JP2008203958A - E-mail reception rejection setting method, program and portable terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily enable rejection setting for unwanted mail from an incoming mail list display screen by making it unnecessary to change incoming rejection on a system. <P>SOLUTION: A function menu list display screen (b) is called from a reception mail list display (reception BOX)(a) or a mail detail screen after the reception of unwanted mail, and "reception rejection setting" in the function menu is selected. Then, a user is connected to the mail reception rejection setting site of a provider server (c), and the setting form of a reception rejection address list is displayed from a mail reception rejection setting site (d). In this case, the transmission origin address of reception mail selected by a reception BOX is added to the list, and a user depresses a registration button after confirmation. The setting form is transmitted to and registered in the mail reception rejection setting site, so that any mail from the transmission origin address since then can be prevented from being transmitted to the user. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a mail reception refusal setting, and more particularly, to a mail reception refusal setting method, a program, and a mobile terminal that perform spam mail reception refusal on a mobile terminal.

  The number of spam e-mails sent to mobile phones has been decreasing per day due to the measures taken by business operators, but there are still a few junk e-mails reaching users.

  Conventionally, the rejection setting method to reject the reception (incoming) of spam mail is to close the display screen of spam mail after receiving the spam mail, and from the standby screen to the mail server of the mobile phone carrier (business server) Connect to the email reception refusal setting site (support site) of), and via multiple screens, obtain a setting form for registering the sender address (reception refusal address) of spam mail from the support site, and receive refusal address After entering, send it to the support site and set the rejection.

In addition, as an e-mail rejection system that allows you to register delivery rejection without changing the mobile phone screen almost from the received mail address list display screen, transmission that rejects delivery on the received mail address list display screen of the mobile phone It is known that an original mail address can be selected, a transmission screen for transmitting the transmission source mail address is created and displayed on a mobile phone, and transmitted to a mail server for registration (see Patent Document 1). .
JP 2003-32308 A

  As mentioned above, as a countermeasure against spam mail, it can be solved by the user setting the incoming call rejection with the rejection setting method of the conventional system, but there are users who think that their mobile phone can not set incoming call rejection Also, even if you know that you can set the incoming call rejection, the setting operation is troublesome, so you can postpone it, or leave it because it seems difficult to set it, and you receive similar spam mails in many cases Is the actual situation.

  In addition, the e-mail delivery rejection system disclosed in Cited Document 1 can register the sender e-mail address of the junk e-mail in the mail server with almost no change from the received e-mail address list display screen of the mobile phone. However, since the transmission of the transmission source e-mail address is performed independently by the mobile phone, a change on the system such as the mail server side is essential.

(Object of invention)
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a mail reception rejection setting method that makes it possible to easily perform spam mail rejection setting from an incoming mail list display screen without requiring any change on the system for rejecting incoming calls.

  Another object of the present invention is to provide a program that makes it possible to easily set spam mail rejection setting from the incoming mail list display screen without requiring any change on the incoming call rejection system.

  Another object of the present invention is to provide a portable terminal having a mail reception rejection setting function that makes it possible to easily perform spam mail rejection setting from the incoming mail list display screen without requiring any change on the system of incoming rejection. There is.

  The present invention is characterized in that a mail reception rejection setting can be easily performed from a received junk mail or the like without changing the system on the business server side for performing the incoming call rejection setting.

  The mail reception refusal setting method of the present invention is a mail reception refusal setting method for a portable terminal, which displays a received mail, selects a specific received mail, and connects to a mail reception refusal setting site in the received mail display state. A setting form for inputting a reception rejection address is acquired, a sender address of the specific received mail is input as the reception rejection address in the acquired setting form, and the setting form in which the reception rejection address is input is received by the mail The mail reception rejection setting is performed by sending to a rejection setting site, and the reception rejection address input in the setting form is extracted by analyzing the information of the specific received mail in the received mail display state It is a sender address of the received mail. Further, the reception rejection address is a domain unit of the transmission source address.

