JP3853171B2 - Email address conversion system - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a mail address conversion system that realizes concealment of an actual mobile phone number and mail address when exchanging electronic mail via a network.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In recent years, an environment in which so-called electronic mail is generally used is being prepared. Specifically, e-mail includes mail data including text data, HTML data, and the like transmitted and received between information terminals via a network such as a public line or a dedicated line.
[0003]
Conventionally, when sending and receiving mail data, a personal computer is generally used as an information terminal. The Internet standard SMTP (Simple Male Transfer Protocol) is used as a mail delivery protocol, and mail address data described in a domain format (specifically, such as ××× .co.jp) is used. The other party is identified and mail data is sent and received.
[0004]
In recent years, not only personal computers but also mobile phones can be used as information terminals. In transmission / reception of mail data using a mobile phone, the mobile phone number registered with the provider is often used as it is as an email address.
[0005]
Now, when exchanging electronic mails in this way, it is necessary to notify one's own mail address and to acquire the other party's mail address. In recent years, business manners for distributing business cards in which an e-mail address is described along with a telephone number are spreading, which is generally preferable from the viewpoint of self-introduction and company PR.
[0006]
However, recently, there is a growing recognition that it is not preferable to inform cell phone numbers and e-mail addresses without protection. For example, there are not a few cases in which e-mails continue to be sent to mobile phones and personal computers for the purpose of harassment of specific individuals and companies, and harassment, slander, and other reasons. Yes. Also, e-mail addresses may be used for antisocial and criminal activities that cannot be envisaged in the future.
[0007]
In particular, when sending e-mails over a network, e-mails may be delivered to a large number of unspecified people at the same time, and spoofing using e-mail addresses attached to such e-mails. In the event that a criminal act has been carried out, it will be unbearable to the parties, and there is no way to deal with it.
[0008]
In addition, due to such damage, it may lead to a situation where the e-mail address is changed, but the work for changing the e-mail address, e-mail address change notification to other people after the change, and the costs associated with these change work etc. There were also requests to avoid such changes if possible.
[0009]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and its purpose is to make sure that only a reliable family / friend can use an original private e-mail address, and the unidentified nature is still unknown. An object is to provide an e-mail address conversion system in which a public e-mail address is notified to a large number of persons so that the original private e-mail address can be concealed.
[0010]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to solve the above-described problem, according to the mail address conversion system described in claim 1 of the present invention, a mail address that performs a concealment process of address data included in mail data communicated between a plurality of terminals via a network. A conversion system,
A database that registers private address data and public address data in association with each other;
From a source may be registered the private address data of the reply desired destination in the case that contains the private address data of reply desired destination in the mail data to the destination, to the mail data to be transmitted from the source to the destination based on the public address data of the source private address data and the transmission destination included, the private address data of the source of the public address data and the transmission destination searching extracted from the database, contained in the original message data wherein the source private address data rewrites the public address data of the source rewritten public address data of the destination private address data of the destination to be, and the reply desired destination private address data The generates new mail data hidden, wherein, when the mail data is transmitted to the destination, which includes the origin of the public address data to the destination of the mail data is a reply from the destination and the mail server to transfer the source of the public address data is rewritten to the private address data of the reply desired destination,
It is characterized by providing.
[0012]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, a mail address conversion system according to the present invention will be described. First, the mail address conversion system and the entire system in which this system is used will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the entire system including the mail address conversion system of this embodiment.
[0013]
The entire system includes a mail address conversion system 100, networks 200 and 500, a personal computer 300, a portable terminal 400, and a transfer server 600. The mail address conversion system 100 according to the present embodiment is included in a part of the entire system.
[0014]
As shown in FIG. 1, the mail address conversion system 100 is a system including at least a mail server 10, a database server 20, and a database 30. Since the mail address conversion system 100 of this embodiment has a LAN (Local Area Network) configuration, the router 40 connects the network 200 to the LAN configured mail server 10 and database server 20.
[0015]
The mail server 10 has a function of converting public address data and private address data included in the transferred mail data. A specific conversion example will be described later.
The database server 20 searches the database 30 for public address data and private address data in response to a search command transmitted from the mail server 10, and stores various data registered in association with these public address data and private address data. It has a function of extracting and returning to the mail server 10. The mail address conversion system 100 is like this.
[0016]
Although the mail server 10 and the database server 20 have been described as being configured by a LAN, a single server having high capability may have the functions of the mail server 10 and the database server 20. These configurations are appropriately designed and selected.
[0017]
The network 200 is a network that can use the Internet in particular, and includes an ISDN (Integrated Service Digital Network) line, an analog public line, various dedicated lines, and the like.
