile phones 30, 31, and 32 are for outgoing calls. A mobile phone for outgoing calls is provided for each mobile phone company, such as the mobile phone 30 for the D company, the mobile phone 31 for the A company, and the mobile phone 32 for the J company.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a hardware configuration of a mail transmission system between portable terminals when a fixed telephone is used as a telephone for receiving a call. 1 in that an ISDN / analog line 25 and a called number display device 29 are provided instead of the mobile phone 20 in FIG. The ISDN / analog line 25 is a digital or analog public telephone line. The incoming call number display device 29 is a device that acquires the number when there is an incoming call.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of transmitting mail between portable terminals. When this transmission processing program is started (step 300), it is determined whether or not there is an incoming call to the incoming telephone (step 310). A search is made to see if it belongs to a company (step 320). This search is performed by referring to the database 15 shown in FIG. 1 or FIG. Specifically, reference is made to a number assignment table as shown in FIG. 4 or FIG. 5 described later. It is determined whether or not the acquired information of the telephone company is that of the mobile phone company (step 330). If it is found out, YES is determined in the step 330 and the process proceeds to the mail transmission process (step 340). In this mail transmission process, after a process different for each telephone company is performed, a signal is sent to any one of the mobile phones 30, 31, and 32 in FIG. 1 or 2 to be processed.
FIG. 4 is a table showing to which mobile phone company the mobile phone number starting with "090" belongs. It is a two-dimensional table, and for example, it can be seen that the number starting with “090188” belongs to the mobile phone company read from the intersection of the ninth row from the top and the ninth column from the left.
[0011]
As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a system and a method for automatically transmitting an e-mail between portable terminals to a portable telephone having an incoming call number at which an incoming call arrives. Thereby, the user of the portable terminal can easily obtain information such as advertisement without entering a complicated URL and accessing a website. Also, as a subject who wants an advertisement, an advertisement can be made to a user who has set Internet mail rejection. Furthermore, it is also possible to provide different advertisement contents for each incoming number.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a minimum hardware configuration of a mail transmission system between portable terminals.
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of a mail transmission system between portable terminals when a fixed telephone is used as an incoming call telephone.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for transmitting mail between portable terminals.
FIG. 4 is a table showing to which mobile phone company a mobile phone number starting with “090” belongs.
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Claims (2)

A mail transmission system between portable terminals having an incoming telephone connected serially to a computer and a plurality of outgoing mobile phones serially connected to the computer,
Incoming number acquisition means for acquiring an incoming number received by the incoming telephone,
Telephone company information obtaining means for obtaining telephone company information from the called number obtained by the called number obtaining means;
Having an inter-mobile terminal mail transmitting means for transmitting an inter-mobile terminal mail using any of the outgoing mobile phones according to the telephone company information and the incoming call number obtained by the telephone company information obtaining means,
An inter-mobile terminal mail transmission system for automatically transmitting an inter-mobile terminal mail to a mobile phone having the incoming call number. A method for transmitting mail between portable terminals in a mail transmission system between portable terminals, comprising a receiving telephone serially connected to a computer and a plurality of outgoing mobile telephones serially connected to the computer,
A called number acquiring step of acquiring a called number received by the incoming telephone,
A telephone company information obtaining step of obtaining telephone company information from the called number obtained in the called number obtaining step;
A mobile terminal-to-mobile terminal mail transmitting step of transmitting a mobile terminal-to-mobile terminal mail by using any one of the outgoing mobile phones according to the telephone company information and the called number obtained by the telephone company information obtaining means,
A method of transmitting mail between portable terminals, the method comprising: automatically transmitting a mail between portable terminals to a portable telephone having the called number.

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