  The program of the present invention is a program of a portable terminal that performs mail reception refusal setting for a mail reception refusal setting site, and displays a received mail on a computer and selects a specific received mail (for example, steps S11 to S11 in FIG. 4). S13), a procedure for obtaining a setting form for connecting to the mail reception refusal setting site and inputting a reception refusal address in the received mail display state (for example, steps S14 to S17 in FIG. 4), A procedure (for example, step S18 in FIG. 4) for inputting the sender address of the received mail as the reception rejection address, and a procedure for performing the mail reception rejection setting by transmitting the setting form to the mail reception rejection setting site (for example, FIG. 4 and step S19), and the received mail In the illustrated state, a procedure (for example, step S16 in FIG. 4) of analyzing the information of the specific received mail and extracting the source address of the received mail as the reception rejection address input to the setting form is executed. And Further, the reception rejection address is a domain unit of the source address.

  The portable terminal of the present invention performs a mail reception refusal setting by acquiring a setting form for connecting to a mail reception refusal setting site and inputting a reception refusal address, inputting the reception refusal address, and sending it to the mail reception refusal setting site. In the portable terminal, the function that can be activated in the received mail display state has a function of specifying the received mail that is displayed in the received mail and performing the mail reception rejection setting with the source address of the received mail as the reception rejection address And having a function of analyzing the information of the received mail selected from the received mail display and extracting the transmission source address as the reception rejection address from the information of the received mail. Further, the reception rejection address is a domain unit of the source address.

(Function)
After receiving a junk mail or the like, a function menu list display screen (for example, 22 in FIG. 2) is called from the received mail display such as a received mail list display (reception BOX) (for example, 21 in FIG. 2) or a mail details screen. Select the reception rejection setting in. Then, a connection is made to the mail reception refusal setting site of the business server (for example, 23 in FIG. 2), and a setting form (for example, 24 in FIG. 2) of the reception refusal address list is received and displayed from the mail reception refusal setting site. At this time, it is confirmed that the source address of the mail selected in the reception BOX (for example, 21 in FIG. 2) has already been added to the list, and the user has surely added the source address to be rejected. Press the registration button at the bottom of the screen. As a result, the setting form of the reception rejection address list to which the transmission source address for rejecting the incoming call is added is transmitted and registered to the mail reception rejection setting site, and the subsequent mail from the transmission source address is not transmitted to the user. As described above, the procedure up to the setting form of the mail reception refusal setting site and the trouble of manually inputting the reception refusal address, which were felt troublesome in the past, can be saved (see FIG. 2).

  According to the present invention, since the configuration is such that the setting form is acquired and transmitted in the received mail display such as the received mail list display of the mobile terminal, it is not necessary to change the system on the existing mail server side, and the mobile terminal. After receiving a junk e-mail or the like with only modification, it is possible to immediately set the rejection from the received mail display, and it is possible to complete the rejection setting operation without leaving the mail function.

  In other words, in the conventional rejection setting operation, after receiving junk mail, copy the sender address from the received mail display on the mail list screen, etc., temporarily close the display state of junk mail etc. and return to the standby screen, then Start the browser from the standby screen, connect to the email reception rejection setting site of the mobile phone carrier server, obtain the setting form via multiple screens, enter the reception rejection address, etc. 10 times or more The mail reception refusal setting is performed by the number of key operations, but in the present invention, the reception refusal address can be easily set by the extremely small number of key operations of about 3 to 4.

  Further, in the input operation of the present invention, the header information of the selected received mail is analyzed, and the sender address is extracted and stored, and is automatically input to the setting form. For a user who has registered a reception rejection address by input, erroneous input can be prevented, and the usability of the mobile terminal is greatly improved.

  In addition, since the e-mail address of the sender who wants to reject the reception is already entered when the rejection setting page is displayed on the setting form, it is possible to easily set the rejection only by adding a new reception rejection address.

