KR100986408B1

KR100986408B1 - Method and system for notifying arrival of mass e-mail for mobile communication terminal in mail server

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Publication number: KR100986408B1
Application number: KR20080046237A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 양미화; 이해성
Original assignee: 주식회사 엘지유플러스
Priority date: 2008-05-19
Filing date: 2008-05-19
Publication date: 2010-10-08
Also published as: KR20090120281A

Abstract

Disclosed are a mass mail arrival notification method and system from a mail server to a mobile communication terminal. A mass mail arrival notification method from a mail server to a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: accessing an external mail server to receive list information of mail; Analyzing the received list information to determine whether the mail has a large capacity; And if it is determined that the mail is large, providing a notification mail to the mobile communication terminal in relation to the mail.

Bulk mail, notification mail, mail server, list information, email sending and receiving

Description

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NOTIFYING ARRIVAL OF MASS E-MAIL FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL IN MAIL SERVER}

The present invention relates to a method and system for notifying arrival of a large amount of mail from a mail server to a mobile communication terminal.

Mobile communication terminals are becoming a necessity of life for modern people. Mobile communication terminals are changing the life patterns of modern people by increasing convenience of communication and leading the spread of informatization.

The mobile terminal provides functions for the user's convenience of use, such as phone calls, text message transmission, ringtone setting, phonebook management, as well as the creation and transmission of e-mail, It provides various additional functions such as watching MP3, playing video, using internet through web, using messenger, watching DMB TV and playing games.

In particular, the e-mail function through the mobile communication terminal is increasingly used as the Internet using the mobile communication terminal becomes possible. Such a mobile communication terminal having an e-mail function is equipped with an e-mail client, allowing the user to send and receive e-mail. In this case, the mobile communication terminal may transmit and receive mail using POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) or SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol).

By the way, when the mail service through the mobile communication terminal, if the mail size is not too large, it is possible to collect data and mail service to the mobile communication terminal, but in the case of large files (eg 50MB or more) mobile communication The size is too large to serve as a terminal, so only the title + body can be cut and serviced.

However, if a large file has a meaning in the attached file, it is not meaningful to only service the body content, and the network wastes a lot to bear the load of the network to serve the mail body.

The present invention has been made to improve the prior art as described above, the present invention does not collect the mail in the case of a large volume of mail, instead of configuring a simple mass arrival notification mail to check the mail in the web mail instead By delivering to a communication terminal, it is an object to provide a mail service smoothly without omission even in the case of large-capacity mail.

The object of the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

In order to achieve the above object and solve the problems of the prior art, a mass mail arrival notification method from a mail server to a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, accessing an external mail server to receive list information of mail ; Analyzing the received list information to determine whether the mail has a large capacity; And if it is determined that the mail is large, providing a notification mail to the mobile communication terminal in relation to the mail.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, a mass mail arrival notification method from a mail server to a mobile communication terminal includes: requesting a mail server to receive a mail by driving an email application; If it is determined by the mail server that the received mail is a large amount, receiving a notification mail from the mail server in relation to the received requested mail; Storing the received notification mail in a memory; And exposing the stored notification mail on the screen.

A mass mail arrival notification system from a mail server to a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a communication unit for accessing an external mail server to receive list information of mail; An analysis unit for analyzing the received list information to determine whether the mail is large-capacity; And a provision unit for providing a notification mail to the mobile communication terminal in response to the mail being determined to be large.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, a mass mail arrival notification system from a mail server to a mobile communication terminal requests a mail server to receive a mail by running an email application, and the received mail is received by the mail server. A receiving unit which receives a notification mail in relation to the received request mail from the mail server when it is determined to be; A storage unit which stores the received notification mail in a memory; And an exposure unit exposing the stored notification mail on the screen.

Specific details of other embodiments are included in the detailed description and the accompanying drawings.

