KR20000073172A - Apparatus and Method for printing E-mail after receiving - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A device for receiving and outputting an electronic mail is provided to print electronic mail transmitted to a user without driving a user agent(UA) program by the user. CONSTITUTION: A receiver(395) receives an electronic mail corresponding to a pre-set client by a user from a mail server receiving the electronic mail transmitted through a communicating network. A setup unit(392) sets up determined information for receiving and outputting the electronic mail only transmitted to the client among electronic mail received to the mail server. A database(393) stores the determined information for receiving and outputting the electronic mail. A controller(391) stores the determined information to the database to decide client operating states, and outputs the electronic mail received from the receiver to a network facsimile printer to control a print operation of the printer. The controller detects the electronic mail corresponding to the client.

Description

Apparatus and Method for printing E-mail after receiving

The present invention relates to the reception and output of data, and more particularly, an apparatus for receiving and outputting an e-mail transmitted to a client stored in an e-mail server connected to a local area network (LAN). And to a method.

First, the terms mentioned in the present specification will be briefly described as follows.

Local area network (LAN) refers to a communication network within a limited area (area). For example, a company can input various types of information into a computer, establish computers and networks installed in each department, and communicate with each other. Speak one network to help you take it.

In a LAN environment, computers are already connected to each other, and various data are exchanged through terminals installed in each building. University research institutes can input data such as various data reports into a computer and search the data through personal computers or terminals distributed in various buildings on the premises.

An information and communication network that connects multiple personal computers or terminals around a large computer and shares data is called a local area network (LAN).

More specifically, it is a small high-information communication network that connects computers and communication devices in limited areas such as offices, factories, buildings, etc., so that comprehensive information such as voice, data, and video can be transmitted at a speed of 1Mbps or higher.

Recently, with the development of computer and communication technology, LAN products that accommodate a large area come out and express the "information communication network" itself by LAN in a broad sense. Compared to the conventional communication system connected to a telephone and relaying only a simple voice call, the emergence of a LAN that enables the exchange of voice, text, and image information using a computer has been called "innovation of information and communication networks."

LAN began to be put into practical use in the 80's, and thanks to the development of optical technology, LAN has recently developed rapidly enough to become a generalized fiber distributed digital interface (FDDI) optical LAN and plays a central role in the fields of FA and OA.

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a simple e-mail transfer protocol used for e-mail (e-mail) transfer and exchange between computers. SMTP is a communication protocol used by an e-mail exchange server that defines how two computers interconnect and controls the commands used to send e-mail, as defined in RFC 821.

Post Office Protocol (POP) is a post office protocol designed to read e-mail from a server even on a single-user host. Products published by the protocol include POP, POP2, and POP3, and the parent product is a subordinate product. There is a problem that does not provide compatibility for.

A domain is a name used to distinguish host names of the same class. In a database, this refers to the set of values that a field in one file can take.

On the Internet, domain names alone provide some insight into the nature of hosts. Important domains used on the Internet include web (website-related company), org (organization), nom (personal name), and net (network management agency).

E-mail is a system that can send and receive messages through a network in computer communication, and is one of the basic services in a commercial computer communication network.

If you want to send an e-mail, write a message in advance, access the network, select an item in the mail service, and send the specified ID.

In general, mail is divided into envelopes and parts of a document by sending a document in an envelope and sending instructions on the envelope in a prescribed form. It is divided into a message transmission function for sending a message and a user agent (UA: user agent) that edits a message in the form of an envelope and a document or temporarily accumulates the delivered message according to designated information. The UA function is a message for a user. It acts as a user agent to send, distribute, and accumulate data.

E-mail can send messages faster than regular mail or phone calls and leave messages even when the recipient is absent. In addition, there is a feature that the message can be delivered reliably regardless of the transmission time.

On the other hand, when the email is transmitted from the outside to the destination email address, the SMTP server of the network of the domain indicated in the email address receives the email.

The SMTP server checks whether there is a host of a destination address on the network through a Domain Name Service (DNS), receives an e-mail, and stores the received e-mail in an e-mail server.

The stored e-mail is obtained by using the POP function after the host of the destination address accesses the e-mail server using the UA (User Agent) to check the contents of the received e-mail. Print through the connected printer.

In other words, the host cannot check whether the e-mail is sent to him or her before using the user agent (UA), and a separate printer must be connected to output the e-mail. .

Accordingly, the present invention was devised to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to transmit a fax transmitted to a client set by a user among e-mails stored in an e-mail server connected to a local area network. An apparatus and method for receiving and outputting mail only are provided.

