KR100387427B1 - Random Type E-mail Service Method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a new e-daily service method using a new method, comprising: receiving a membership from a user and storing the input user information in a DB server; As the sender connects and selects an e-mail service, the web server providing a web page including a random receiving check box; Providing, by the web server, a receiver condition selection web page; Storing the contents of the created e-mail in a story server, and the web server selecting a receiver in a random manner by matching the receiver condition with user information stored in the DB server; Receiving, by a mail server, the recipient's email address from a web server, receiving previously stored email contents from a story server, and transmitting the email to the recipient; If the web server checks whether the random recipient receives the e-mail sent within a certain period of time and receives the message within a predetermined period, the mail server sends a confirmation mail to the sender, and if it does not receive the message within the predetermined period of time. Repeating the recipient selection step and the e-mail transmission step again.

Description

Random Type E-mail Service Method

The present invention relates to a random email transmission method, and more particularly, when a sender wants to send an email to an unknown party who does not know an email address, the web server writes to the DB server and the story server. The present invention relates to a random e-mail service method of transmitting e-mails by selecting recipients in a predetermined random manner using stored member information.

Recently, with the development of the Internet, various e-mail service methods have been provided on the Internet. The conventional method of providing an e-mail service over the Internet fills in an e-mail address of a recipient already known to send an e-mail, and a mail server sends an e-mail to a recipient having the e-mail address. Has been taken. In addition, to eliminate the inconvenience of entering an e-mail address manually, simply register the e-mail address of the recipient who frequently sends e-mails in the address book, and simply click the e-mail address registered in the address book when sending e-mails. There is also a way to send an e-mail to the recipient.

However, since all of the above methods are a method of directly inputting an e-mail address of a receiver already known or searching and clicking in an address book, the sender directly designates a receiver.

Therefore, the problem is raised that the sender cannot send an e-mail to a person who does not know the e-mail address.

In addition, as e-mail is becoming more and more common, there is an increasing desire to form new relationships and make friends. In the conventional way, it is impossible to send e-mails to people who do not know e-mail addresses. It is difficult to provide services that meet

In addition, as the number of sites providing e-mail services increases, each website may be more interesting to users outside of the standard e-mail service as a way for users to use their websites. By providing a new type of e-mail service, it is demanding to increase the number of members and increase the site access rate.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and even if the sender does not know the recipient's e-mail address, the e-mail is designated by specifying a specific recipient in a random manner among a list of recipients that meet certain conditions selected by the sender It is an object of the present invention to provide an e-mail service method in which the e-mail is transmitted and the e-mail recipients do not receive the e-mail for a certain period of time, and the e-mail transmission is repeated by random selection of other recipients and e-mail transmission.

1 is a schematic structural diagram of a system for performing an e-mail transmission method according to the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a random-type e-mail service method according to the present invention.

3 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a random method of an e-mail service through the Internet according to the present invention.

4 shows an example of the detection status of a random recipient list that includes information about certain evaluation factors of each user.

5A to 5F illustrate an example of an actual web page provided to a user by the web server of the present invention in providing the e-mail service method of the present invention.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a system for performing an e-mail service method through the Internet according to the present invention, in which a plurality of users (100a to 100n, 110a to 110n) who want to use the e-mail service are connected to the Internet. It is connected to a web server 120 providing an e-mail service. The user is classified as a sender (100a to 100n) when the e-mail is sent, and the recipients (110a to 110n) when the e-mail is transmitted.

At this time, the plurality of senders 100a to 100n, the plurality of receivers 110a to 110n, and the web server 120 are provided with a communication interface such as a modem for accessing the Internet and appropriate software. With the recent development of wireless mobile communication, a user, a sender, and a receiver may access the web server 120 through a wireless mobile phone in the same manner as, for example, WAP.

In addition, the web server 120 includes a mail server 121, a DB server 122, and a story server 123.

First, a brief description of the mail server is that every network that uses e-mail over the Internet must have a mail server, and this mail server has the ability to manage incoming and outgoing e-mail. In charge. There are two types of emails sent from one host to another: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), and web and POP (IMAP). Web-based email is an email that can be sent and received only by accessing a specialized website that provides e-mail services (e.g. www.daum.net). Email (POP) is a POP (Post Office Protocol). ) And the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), which allows a single user to receive e-mail from a website's mail server using a mail program such as Outlook Express, without having to visit the website directly using a browser. That's the way email is. The mail server 121 of the present invention may be configured to provide a mail service of the SMTP method and the web method or POP (IMAP) method.