Advantages and features of the present invention and methods for achieving them will be apparent with reference to the embodiments described below in detail with the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments disclosed below, but may be implemented in various different forms, only the present embodiments to make the disclosure of the present invention complete, and common knowledge in the art to which the present invention pertains. It is provided to fully inform the person having the scope of the invention, which is defined only by the scope of the claims. Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, in the case of a large amount of mail, a large amount of mail is not collected, but instead, a simple large amount of arrival notification mail configured to check the mail in a web mail is configured to be delivered to a mobile communication terminal. The mail service can be provided smoothly without omission.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, by replacing the large-capacity mail with the notification mail, it is possible to reduce the load on the network according to the large-capacity mail, thereby minimizing the delay of mail collection.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a large-capacity mail can be expressed differently from other mails on the screen of the mobile communication terminal, so that the user can easily distinguish it from other mails.

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

1 is an overall configuration diagram of a mass mail arrival notification system from a mail server to a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, first, the mobile communication terminal 160 requests an email server 110 to receive a mail by driving an email application (email client) 170 mounted therein. Accordingly, the mail server 110 accesses the external mail server 120 to collect new mail, parses and stores the collected mail in a form that can be decrypted by the mobile communication terminal 160, and then stores the mobile mail terminal ( 160).

Here, the external mail server 120 receives a request for receiving a new mail periodically or in real time from the mail server 110, searches for the received mail and transmits the received mail to the mail server 110. The external mail server 120 may be understood as a concept encompassing an external mail server such as a company, a school, a portal site, or the like.

However, when the collected mail is a large amount of mail, the mail server 110 provides a notification mail to the mobile communication terminal 160 in association with the large amount of mail, instead of collecting the large amount of mail. To this end, before collecting the mail, the mail server 110 collects the mail list information (ID, size, arrival time, creation time, etc.) of the mail, and the mail is collected using the collected list information. Determine if the mail is large. Then, the mail server 110 collects only the accepted mail (small and medium size mail) using POP3 (Post Office Protocol version 3) according to the determination result, and replaces the large amount of mail with the notification mail to the mobile communication terminal 160. To provide.

The mail server 110 may store and record the collected mail (small and medium capacity mail) or notification mail in the database 130. In addition, the mail server 110 may search for the mail (including the notification mail) from the database 130 and transmit the searched mail to the mobile communication terminal 160 according to a request from the mobile communication terminal 160.

In this case, when the searched mail includes an attachment, the mail server 110 transmits the attachment to the document conversion server 150. The document conversion server 150 receives the attachment file from the mail server 110, converts the attached file into a format that can be viewed by the mobile communication terminal 160, and transmits it to the mobile communication terminal 160.

Alternatively, the mail server 110 may request the push server 140 to transmit a message informing the arrival of the new mail in order to notify the arrival of the retrieved mail. Accordingly, the push server 140 may transmit the arrival notification message of the new mail to the mobile communication terminal 160 as a short message service (SMS) message or a push mail.

2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a mass mail arrival notification system from a mail server to a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. Here, the mass mail arrival notification system may be installed and implemented in the mail server 110 of FIG. 1.

First, referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, a mass mail arrival notification system from a mail server to a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a communication unit 210, an analyzer 220, and a provider 230. do.

The communication unit 210 receives a request for receiving mail from the mobile communication terminal 160 by driving the email application 170 mounted in the mobile communication terminal 160. When receiving the request, the communication unit 210 accesses the external mail server 120 and receives list information of the mail.

At this time, the communication unit 210 connects to the external mail server 120 periodically or in real time, requests list information of the mail related to the mobile communication terminal 160, and in response thereto, the external mail server 120 receives the information from the external mail server 120. Receive mail list information.

The analysis unit 220 analyzes the received list information, and determines whether or not a large amount of the mail. Hereinafter, the analysis unit 220 of FIG. 2 will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 3.

3 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of the analyzer 220 of FIG. 2. Referring to FIG. 3, the analyzer 220 may include an extractor 310, a comparator 320, and a determiner 330.

The extractor 310 analyzes the received list information and extracts size information of the mail.

The comparison unit 320 compares the extracted first size information with the selected second size information.

