JP3173421B2 - Mail transfer system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for storing electronic mail transferred from a mail server via a LAN or a public network into a storage device after voice synthesis conversion, accessing the storage device from a wireless telephone, and storing the electronic mail. It belongs to a mail transfer system having a configuration in which the e-mail after the converted voice synthesis can be heard by the synthesized voice.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With the diversification of information transmission means, notebook personal computers and portable information terminals (hereinafter referred to as PDs) have been proposed.
Abbreviated as A. ) And a wireless telephone are combined to form a mobile terminal, and an attempt is made to access a mail server and transmit and receive e-mails without being restricted by place or time.

[0003] In addition to the automatic transfer between electronic mail systems, there is also a mail system in which an incoming condition of an electronic mail is set in advance in a mail reader or the like of a mail server, and only those that match the conditions are read from a mobile terminal. Exists.

Conventionally, in this type of mail system,
No automatic transmission of e-mail from a mail server to various mobile terminals has been performed. This is because the charge for the wireless communication line is relatively expensive compared to the case of wired,
Establishing a wireless communication line at all times is because the communication fee becomes enormous and the mobile terminal is not always in a state where it can receive a call.

Therefore, as a means for solving such a problem, a system has been proposed in which a known pager system is used, and when an electronic mail arrives at a mail server, the pager rings.

Conventionally, when a position of a wireless telephone is unknown due to a busy state, no response or in a dead zone, or when the position of a wireless telephone is unknown due to power-off, a caller of a caller is called. 2. Description of the Related Art There is a voice storage device for storing and storing messages addressed to a wireless telephone.

This voice storage device calls the called radio telephone at a certain time interval from the voice storage device, or the called radio telephone makes a call to the voice storage device to determine whether a voice message addressed to itself has been deposited. This device distributes a stored voice message to a called wireless telephone when an inquiry is made by selecting a number.

Recently, the mainstream is that a signal is automatically transmitted from the radiotelephone side at the same time that the radiotelephone becomes ready to respond, and a message indicating that a message is present is displayed on the radiotelephone (for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 8- 97852, and JP-A-6-125393).

[0009]

As described above, various mail systems have conventionally been proposed for connecting a mobile terminal and a mail server via a wireless communication device. In order to read the e-mail, it is necessary to carry a plurality of terminals, such as a combination of both a wireless telephone and a PDA or a combination of pagers, and there is an annoyance that these terminals must be carried at all times.

Also, a user who does not subscribe to the pager system or the like that notifies the reception of mail in real time as described above cannot obtain information without accessing the mail server even though the e-mail has not arrived. ,
There are problems such as wasted access time and the resulting increase in communication costs, such as having to read all emails other than the emails that are really needed.

[0011] Therefore, an object of the present invention is to obtain an e-mail automatically from a mail server under an incoming condition arbitrarily determined by a user with only one wireless telephone regardless of time and place, and as a voice message. An object of the present invention is to provide a mail transfer system having a configuration capable of confirming the contents of a mail in real time.

[0012]

According to the present invention, a portable wireless telephone, a mail server having a function of transferring text data via a LAN or a modem, and
A voice synthesis storage device having a function of performing voice synthesis conversion on the text data transferred from the mail server and storing the data as a synthesized voice message in a voice storage unit; mail having a condition determination processing unit for judging whether a voice mail or e-mail that is transferred via the modem
In the transfer system, the mail server always sends mail.
Monitor incoming calls, and according to the conditions set for each user.
Incoming mail that matches the user's instruction condition
Means to extract the extracted emails
Have a function to transfer data according to the conditions set by the user.
If the transfer destination of the user is a telephone number,
The sentence editing processing means separates the mail header and mail body.
Via the modem
There is provided a mail transfer system having communication means for transmitting to a public network .

[0013]

In the mail transfer system of the present invention, the user registers the mail arrival condition and an arbitrary transfer destination in the mail server. The mail server monitors the arrival of an e-mail that meets the conditions set by the user, and separates the mail header part and the mail text when the e-mail arrives, adds new transfer destination information, and transfers the mail to the specified destination. If a special instruction has been given by the user, a designation process is executed.

Further, the transferred mail text is converted from text data to voice data and then stored in a voice synthesis storage device. When the synthesized voice mail is stored in the voice synthesizing storage device, the stored data of the data is transmitted to a predetermined user terminal via the exchange and the radio base station.
Also, the wireless telephone recognizes which of the incoming information of the voice synthesizing and storing device is present and displays it on the terminal.