The network 500 is a network in which the portable terminal 600 having a wireless communication function can be used, and includes, for example, a wireless telephone line connected to a mobile phone capable of sending and receiving e-mails.
[0018]
The personal computer 300 is communicably connected to the network 200 so that electronic mail can be exchanged by sending and receiving mail data.
The mobile terminal 400 is connected to the network 500 so as to be communicable, and is various information terminal devices such as a mobile phone, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), and a palmtop personal computer that can exchange e-mails by transmitting and receiving mail data. .
[0019]
The transfer server 600 is a normal server and has a function of transferring such mail data to the mail address conversion system 100 based on the address data when such mail data is transmitted.
The entire system is configured in this way.
[0020]
Next, mail address conversion processing by the mail address conversion system 100 will be described.
First , the mail address conversion system 100 of the first embodiment will be described. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of mail address conversion processing by the mail address conversion system of this embodiment, and FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of the data structure of the database. The mail address conversion system 100 according to the first embodiment will be described as having the mail address conversion system 100 described with reference to FIG.
[0021]
FIG. 2 shows a state where transmission / reception is performed twice between A and B via the mail address conversion system 100. In this case, user A conceals his address data and transmits an e-mail to user B, and user B also conceals his address data and returns an e-mail to user A.
[0022]
Upper row (1) means transmission from A to B, and lower row (2) means transmission from B to A for reply. In this case, both A and B are members who can receive the provision of a mail address conversion service, A knows B's public address data but does not know B's private address data, and B knows A's It knows the public address data but does not know A's private address data.
[0023]
First, by operating the personal computer 300 of the sender A or the portable terminal 400 (hereinafter simply referred to as an information terminal), the address data of the sender A is changed to aaa@bbb.or.jp which is private address data. Further, the address data of the destination B is set to 111@fr-party.ne.jp which is public address data. In the display section of the information terminal, “From” displays aaa@bbb.or.jp and “To” displays 111@fr-party.ne.jp.
[0024]
When the sender A operates the information terminal and sends it, the mail data is sent to the network 500 as shown in FIG. 1, and the forwarding server 600 converts the destination to the mail address from the address data 111@fr-party.ne.jp. Set in the system 100 and send mail data to the mail address conversion system 100. The mail server 10 receives this mail data.
The mail server 10 extracts the source address data and the destination address data from the received mail data.
[0025]
The mail server 10 starts searching for whether the address data extracted from the mail data is registered in the database 30. The mail server 10 transmits a search command to the database server 20 and searches aaa@bbb.or.jp and 111@fr-party.ne.jp in the database 30. As shown in FIG. 3, in the database 30, it is registered that aaa@bbb.or.jp is Taro's private address and the public address of this person is 222@fr-party.ne.jp. 111@fr-party.ne.jp is Hanako's public address, and the private address of this person is registered as ccc@ddd.or.jp, and registered users A and B It is determined that the mail exchange is between.
[0026]
The mail server 10 rewrites the private address data aaa@bbb.or.jp of the sender A included in the original mail data to the public address data 222@fr-party.ne.jp of the sender A. Similarly, the public address data 111@fr-party.ne.jp of the destination B included in the original mail data is rewritten to the private address data ccc@ddd.or.jp of the destination B.
If the mail address conversion process as described above is performed, new mail data is generated and this mail data is transmitted to the destination B.
[0027]
At destination B, as shown in FIG. 2, 222@fr-party.ne.jp, which is the public address data of source A, and ccc@ddd.or.jp, which is the private address data of destination B E-mail data including is received, and 222@fr-party.ne.jp is displayed in “From” and ccc@ddd.or.jp is displayed in “To” on the display unit of the information terminal. Thus, the sender A does not know the private address data of the destination B, but can send mail using the public address data.
[0028]
Next, a case will be described in which an e-mail is returned to A, where B, which is the transmission destination, is the transmission source. Hereinafter, it is assumed that the transmission source is B and the transmission destination is A.
By operating the information terminal of sender B, the address data of sender B is private address data ccc@ddd.or.jp, and the address data of destination A is 222 @ fr- Set to party.ne.jp. In the display section of the information terminal, “From” displays ccc@ddd.or.jp, and “To” displays 222@fr-party.ne.jp.
[0029]
When the information terminal is operated and transmitted, the mail data is transmitted to the mail address conversion system 100 via the transfer server 600 shown in FIG. The mail server 10 receives this mail data. The mail server 10 extracts the source address data and the destination address data from the received mail data.