The determination unit 330 determines whether the corresponding mail is a large amount of mail according to the comparison result. That is, if the extracted first size information is greater than or equal to the selected second size information, the determination unit 330 may determine the corresponding mail as a large amount of mail. On the other hand, if the extracted first size information is smaller than the selected second size information as a result of the comparison, the determination unit 330 may determine that the mail is not a large mail, that is, a mail of a small capacity. .

Referring back to FIG. 2, if it is determined that the mail is large, the providing unit 230 provides a notification mail to the mobile communication terminal 160 in relation to the mail. To this end, the analyzer 220 may analyze the list information of the received mail and extract ID information of the mail.

Hereinafter, the providing unit 230 of FIG. 2 will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 4.

4 is a block diagram illustrating the configuration of the providing unit 230 of FIG. 2. Referring to FIG. 4, the provider 230 may include a generator 410, a storage 420, and a transmitter 430.

The generation unit 410 may generate the notification mail by using the extracted ID information and information about the connected external mail server.

The storage unit 420 may store the generated notification mail in a database (see “130” of FIG. 1).

The transmitter 430 may provide the generated notification mail to the mobile communication terminal 160. In this case, the transmitter 430 may transmit the notification mail to the mobile communication terminal 160 instead of collecting the entire contents of the mail and transmitting the entire contents to the mobile communication terminal 160.

Meanwhile, although not shown in the drawing, the mobile communication terminal 160 may include a receiver, a storage, and an exposure unit.

The receiver of the mobile communication terminal 160 may drive the email application 160 to request the mail server 110 to receive the mail. If it is determined by the mail server 110 that the requested mail is a large amount, the receiving unit of the mobile communication terminal 160 may receive a notification mail in relation to the received requested mail from the mail server 110. Can be.

The storage unit of the mobile communication terminal 160 may store the received notification mail in a memory.

An exposure unit of the mobile communication terminal 160 may expose the stored notification mail on the screen. In this case, the exposure unit of the mobile communication terminal 160 may include the stored notification mail, create a mail list, and expose the created mail list on the screen. Here, the notification mail may include a code (for example, an avatar) for distinguishing it from other mails.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for notifying arrival of a large amount of mail from a mail server to a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. Here, the mass mail arrival notification method may be implemented by the “mass mail arrival notification system” of FIG. 2.

1 and 5, a user first transmits / receives mail through an email application 170 mounted in a mobile communication terminal 160. To this end, the user may drive the email application 170 to request the transmission / reception of mail through the mail server 110 directly through the Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) and the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). In this case, the mobile communication terminal 160 may transmit / receive mail through a relay server (not shown) installed between the mobile communication terminal 160 and the mail server 110.

Hereinafter, the description will be limited to the reception of the mail. Such limitations are for convenience of explanation and understanding of the present invention, but are not intended to limit the embodiments of the present invention. In addition, since the mail transmission process already corresponds to a well-known technique, a description thereof will be omitted.

Next, in step S510, the mass mail arrival notification system implemented in the mail server 110 connects to the external mail server 120 in response to a request from the mobile communication terminal 160, and displays list information of the mail ( Information such as ID, size, time of the mail) is received as brief information about the mail.

At this time, the mass mail arrival notification system periodically or real-time access to the external mail server 120, requests the list information of the mail associated with the mobile communication terminal 160, and in response to this from the external mail server 120 Receive list information of the mail.

Next, the mass mail arrival notification system analyzes the received list information to determine whether the mail is large.

That is, in step S520, the mass mail arrival notification system analyzes the received list information and extracts size information of the mail. Thereafter, in step S530, the mass mail arrival notification system compares the extracted first size information with the selected second size information (for example, 50 MB).

Thereafter, the mass mail arrival notification system determines whether the mail is a large mail based on the comparison result. That is, when the mass mail arrival notification system is larger than or equal to the selected second size information (50 MB) as a result of the comparison, the mail is large-capacity. It can be determined as the mail (S550).