[0015]

Next, an embodiment of a mail transfer system according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a mail transfer system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, mail server 1 includes a mail arrival monitoring unit 11, a user designation process execution unit 12, a mailbox access processing unit 13, a message processing unit 14, a communication control unit 15, and a modem control unit 16. Have.

Further, the mail server 1 is connected to an external storage device 3 for storing a mailbox 31 for storing incoming mail for each mail address, a user file 32 for storing user-specific information, and the like.

Each of the processing units in the mail server 1 is a program developed in a main memory or an auxiliary memory, and input / output of information between the units is controlled by an operating system (OS) by a known method. When a processing error occurs, predetermined error processing is performed.

The communication control unit 15 controls transmission and reception of a message to and from a speech synthesis and storage device 5 described later via a public network, and includes a modem initialization processing unit 151 for initializing the modem 2; A message transmission / reception processing unit 152 that transmits the message created by the message processing unit 14 and receives the message returned from the speech synthesis storage device 5, and a call connection control processing unit 153 that controls the start and end of the call connection. Consists of

The electronic mail processing unit 14 provides an electronic mail from a specific sender, an electronic mail including a specific keyword, an electronic mail of a specific length, and an electronic mail arriving at a specific reception time zone for each user. An incoming condition setting processing unit 144 for setting incoming conditions such as an incoming condition, and a condition determining processing unit 14 for determining whether or not the incoming condition of mail set by the user matches the incoming condition.
3 and the mail matches the condition, and the user's designated process is transfer to the speech synthesis storage device 5,
A message editing / creating processing unit 141 that edits a received mail so that the voice synthesizing unit 53 can perform synthesis processing, and processing such as adding a new transmission destination telephone number and sender information of the received mail to the created message. Condition setting processing unit 1 that performs
42.

The mail arrival monitoring section 11 monitors whether an electronic mail has arrived. User specified process execution unit 1
Numeral 2 executes processing designated by the user, such as a transfer instruction. The mailbox access processing unit 13 writes / reads an e-mail to / from a mailbox stored in the external storage device 3. The modem control unit 16 controls the operation of the modem 2 based on the communication control unit 15.

The voice synthesizing and accumulating device 5 is connected to the exchange 4 accommodating the radio base station 6, and determines whether the electronic mail is transferred via a modem or is a normal voice mail. From the service contract information and the like for each user stored in 57, information on which user the incoming mail belongs to and which service is contracted is monitored, and the service is distributed to the voice storage units A54 and B55 for each service. It has a service control unit 56 for controlling e-mail return from an e-mail other than from the contractor.

In the voice synthesizing and accumulating device 5, a condition judgment processing unit 5
If the electronic mail is determined to be an electronic mail by the user 1 and the electronic mail belongs to the contract user, the voice synthesizing unit 53 performs synthesis conversion from text data to voice data via the modem 52 and outputs the synthesized voice. The voice is stored in the voice storage unit A54. The normal voice mail is stored in the voice storage unit B55.

When data is stored in the voice storage units A 54 and B 55, a service contract is made via the exchange 4 and the radio base station 6 by including a flag indicating which storage unit the data is stored in. A means for transmitting the stored information may be provided to the user's wireless telephone 7. In this case, when receiving the information including the flag, the wireless telephone 7 has a function of determining the data type and changing the display method for each data type.

Further, in the mail transfer system of this configuration, the mail server side is provided with a message editing processing means such as separation of a header and a text body of an incoming electronic mail, but this is provided on the voice synthesis storage device side. Things are also possible. Next, a processing procedure of the mail transfer system having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIGS.

In FIGS. 2 and 3, S represents a processing step. FIG. 2 shows a processing procedure at the time of receiving an electronic mail in the mail server 1. First, it is checked whether an e-mail has arrived at the mailbox of the external storage device 3 (S2).
01). If a call has arrived, it is checked whether or not the mail receiving condition has been set (S202).
It is determined whether or not the currently received e-mail satisfies the condition (S203). If they match, the mail is extracted from the mailbox and sequentially stored in the memory (S204), and it is checked whether the transfer condition is set (S207). When the transfer conditions have been set, when all the conditions have been checked (S20).
8) A message editing and creating process (S209) is performed and a mail sending process (S210) is executed.

On the other hand, if the current mail does not meet the incoming condition in S203, it is confirmed whether or not the user has made a special processing designation, for example, a transfer designation to another terminal device (S204). If so, the designation process is executed (S205), and if not, the mail is stored in the mailbox (S211).

FIG. 3 shows a processing procedure at the time of mail arrival in the speech synthesis storage device 5. Upon receiving an e-mail or voice mail, the voice synthesis storage device 5 determines whether or not the incoming message belongs to a mail server based on the presence or absence of a predetermined flag (S301).