[0030]
The mail server 10 searches whether or not the extracted address data is registered in the database 30. The mail server 10 transmits a search command to the database server 20 and searches whether ccc@ddd.or.jp and 222@fr-party.ne.jp are registered in the database 30. As shown in FIG. 3, in the database 30, it is registered that ccc@ddd.or.jp is Hanako's private address and his public address is 111@fr-party.ne.jp. 222@fr-party.ne.jp is Taro's public address, and his private address is registered as aaa@bbb.or.jp. It is determined that the mail is exchanged between B.
[0031]
The mail server 10 rewrites the private address data ccc@ddd.or.jp of the sender B included in the original mail data to the public address data 111@fr-party.ne.jp of the sender B. Similarly, the public address data 222@fr-party.ne.jp of the destination A included in the original mail data is rewritten to the private address data aaa@bbb.or.jp of the destination A.
If the mail address conversion process as described above is performed, new mail data is generated and this mail data is transmitted to the destination A.
[0032]
At the destination A, as shown in FIG. 2, 111@fr-party.ne.jp, which is the public address data of the source B, and aaa@bbb.or.jp, which is the private address data of the destination A Is received, and 111@fr-party.ne.jp is displayed in “From” and aaa@bbb.or.jp is displayed in “To” on the display unit of the information terminal. Thus, the sender B does not know the private address data of the destination A, but can send mail using the public address data.
[0033]
As described above, A and B do not know their private addresses, but can exchange e-mails by sending e-mails to public addresses. That is, it becomes possible to conceal each other's private address.
[0034]
Next, the second embodiment will be described according to the first aspect of the present invention. The mail address conversion system 100 according to the second embodiment will also be described as having the mail address conversion system 100 described with reference to FIG.
In the present embodiment, when an e-mail is transmitted, it corresponds to a case where a sender notifies the e-mail address of a reply destination when he / she wants to send an e-mail to another terminal that is not the terminal used for the e-mail transmission. E-mail address conversion service. As an example of this, there may be a case where a person sends an e-mail using a mobile phone and wants to send the reply e-mail to a laptop computer with a communication function that he owns.
[0035]
FIG. 4 shows a state in which transmission / reception is performed twice between A and B via the mail address conversion system 100. In this case, user A conceals his address data and transmits an e-mail to user B, and user B also conceals his address data and returns an e-mail to user A.
[0036]
Further, the upper stage (1) means transmission from A to B, and the lower stage (2) means transmission from B to A for reply. In this case, both A and B are members who can receive the provision of a mail address conversion service, A knows B's public address data but does not know B's private address data, and B knows A's It knows the public address data but does not know A's private address data.
Further, it is assumed that the terminal used by the transmission source A and the terminal used by the transmission destination A are different, and the address data is different.
[0037]
First, by operating the information terminal of sender A, the address data of sender A is private address data aaa@bbb.or.jp, and the address data of destination B is public address data 111 @ fr- Set party.ne.jp and return address data to eee@fff.or.jp which is private address data. In the display section of the information terminal, “From” displays aaa@bbb.or.jp, “To” displays 111@fr-party.ne.jp, and “Reply to” displays eee@fff.or.jp Is done.
[0038]
When mail data is transmitted by operating the information terminal, the mail data is transmitted to the mail address conversion system 100 via the transfer server 600 shown in FIG. The mail server 10 receives this mail data.
The mail server 10 extracts the address data of the transmission source A and the address data of the transmission destination B from the received mail data.
[0039]
The mail server 10 searches whether or not the extracted address data is registered in the database 30. The mail server 10 transmits a search command to the database server 20 to search whether aaa@bbb.or.jp and 111@fr-party.ne.jp are registered in the database 30. As shown in FIG. 3, in the database 30, it is registered that aaa@bbb.or.jp is Taro's private address and the public address of this person is 222@fr-party.ne.jp. 111@fr-party.ne.jp is Hanako's public address, and it is determined that ccc@ddd.or.jp is registered as his private address.
[0040]
The mail server 10 rewrites the private address data aaa@bbb.or.jp of the sender A included in the original mail data to the public address data 222@fr-party.ne.jp of the sender A. Similarly, the public address data 111@fr-party.ne.jp of the destination B included in the original mail data is rewritten to the private address data ccc@ddd.or.jp of the destination B. Next, when an e-mail is sent with ccc@ddd.or.jp as the source and 222@fr-party.ne.jp as the destination, the destination is eee@fff.or.jp. Set the transfer settings to
[0041]
If the mail address conversion process as described above is performed, new mail data is generated and this mail data is transmitted to the destination B.
At the destination B, as shown in FIG. 4, 222@fr-party.ne.jp, which is the public address data of the source A, and ccc@ddd.or.jp, which is the private address data of the destination B E-mail data including is received, and 222@fr-party.ne.jp is displayed in “From” and ccc@ddd.or.jp is displayed in “To” on the display unit of the information terminal B. Thus, the sender A does not know the private address data of the destination B, but can send mail using the public address data.