Next, the mass mail arrival notification system provides a notification mail to the mobile communication terminal 160 in relation to the corresponding mail (mass mail). To this end, the mass mail arrival notification system may extract the ID information of the mail by analyzing the list information of the received mail.

That is, in step S560, the mass mail arrival notification system may generate the notification mail by using the extracted ID information (user's email account) and information (address, etc.) about the connected external mail server. have.

Thereafter, in step S570, the mass mail arrival notification system may store the generated notification mail in the database 130.

Thereafter, in step S580, the mass mail arrival notification system may provide the generated notification mail to the mobile communication terminal 160. In this case, the transmission unit 430 collects the entire contents (title, body, sender, attachment, etc.) for the mail and transmits the notification mail to the mobile communication terminal 160, instead of transmitting the notification mail to the mobile communication terminal 160. Can be sent to.

On the other hand, when the extracted first size information is smaller than the selected second size information (50MB) in step S540 (No direction in S540), the mass mail arrival notification system in step S590 is performed. The mail can be judged as a mail which is not a large capacity, that is, a mail of a small capacity.

Accordingly, in step S595, the mass mail arrival notification system may provide the mobile communication terminal 160 with the entire contents (title, body, sender, attachment, etc.) of the corresponding mail (small and medium size mail).

6 and 7 illustrate examples of expressing a large amount of arrival notification mail on a screen of a mobile communication terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

First, referring to FIG. 6, the mobile communication terminal 610 runs an email application mounted therein, receives a mail from a mail server through a protocol such as POP3 or SMTP, and transmits the received mail to the mobile communication terminal. The display may be displayed on the screen of 610.

In this case, the mobile communication terminal 610 may manage the received mail in a mail list, and the mail list may include other mails (small and medium-capacity mails) as well as large mails. The mobile terminal 610 may express a large amount of mail and a small sized mail differently among the mails in the mail list.

For example, the mobile communication terminal 610 is a small-capacity mail, whereas the "mail subject 1, sender", "mail subject 2, sender", "mail subject 3, sender", etc. In the case of the mail, it can be expressed as "large mail arrival notification" (620). Thus, the user of the mobile communication terminal 610 can easily distinguish between the large-capacity mail and other mail.

In addition, when the mobile communication terminal 610 is a large amount of mail, a notification generated by a mail server, not a mail collected from an actual external mail server (webmail) by attaching a code such as an icon 630 to a mail subject. You can indicate that this is an email. Thus, the user of the mobile communication terminal 610 can more easily distinguish a large amount of mail from other mails (small and medium capacity mail).

The user of the mobile communication terminal 610 may select a large amount of mail distinguished as described above from among the mails in the mail list (mail subject selection). In this case, the mobile communication terminal 610 may display a mail body corresponding to the large amount of mail on the screen. That is, as the mobile communication terminal 610 selects a large amount of mail from the mail list, as shown in FIG. 7, "Title: A large amount of mail has arrived to the customer." I arrived at my mail account (aaa@hanmail.net). LGT is using less than 10M of mail service on my device. Please check the webmail or PC for large volume mail. " The body of a large mail can be displayed on the screen.

Accordingly, the user of the mobile communication terminal 610 can check the contents (title, body, attachment, etc.) of the large-capacity mail with the corresponding mail account (aaa@hanmail.net) represented on the screen of the mobile communication terminal 610. Can be.

As described above, the mass mail arrival notification method from the mail server to the mobile communication terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention provides a simple notification mail for confirming the mail in the web mail instead of collecting the mail in the case of large mail. By constructing and delivering to a mobile communication terminal, the user can check without missing even a large mail.

Embodiments of the present invention include computer readable media including program instructions for performing various computer implemented operations. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, local data files, local data structures, or the like, alone or in combination. The media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical recording media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, magnetic-optical media such as floppy disks, and ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute the same program instructions are included. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like.

Although specific embodiments of the present invention have been described so far, various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the claims below, but also by the equivalents of the claims.