1 is a conceptual diagram showing a concept of transmitting and receiving e-mail generally on the Internet,

2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an e-mail transmission / reception system including a local area network facsimile for receiving and outputting e-mail according to the present invention;

3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a local area network facsimile for receiving and outputting e-mail according to the present invention;

4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an email device for receiving and outputting email according to the present invention;

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of receiving and outputting an e-mail according to the present invention.

<Description of Symbols of Major Parts of Drawings>

100: e-mail server 200: client

300: Internet Fax 400: Printer Server

500: Printer 600: Ethernet

700: G3 fax

310: central processing unit 320: network unit

330: modem 340: printing unit

350: memory 360: reading

370: operation panel 380: sensor

390: email device

In a network facsimile capable of transmitting / receiving e-mail connected to a communication network of the present invention for achieving the above objects, and a network fax capable of transmitting / receiving general fax data, an apparatus for receiving and outputting e-mail is transmitted through the communication network. Receiving unit for receiving only the e-mail corresponding to the client preset by the user from the mail server receiving the e-mail; A setting unit for setting predetermined information for receiving and outputting only the e-mail transmitted to a predetermined client among the e-mails received by the mail server; A database unit storing the predetermined information set in the setting unit for receiving and outputting the email; And storing the predetermined information set by the setting unit in the database unit, determining an operation state of the client, outputting the e-mail received by the receiving unit to a printing unit of the network facsimile, and And a control unit which controls a print job and detects an e-mail corresponding to the preset client from among the e-mails received from the receiving unit.

Optionally, the display unit further comprises a display form converting unit for converting the list of emails received by the receiving unit or the predetermined information set by the setting unit into a predetermined display form.

Advantageously, said predetermined information comprises an Internet Protocol (IP) address for identifying said client in said communications network.

A method of using a network facsimile for transmitting / receiving e-mail and a general facsimile data transmission / reception, connected to a communication network of the present invention for achieving the above objects, the method for receiving and outputting e-mail includes: Determining a type of a mode for transmitting / receiving the email by using; If the determined mode is a reception mode for receiving the email, receiving the email sent to the client with information about the client on the same subnetwork as the network fax; Determining whether the email has been received from among the clients using predetermined information for identifying the client, and then determining; And transmitting the email to the client when the email is transmitted to the client as a result of the determination.

Optionally, the method further comprises outputting the email to a printing unit of the network fax.

Preferably, the predetermined information includes an Internet Protocol (IP) address for identifying the client in the communication network.

Hereinafter, the objects, features, and advantages of the present invention described above will be described in more detail with reference to the preferred embodiments of the present invention shown in the accompanying drawings.

3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a local area network facsimile for receiving and outputting e-mail according to the present invention.

First, the central processing unit 310 controls the operation of the system according to a predetermined program recorded in the memory 350.

The memory 350 stores program data, protocol data, and text data.

The operation panel 370 has a plurality of keys capable of generating key data of the system, and when the key data is generated, the control panel 370 inputs them to the central processing unit 310 and displays the display data of the central processing unit 310. (LCD).

The reading unit 360 scans an image of an original and provides it to the CPU 310 as digital image data.

The modem 330 performs analog modulation on the output data of the central processing unit 310 and demodulates and outputs the analog reception input.

The network unit 320 is operated under the control of the central processing unit 310 to form a call loop with a local area network (LAN) and to interface signals between the modem 330 and the telephone line.

The printing unit 340 prints the received data by the control signal from the central processing unit 310.

The sensor unit 380 detects a remaining amount of recording paper or detects an original and provides it to the central processing unit 310.

According to the present invention, the e-mail device 390 stores information on a client selected by a user from among clients connected to a communication network, and the user among e-mails received and stored in a mail server through a communication network from the outside. Only the e-mails sent to the configured client are printed.

4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an electronic mail apparatus for receiving and outputting electronic mail according to the present invention.

The receiving unit 395 receives only an e-mail corresponding to a client preset by a user from a mail server that receives an e-mail transmitted through a communication network.

The setting unit 392 sets an IP address of the client so as to receive and output only an email sent to a client which is previously set among the emails received by the mail server.

The database unit 393 stores the IP address of the client set in the setting unit 392 to receive and output the email.

The control unit 391 stores the IP address of the client set by the setting unit 392 in the database unit 393, determines an operation state of the client, and stores the e-mail received by the receiving unit 395 in the network. Print with the facsimile's print section.