When it is determined that the received e-mail is from the mail server, it is determined whether or not the received e-mail belongs to a service contractor (S305). Is performed (S306), and is stored in the voice storage unit A54 (S307). At this time, the storage information of the message is sent to the contractor (S308). On the other hand, if it does not belong to the contractor, data return processing to the mail server is performed (S309).

If it is determined in step S301 that the incoming mail is a normal voice mail, it is determined whether the mail is a voice mail service subscriber (S302).
If it belongs to the contractor, after storing the message in the voice storage unit B55 (S303), the message storage information is sent to the contractor (S304).

In this embodiment, an example of transfer to a speech synthesis / storage device via a public network via a modem has been described. As is well known, a mail server is usually connected to a LAN, and Communication means for transmitting data via the public network via the modem 2, for example, a network protocol Et
A connection port such as a hernet may be provided to directly send data to the speech synthesis storage device 5 via the Internet.

In the present embodiment, the speech synthesis and storage device 5
Although the side has the service control unit and the condition determination processing unit 51, these functions may be provided on the exchange side 4.

[0033]

As described above, the mail transfer system according to the present invention allows the user to use only the radio telephone when going out without having to carry a plurality of terminals such as a radio telephone, a PDA, and a pager. Thus, only the necessary e-mail to the user can be obtained.

In addition to the configuration in which the user can arbitrarily set the e-mail arrival conditions, the radio telephone has a real-time arrival display means for each service type, so that when the user really needs the necessary e-mail, It is possible to receive a call at a necessary place, and in addition to the effective use of the advantage of e-mail, there is also an effect that a communication fee can be reduced.

Thus, a mail transfer system that can automatically obtain an e-mail from a mail server under a condition arbitrarily determined by a user at any time and place with a minimum mobile terminal including only a radio telephone is realized. can do.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of a mail transfer system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure when an electronic mail arrives in a mail server of the mail transfer system of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing a processing procedure in the voice synthesizing and storing apparatus of the mail transfer system of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Mail server 2, 52 Modem 3 External storage device 4 Switch 5 Speech synthesis storage device 6 Radio base station 7 Radio telephone 11 Mail reception monitoring unit 12 User designation processing execution unit 13 Mailbox access processing unit 14 Message processing unit 15 Communication control unit Reference Signs List 16 modem control unit 31 mailbox 32, 57 user file 51 condition determination processing unit 53 voice synthesis unit 54 voice storage unit A 55 voice storage unit B 56 service control unit 141 message edit creation processing unit 142 transfer condition setting processing unit 143 condition determination Processing unit 144 Incoming condition setting processing unit 151 Modem initialization processing unit 152 Message transmission / reception processing unit 153 Call connection control processing unit

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Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A portable wireless telephone, a mail server having a function of transferring text data via a LAN or a modem, and performing voice synthesis conversion on the text data transferred from the mail server. A voice synthesizing and storing device having a function of storing the synthesized voice message in a voice storing unit, wherein the voice synthesizing and storing processing unit determines whether the voice mail is a normal voice mail or an electronic mail transferred via the modem. in mail forwarding system having a condition determination processing unit for judging, before
The mail server constantly monitors incoming mail and
User in the incoming mail according to the conditions set for each user.
Means for extracting items that meet the user's instruction conditions.
At least the user set the extracted email
It has a function to transfer according to conditions, and the transfer specification of the user
If the destination is a telephone number, the
Header and mail body, and add a forwarding phone number
Communication means for transmitting to the public network via the modem
Mail forwarding system characterized by having a. 2. A portable wireless telephone and a LAN or
Has a function to transfer text data via a modem.
Mail server and the mail server
The text data is subjected to speech synthesis conversion, and the data is
A function to store a synthesized voice message in the voice storage unit
And a speech synthesis storage device having the same.
Is connected to the exchange accommodating the wireless base station.
Always voicemail or forwarded via the modem
Determination of the received e-mail and the speech synthesis accumulation
Service contract for each user in the user file provided on the device
Condition judgment processing to judge processing of incoming mail from contract information
A mail transfer system characterized by having a section . 3. The mail transfer system according to claim 2,
For each service subscribed to by the user.
The voice synthesis storage device and the exchange
A mail transfer system comprising a service control unit in any of the devices. 4. The mail transfer system according to claim 2 , wherein said incoming mail is said electronic mail.
Is via a modem provided in the speech synthesis storage device ,
A speech synthesis module for converting the text data into speech data.
Switching unit, wherein the voice storage unit is a normal wireless telephone.
Or the voice mail from the public network and speech synthesis converted
A mail transfer system for storing the data separately .