As described above, the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, which can be variously modified and modified by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Modifications are possible. Accordingly, the spirit of the present invention should be understood only by the claims set forth below, and all equivalent or equivalent modifications thereof will belong to the scope of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a mass mail arrival notification system from a mail server to a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating the configuration of the analyzer of FIG. 2.

4 is a block diagram illustrating the configuration of the providing unit of FIG. 2.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for notifying arrival of a large amount of mail from a mail server to a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

110: mail server 120: external mail server

130: database 140: push server

150: document conversion server 160: mobile communication terminal

170: email application 210: communication unit

220: analysis unit 230: providing unit

310: extraction unit 320: comparison unit

330: determination unit 410: generation unit

420: storage unit 430: transmission unit

Claims

In the mass mail arrival notification method implemented by a mass mail arrival notification system,

In the mass mail arrival notification system, accessing an external mail server and receiving list information of mail addressed to a mobile communication terminal;

In the mass mail arrival notification system, determining whether the mail is large by checking the volume of the mail by analyzing the received list information;

In the mass mail arrival notification system, when it is determined that the mail is a large amount, a notification mail related to the large amount of mail is generated and stored in a database, and when the mail is determined to be a small sized mail, the external mail server Receiving the small-capacity mail from the server and storing the small-size mail in the database; And

In the mass mail arrival notification system, an arrival notification message is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal, and the notification mail or the small- or medium-sized mail is retrieved from the database according to a request from the mobile communication terminal receiving the arrival notification message. Providing to the mobile communication terminal

Mass mail arrival notification method from the mail server to a mobile communication terminal comprising a.

The method of claim 1,

The step of determining whether the mail is large,

Analyzing the received list information to extract size information of the mail;

Comparing the extracted size information with predetermined size information; And

If the extracted size information is greater than or equal to the selected size information, determining the mail as a large amount of mail;

The method of claim 2,

The step of determining whether the mail is large,

If the extracted size information is smaller than the selected size information, determining the mail as a medium / small capacity mail;

Mass mail arrival notification method from the mail server to the mobile communication terminal further comprising a.

The method of claim 1,

In the mass mail arrival notification system, analyzing the received list information and extracting ID information of the mail; And

Generating, by the mass mail arrival notification system, the notification mail using the extracted ID information and information on the external mail server;

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A computer-readable recording medium for recording a program for executing the method of any one of claims 1 to 4 on a computer.

In a large mail arrival notification system from a mail server to a mobile communication terminal,

A communication unit which connects to an external mail server and receives list information of mail addressed to the mobile communication terminal;

An analysis unit to determine whether the mail is large by checking the capacity of the mail through analysis of the received list information;

A storage unit for receiving the small-sized mail from the external mail server and storing the small-sized mail in a database when the mail is determined to be a small-sized mail;

A generation unit for generating a notification mail in association with the large amount of mail so that the notification mail is stored in the database by the storage unit when it is determined that the mail is large; And

Providing unit for retrieving the notification mail or the small- or medium-sized mail from the database in response to a request from the mobile communication terminal receiving the arrival notification message associated with storing the mail in the database, and providing the received notification message to the mobile communication terminal

Large-capacity mail arrival notification system from the mail server to the mobile communication terminal comprising a.

10. The method of claim 9,

The analysis unit,

An extraction unit for analyzing the received list information and extracting size information of the mail;

A comparison unit comparing the extracted size information with predetermined size information; And

A determination unit that determines the mail as a large-capacity mail when the extracted size information is greater than or equal to the selected size information as a result of the comparison;

The method of claim 10,

The determination unit,

And a result of the comparison, when the extracted size information is smaller than the selected size information, the mail is determined as a mail having a small and medium capacity.

10. The method of claim 9,

The analysis unit,

Analyze the received list information, extract the ID information of the mail,

The generation unit,

The mass mail arrival notification system from the mail server to the mobile communication terminal, characterized in that for generating the notification mail using the extracted ID information.

10. The method of claim 9,

The mobile communication terminal,

A mail list is prepared by providing a code for distinguishing the small- and medium-sized mail from the notification mail to create a mail list, and exposing the created mail list on a screen. Notification system.

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