Hereinafter, an operation of an apparatus for receiving and outputting an email of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5.

In the present invention, as shown in FIG. 2, the Internet fax 300 may be connected to a LAN or may be connected to a PSTN network.

First, it is determined whether the Internet fax 300 will perform a G3 fax transmission / reception function through a PSTN network, which is a general facsimile, or transmit / receive an e-mail as an e-mail server on a LAN (step S100).

In this case, the determination may be performed by the CPU 310 determining which of the function keys included in the operation panel 370 of the Internet fax 300 is selected.

As a result of the determination, if it is set to perform the G3 function, a general G3 fax transmission / reception function is performed through the PSTN network (step S110).

As a result of the determination, when performing the function of transmitting / receiving an e-mail as the e-mail server on the LAN, it is determined whether the current mode to be used is a mode for transmitting or receiving e-mail (step: S200) .

As a result of the determination, in the mode of transmitting the e-mail, it is connected to the LAN and generally performs an operation for transmitting the e-mail (step S210).

As a result of the determination, in the mode of receiving the e-mail, the electronic device operates in a direct mode capable of directly receiving the e-mail on the LAN to perform the receiving operation of the e-mail (step: S400). E-mail transmission is the same as the direct mode, but reception is a server mode that can receive e-mail sent to each client with information about all clients on the same subnetwork as the Internet fax 300 (SERVER MODE). ) To perform the transmission / reception operation of the email (step: S500).

Herein, the direct mode will be described in detail as follows.

In the direct mode, first confirm the IP address of the Internet fax 300 (step: S410).

At this time, the result of confirming the IP address is displayed on the display form converting unit 394. After the checking, the receiving unit 395 receives the data transmitted through the LAN network (step S420), and the control unit 391 After decoding (step: S430), it is output by the printing unit 340 (step: S440).

Meanwhile, the server mode will be described in detail as follows.

First, the default mode (DEFULT MODE) for accessing the email server 100 with the information of all the clients connected on the LAN to receive the email sent to the email addresses of all the clients, and the present invention. Accordingly, there is a SELECT MODE that brings only received emails to email addresses for the client selected by the user.

In the default mode, all of the clients sequentially access the email server 100 (step S530) to determine whether there is an e-mail transmitted to each client (step S560). If there is a mail, the e-mail is received (step: S570), decoded (step: S580), and output (step: S590).

On the other hand, in the selection mode according to the present invention, if there is an e-mail transmitted to the set client by attempting to connect to the e-mail server 100 only for the client set by the setting unit 392, the default mode and Receive and output in the same manner (steps S560, S570, S580, S590).

Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention may be modified without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims. It will be appreciated that modifications or variations may be made. Therefore, changes in the future embodiments of the present invention will not be able to escape the technology of the present invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, there is an advantage that the user can directly print the e-mail sent to the user even without running the computer or the UA (User Agent) program.

Claims (6)

In the network facsimile function which is connected to the communication network and sends / receives an e-mail and the general fax data can be sent and received, A receiving unit for receiving an e-mail corresponding to a client preset by a user from a mail server receiving the e-mail transmitted through the communication network; A setting unit for setting predetermined information for receiving and outputting only the e-mail transmitted to a predetermined client among the e-mails received by the mail server; A database unit storing the predetermined information set in the setting unit for receiving and outputting the email; And The predetermined information set by the setting unit is stored in the database unit, the operation state of the client is determined, the e-mail received by the receiving unit is output to the printing unit of the network fax, and the printing unit is printed. And a control unit which controls a job and detects an e-mail corresponding to the preset client from among the e-mails received by the receiving unit. The method of claim 1, And a display form converting unit for converting the list of the e-mails received by the receiving unit or the predetermined information set by the setting unit into a predetermined display form. The method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined information is And an Internet Protocol (IP) address for identifying said client on said communications network. In the method of using a network facsimile for sending / receiving e-mails connected to a communication network and sending / receiving general fax data, Determining a type of a mode for transmitting / receiving the e-mail using the communication network; If the determined mode is a reception mode for receiving the email, receiving the email sent to the client with information about the client on the same subnetwork as the network fax; Determining whether the email has been received from among the clients using predetermined information for identifying the client, and then determining; And And transmitting the email to the client when there is the email transmitted to the client as a result of the determination. The method of claim 4, wherein And outputting the e-mail at the printing unit of the network facsimile. The method of claim 4, wherein the predetermined information is And an Internet Protocol (IP) address for identifying the client in the communication network.