[0042]
Next, a case will be described in which an e-mail is returned to A, where B, which is the transmission destination, is the transmission source. In the following description, it is assumed that the transmission source is B and the transmission destination is A.
By operating the information terminal of sender B, the address data of sender B is private address data ccc@ddd.or.jp, and the address data of destination A is 222 @ fr- Set to party.ne.jp. In the display section of the information terminal B, ccc@ddd.or.jp is displayed in “From” and 222@fr-party.ne.jp is displayed in “To”.
[0043]
When mail data is transmitted by operating the information terminal, the mail data is transmitted to the mail address conversion system 100 via the transfer server 600 shown in FIG. The mail server 10 receives this mail data. The mail server 10 extracts the address data of the transmission source B and the address data of the transmission destination A from the received mail data.
[0044]
The mail server 10 performs a search using the extracted address data. The mail server 10 transmits a search command to the database server 20 and searches whether ccc@ddd.or.jp and 222@fr-party.ne.jp are registered in the database 30. As shown in FIG. 3, in the database 30, it is registered that ccc@ddd.or.jp is Hanako's private address and his public address is 111@fr-party.ne.jp. 222@fr-party.ne.jp is Taro's public address, and his private address is registered as aaa@bbb.or.jp. It is determined that the mail is exchanged between B.
[0045]
Further, the mail server 10 searches whether a reply setting is registered in the database 30. In this case, when an e-mail is first sent from sender A to destination B, the e-mail is sent from sender ccc@ddd.or.jp to destination 222@fr-party.ne.jp. Since it is set to transfer to eee@fff.or.jp, the address data of the destination A is changed to eee@fff.or.jp.
[0046]
The mail server 10 rewrites the private address data ccc@ddd.or.jp of the sender included in the original mail data to the public address data 111@fr-party.ne.jp of the sender. Similarly, the destination public address data 222@fr-party.ne.jp included in the original mail data is rewritten to the destination private address data eee@fff.or.jp.
If the mail address conversion process as described above is performed, new mail data is generated and this mail data is transmitted to the destination A.
[0047]
At destination A, which is another information terminal, as shown in FIG. 4, 111@fr-party.ne.jp which is the public address data of source B and eee which is the private address data of destination A E-mail data including @ fff.or.jp is received, and 111@fr-party.ne.jp is displayed in “From” and eee@fff.or.jp is displayed in “To” on the display section of the information terminal. Is done. Thus, the sender B does not know the private address data of the destination A, but can send mail using the public address data.
[0048]
As described above, A and B do not know their private addresses, but can exchange e-mails by sending e-mails to public addresses. Even if the transfer destination is set, it is possible to exchange e-mails while keeping each other's private address secret.
[0049]
As described above, this mail address conversion system is expected to be used by people who want to exchange e-mails using a mobile phone (the company address is not public). In addition, if the provider provides a billing system that charges for the use of this email address conversion system, the provider provides ancillary services such as a mail friend matching service, a service for searching for a mail partner that meets a specific condition, and an email address exchange fee or There is a possibility of business as a source of revenue from member registration fees.
[0050]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, only a reliable family / friend can use an original private e-mail address, and a public e-mail address is notified to an unspecified number of unidentified persons. It is possible to provide an e-mail address conversion system that can conceal an original private e-mail address.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an entire system including a mail address conversion system according to first and second embodiments of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of mail address conversion processing by the mail address conversion system according to the first embodiment of this invention.
FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a data structure of a database.
FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of mail address conversion processing by the mail address conversion system according to the second embodiment of this invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
100 mail address conversion system 10 mail server 20 database server 30 database 40 router 200 network 300 personal computer 400 portable terminal 500 network 600 transfer server

Claims (1)

An e-mail address conversion system that performs confidential processing of address data included in e-mail data communicated between a plurality of terminals via a network,
A database that registers private address data and public address data in association with each other;
From a source may be registered the private address data of the reply desired destination in the case that contains the private address data of reply desired destination in the mail data to the destination, to the mail data to be transmitted from the source to the destination based on the public address data of the source private address data and the transmission destination included, the private address data of the source of the public address data and the transmission destination searching extracted from the database, contained in the original message data wherein the source private address data rewrites the public address data of the source rewritten public address data of the destination private address data of the destination to be, and the reply desired destination private address data The generates new mail data hidden, wherein, when the mail data is transmitted to the destination, which includes the origin of the public address data to the destination of the mail data is a reply from the destination and the mail server to transfer the source of the public address data is rewritten to the private address data of the reply desired destination,
An e-mail address conversion system comprising:

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