  Further, when there are a plurality of e-mail addresses to be rejected, it is possible to simultaneously set reception rejection after selection on a list screen or the like.

(Embodiment 1 of the invention)
One embodiment of a mobile terminal and a method of setting mail reception refusal such as spam mail according to the present invention will be described below using an example of a mobile phone.
(Description of configuration)
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a mobile phone showing an embodiment of the present invention.
The mobile phone 1 according to the present embodiment includes a control unit 11 that performs overall control processing, an antenna 2 that performs wireless communication, transmission and reception of voice and mail information through wireless communication via the antenna 2, a mail server of a mobile phone carrier, and the like. (Communication server) Send / receive unit 12 for controlling connection to a network such as access to a mail reception refusal setting site, display unit 13 for visual display of transmission / reception information, function menu, etc., key operation unit operated by user 14, a ROM 15 that stores an operation program of the mobile phone 1, and a RAM 16 that stores user data such as a telephone directory. In particular, the control unit 11 performs communication control such as incoming / outgoing by wireless communication with a base station as a mobile phone, call control, connection to a mail server refusal setting site of an operator server via a network, setting form (input for inputting an address) Form) transmission / reception, transmission / reception of mail, list display of transmission / reception mail, display and control of various function menus.

  On the other hand, the mail reception refusal setting site is set on the provider server side or the like, and the reception refusal setting is started by network connection from the mobile phone 1. In response to a request from the connected mobile phone 1, the mail reception refusal setting site inputs a sender address such as spam mail already set at the time of connection to the setting form and transmits it to the mobile phone 1. Upon receiving the changed setting form such as additional input, the mail server determines whether or not the mail addressed to the mobile phone 1 can be transmitted based on the information of the mail address input in the setting form, It is configured to prohibit transmission of spam mails and the like.

(Description of operation)
More specific operations of the portable terminal and the mail reception rejection setting method of the present embodiment will be described below with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a display screen of the cellular phone according to the present embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a processing flowchart of the operation of the cellular phone and the exchange with the provider server side. An operation example of the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

  First, as shown in FIG. 3, when various mails including spam mails arrive from the operator server to the mobile phone 1, in the mobile phone 1, the control unit 11 stores the received mails in a predetermined memory area of the RAM 16, and the user The received mail list can be displayed on the display unit 13 by operating the key operation unit 14.

  When the user performs an operation for displaying the received mail on the mobile phone 1, the screen of the received mail list display (received BOX) 21 shown in FIG. 1A is displayed on the display unit 13 of the mobile phone 1. On the screen of the received mail list display 21, the user directly selects as a junk mail (selects by the up / down operation of the cursor corresponding to the “select” display) or displays the details of the contents of the mail and so on and confirms it. After selecting as mail, the function button is pressed (such as pressing the operation unit corresponding to the “function” display) to display a screen including the function menu list display 22 of FIG. 2B (step S1). .

  The function menu list display 22 of the present embodiment is provided with a function of reception rejection setting [4] in addition to functions such as reply [1], forwarding [2], and mail search [3], and the user can use the key It is possible to perform a reception refusal setting operation for selecting and confirming the reception refusal setting [4] by the cursor up / down operation by the operation unit 14 (step S2). Here, the function of the reception refusal setting [4] can be displayed so that it can be called only when a specific received mail is selected in the function menu. It is a function that can be connected to.

  When the user completes the reception refusal setting operation of the mobile phone 1 (step S2), the control unit 11 of the mobile phone 1 automatically extracts and stores the selected sender address such as junk mail as a reception refusal address. The rejection address storage process is performed (step S3), and then the control unit 11 performs a screen display including the connection confirmation display 23 of FIG. 2 (c) indicating the connection to the address of the mail reception rejection setting site of the business server, When the user confirms the screen display and selects the connection confirmation operation (YES), the control unit 11 connects to the mail reception refusal setting site of the business server and inputs the reception refusal address to the mail reception refusal setting site. Request to send the setting form to be received, and receive and obtain the setting form page of the reception rejection address from the site.