Next, the DB server 122 stores various pieces of information that the user fills out when registering for membership. Examples of the user information include a user's ID (e-mail address), password, name, social security number, telephone number, gender, age, address, occupation, and interest. The above information is fixed information which does not change unless a change procedure is separately performed.

In contrast, the story server 123 first stores the contents of the e-mail prepared by the sender, and stores flexible information such as whether the other recipient checks the e-mail.

Next, an e-mail service method through the Internet according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 2, 3, 4, and 5A to 5E.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a random method of an e-mail service through the Internet according to the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a method of using a random method through the Internet according to the present invention. 5A to 5E are specific examples of actual web pages provided to a user by the web server of the present invention in providing the e-mail service method of the present invention.

First, the web server 120 receives a subscription from the user (100a to 100n, 110a to 110n) to use the e-mail service of the present invention (S 210, Fig. 2, 3). The random e-mail service of the present invention is a method in which a website randomly selects recipients among members who have previously known user information as described below. Therefore, in order to provide a service, the website needs to know the member's information in advance, so that it can be provided between members of the same website or between members of the website sharing the user information.

Referring to FIG. 5A, the web server 120 provides a web page for inputting user information such as ID (e-mail address), password, name, social security number, telephone number, gender, age, address, occupation, and the like. The user information input in this way is stored in the DB server 122 (S 210-1, Fig. 3).

Next, as the sender 100a to 100n of the user who wants to send an e-mail accesses the web server 120 and logs in to select an e-mail service, the web server 120 includes a random reception check box. Provide a web page (S 220).

For example, the web page includes a recipient column, a subject line, a body column, and an attached file column, as shown in FIG. 5B. The recipient page is a general web page including an e-mail address description column 520 and an address book 522. The method may further include a random reception check box 524. In this case, the sender 100a to 100n directly enters the recipient's email address in the email address field 520 or selects a desired address from the address book 522 to directly display the recipient as in an ordinary email service. This may be specified, or the recipient may be randomly designated by clicking the random reception check box 524.

In addition, the web page may take the form of including a random reception check box 530 without the e-mail address description and address book, as shown in FIG. 5C. In this case, the web server 120 may take a method of providing a web page that basically adopts random reception as shown in FIG. 5C when providing an e-mail service to emphasize the personality of the website or to induce the interest of the sender. If the sender selects a web page (not shown) to select random reception and the sender selects it, the web page shown in FIG. 5C may be provided.

Next, as the senders 100a to 100n select random reception, the web server 120 provides a receiver condition selection web page (S 230). That is, when the sender 100a to 100n clicks on the random reception check boxes 524 and 530 in the web page of FIG. 5B or 5C, the web server 120 provides a recipient condition selection web page as shown in FIG. 5D, for example. do. Recipient conditions may include gender 540, age 541, region 542, occupation 543, interests 544, and the like, as shown in FIG. 5D, which may be a user. Is registered in the DB server 122 as a matter registered at the time of membership registration, it is possible to detect a list of users meeting the receiver condition by matching with user information.

As such, when the sender 100a to 100n selects the condition of the recipient and then selects the transmission of the e-mail by clicking the send button 545 in FIG. 5D, for example, the web server 120 sends the e-mail content. The data is stored in the story server 123 (S 240), and the random receiver selection step is performed (S 250).

Specifically, the random receiver selection step, the web server 120 is registered in the DB server 122 and the conditions of the receiver selected by the sender (100a to 100n) by the random receiver selection program (embedded in the web server) The list of recipients matching the conditions is detected by matching the user information, and the final random receiver is detected according to a random method among the list of detected recipients.

As an example of a random method in the final receiver detection, a priority may be selected according to a first predetermined criterion to select the final random receiver having the highest priority. That is, for each of the detected recipient list as shown in FIG. 4, the DB points 122 and the story server 123 according to the usage results on the website, earned points, membership, random e-mail reception and recent reception date Collect information about evaluation factors such as user names, and the like, and are proportional to the earning points, the sooner the membership is, the more the users who do not receive e-mails have priority, and the users who received them are out of date. The priority may be determined by assigning a priority score to each evaluation element in a manner of giving priority to the user and alphabetically by name. The priority scores for each of the evaluation elements may be summed to determine the user having the largest sum score as the final random receiver, or the final random receiver may be determined based only on the priority score for any one of the evaluation factors. Web server 120 receives some information, such as earning points, membership date, name for the information about the evaluation element is received from the DB server 122 (S 250-1, Figure 3), whether random e-mail reception And information such as the latest reception date may be transmitted from the story server 123 (S 250-2, FIG. 3).