  When the control unit 11 of the mobile phone 1 acquires the page of the reception rejection address setting form, the contents of the acquired page are analyzed as internal processing, and the spam mail stored in the reception rejection address storage process (step S2) is transmitted. A reception rejection address input process for writing the original address in the page as a reception rejection address is performed (step S4).

  And the control part 11 performs the reception rejection address input completion screen display process which displays the page of the reception rejection address list display 24 shown in FIG.2 (d) which additionally input the sender address of the spam mail (step S5).

  The user confirms that the address to be rejected is correct on the page of the reception reject address list display 24 and presses the registration button, so that the sender address of the junk mail is received on the reception reject setting site of the business server. Register as

  If there are a plurality of e-mail addresses to be rejected, select all e-mails that you want to reject from the list screen of the received mail list display (reception BOX) 21 in FIG. 2A and perform the same operation. It is possible to configure so that a plurality of reception rejection settings can be made.

(Other embodiment 2 of invention)
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention. The present embodiment relates to a program installed in a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone. The block configuration of the cellular phone is the same as in FIG. 1, and an example in which the mail reception rejection setting process is realized by a computer program will be described.

  In the present embodiment, the control unit 11 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit), and the ROM 15 and the RAM 16 constitute a computer. The ROM 15 stores a program for realizing the processing flowchart shown in FIG. 11 reads the program from the ROM 15 and is controlled by the read program, and controls the transmission / reception unit 12, the RAM 16, and the display unit 13 based on the input information from the key operation unit 14, and the following mail reception rejection setting process Execute. Hereinafter, a description will be given with reference to FIGS.

  When the user performs a confirmation operation at the time of incoming mail or an activation operation of the mail function menu in the standby state of the cellular phone 1 (step S11), the control unit 11 reads out the received mail information stored in the RAM 16 and displays it. 13 displays the received mail list display 21 shown in FIG. 2A (step S12). The user selects the display column of the received mail in order to reject the reception of the latest received mail or the received mail from the sender address of the received mail on the screen of the received mail list display 21 (step S13). When an operation button corresponding to a function menu that can be activated on the screen of the display 21 is pressed (step S14), the control unit 11 displays a function menu including a plurality of functions shown in FIG. Display and wait for the user to select and activate any function by the up and down cursor keys.

  When the user performs a mail reception rejection setting operation (step S15), the control unit 11 analyzes the header information of the selected received mail, extracts the source address of the received mail, and stores it in the RAM 16. Next, the control unit 11 displays a confirmation screen shown in FIG. 7C on the display unit 13 in order to connect to the address of the mail reception refusal setting site registered in advance in the mobile phone 1, and the user confirmation operation (YES) Then, the control unit 11 controls the transmission / reception unit 12 to connect to the address of the mail reception rejection setting site. Furthermore, after connecting to the mail reception rejection setting site, a request form for setting reception rejection is requested, and the sender address already stored in the acquired setting form is added to the reject address list shown in FIG. (FIG. 2D shows a case where the rejection address is not set when the setting form is acquired) on the display unit 13 (step S18). When the user confirms the sender address in the reject address list shown in FIG. 2D and performs a registration operation (step S19), the control unit 11 sends a setting form to the mail reception reject setting site and sets the reject setting. Register. In other words, the mail server rejection setting site of the business server does not receive mail sent from the sender address to the mobile phone 1 based on the sender address information sent in the setting form. To control the mail server.

  Further, when the user performs a reply operation (step S20) after the activation of the function menu in step S14, for example, the process after the display of the reply screen (step S21) is executed and the mail search operation is performed. (Step S22) executes processing subsequent to display of the search screen (Step S23).