As a second example of the random method in detecting the final receiver, there is a method of detecting the final random receiver in the recipient list by a completely random operation scheme. That is, a method of randomly extracting and determining the final random receiver from the receiver list satisfying the condition is determined. An example of the random extraction method is the conventional lottery drawing method of determining the final winner in the population by various methods such as archery, ball extraction, etc. will be.

Next, the mail server 121 receives the e-mail address of the detected final random recipient from the web server 120 (S260-1, FIG. 3), and the e-mail previously stored from the story server 123. Receiving the content (S 260-2, Figure 3), and sends the e-mail to the final random recipient (S 260). The web server 120 does not provide information such as the ID of the final random recipient as shown in FIG. 5E, but merely provides a web page that informs the anonymous random recipient that the e-mail has been successfully transmitted.

Next, the web server 120 checks whether the random recipient receives the transmitted e-mail within a predetermined period of time (S 270). The period can be appropriately determined, such as 3 days, 5 days, and 7 days.

If the reception is within a certain period, the web server 120 confirms such contents, and the mail server 121 transmits a confirmation mail to the senders 100a to 100n (S280). 5F shows an example of the confirmation mail. The mail server 121 no longer sends the sender's e-mail and the service of the present invention is terminated.

If not received within a certain period of time, that is, if the random recipient is left without checking the contents of the e-mail sent or deleted immediately, go back to the previous step (S 290) to select another random recipient again step Step 260 and step S 270 of sending an e-mail are repeated. In this way, the e-mail is sent and the e-mail is repeatedly selected and randomly selected until there is a recipient who receives the e-mail within a certain period of time. That is, when any one recipient who meets the condition desired by the sender receives the e-mail, the mail server 121 no longer transmits the e-mail and terminates the e-mail service of the present invention.

Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to preferred embodiments, the scope of the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments, and should be interpreted by the appended claims.

According to the present invention, the sender can send an e-mail to an unknown party who does not know the e-mail address or unknown party that satisfies a certain condition desired by the sender, thereby forming a new relationship or making a friend. The desire to do it is effective.

In addition, from the viewpoint of the website, by providing a new type of service away from the conventional standardized e-mail service, there is an effect that it is possible to induce the interest of users and increase the use of the users.

Claims (6)

A first step of receiving a member registration from a user connected to a web server and storing the input user information in a DB server; A second step of the web server providing a web page including a random reception check box as the caller connects and selects an e-mail service; A third step of providing a web page from which a web server can select a recipient condition as a caller clicks on the random reception check box; As the sender selects the recipient's condition, the contents of the user-created e-mail are stored in the story server, and the web server generates a recipient list that meets the recipient's condition by matching the recipient condition with the user information stored in the DB server. A fourth step of detecting and selecting recipients in a random manner from the recipient list; A fifth step in which a mail server receives the recipient's e-mail address from a web server, receives previously stored e-mail contents from a story server, and transmits the e-mail to the recipient; The web server checks whether the random recipient receives the e-mail sent within a predetermined time period, and if the mail server receives the mail within a predetermined time period, the mail server sends a confirmation mail to the sender and does not receive the mail within the predetermined time period. If not, a sixth step of repeating the fourth step of selecting a recipient and the fifth step of sending an e-mail. The method of claim 1, Wherein the user information of the first step and the recipient condition of the third step include gender, age, address, occupation, and interest. The method according to claim 1 or 2, In the random method of the fourth step, a random score is assigned to each evaluation element of each recipient list, and the user having the highest score is determined as the receiver. The method of claim 3, wherein The evaluation element is a random point e-mail service method characterized in that it comprises a reward point, membership, random e-mail reception and recent reception date, user name. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The random method of the fourth step is a random e-mail service method, characterized in that for determining the recipient by a random extraction method through a computer random operation. The method according to claim 1 or 2, And the user, the sender, and the receiver access a web server using a wireless mobile telephone.