(Other embodiment 3 of invention)
In the above embodiment, the method of rejecting mails from individual senders by setting all sender addresses (full addresses) as an aspect of mail reception rejection setting has been described. Since the rejection system is a service system that enables mail reception or reception refusal by specifying only the domain of the source address, in the above embodiment, mail reception or reception refusal settings can be made on a domain basis. It is possible to configure. In the case of the third embodiment, it is configured such that a reception rejection address can be input in a domain unit in the setting form, and a mail reception rejection is performed in a receivable domain unit.

  In the above embodiment, an example of extracting the sender address from a single received mail selected on the received mail display screen for the reception refusal setting and entering the setting form to set the reception refusal is shown. Although it has been described that a plurality of reception refusal settings can be made by repeating the same operation for a plurality of received mails, a plurality of received mails can be selected in the received mail list display. By analyzing each header information, it automatically extracts and stores each sender address from the received mails, and inputs each when receiving the setting form. Can be performed simultaneously.

  In the above embodiment, an example (for example, step S16 in FIG. 4) in which the source address extraction and storage processing by analysis of the received mail is executed immediately before the acquisition of the setting form has been shown. After the selection (for example, step S13 in FIG. 4), it may be performed until the input to the setting form (for example, step S18 in FIG. 4), and the processing procedure is changed to be performed at any stage including parallel processing. It is also possible to do.

It is a block diagram which shows one embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen of the mobile telephone of this Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the process flowchart of operation of a mobile telephone, and communication with a provider server. It is a block diagram which shows other embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1 Mobile phone (mobile terminal)
2 Antenna 11 Control unit 12 Transmission / reception unit 13 Display unit 14 Key operation unit 15 ROM
16 RAM
21 Received mail list display (Received BOX)
22 Function menu list display (Function menu)
23 Connection confirmation display (i-mode)
24 Receiving rejection address list display (rejection setting)

Claims (9)

This is a method for setting email reception refusal on a mobile device,
A step of displaying a received mail and selecting a specific received mail; a step of acquiring a setting form for connecting to a mail reception refusal setting site and inputting a reception refusal address in the received mail display state; and the specific in the setting form And a step of inputting a transmission source address of the received mail as the reception rejection address and a step of performing a mail reception rejection setting by transmitting the setting form to the mail reception rejection setting site. Reception rejection setting method. The reception rejection address input to the setting form is a source address of the received mail extracted by analyzing information on the specific received mail in the received mail display state. How to set up email reception rejection. The mail reception rejection setting method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the reception rejection address is a domain unit of the source address. A program for a mobile terminal having a function for setting an email reception rejection setting for an email reception rejection setting site,
A procedure for displaying a received mail on a computer and selecting a specific received mail, a procedure for obtaining a setting form for connecting to a mail reception rejection setting site and entering a reception rejection address in the received mail display state, and the setting form And a step of inputting a sender address of the specific received mail as the reception rejection address and a step of performing a mail reception rejection setting by transmitting the setting form to the mail reception rejection setting site. A featured program. 5. The procedure for analyzing the information of the specific received mail in the received mail display state and extracting a source address of the received mail as the reception reject address input to the setting form is performed. The listed program. 6. The program according to claim 4, wherein the reception rejection address is a domain unit of the transmission source address. In a mobile terminal that connects to a mail reception refusal setting site and obtains a setting form for entering a reception refusal address, and enters the reception refusal address and sends it to the mail reception refusal setting site, the received mail A mobile that has a function that can be activated in a display state to specify a received mail that is being displayed in the received mail, and to set the mail reception refusal setting with the source address of the received mail as the reception refusal address Terminal. 8. The portable terminal according to claim 7, further comprising a function of analyzing information on a received mail selected from the received mail display and extracting the transmission source address as the reception rejection address from the information on the received mail. The portable terminal according to claim 7 or 8, wherein the reception rejection address is a domain unit of the source address.

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