KR20010048851A - Method and system for email service using mobile phone number - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An E-mail service method and system using a mobile phone number are provided for a user to be able to send an E-mail to a receiving party if the user is aware of a mobile phone number of the receiving party by allowing the mobile phone number to be the same as an E-mail address. CONSTITUTION: A Web server(210) allows a user to access an E-mail system(200) through an Internet network. The Web server(210) also allows the user to read or send an E-mail by using a Web mail. An E-mail server(220) allows the user to use the E-mail. The user can receive and send an E-mail by setting an E-mail program of his or her own computer so as to access the E-mail server(220) of the E-mail system(200). A mobile phone paging module(230) informs the mobile phone user of receiving of an E-mail to a mobile phone of the user when the E-mail is received. The mobile phone paging module(230) may have a general wired phone interface or a mobile phone interface directly connected to a mobile phone network. An E-mail account is made for the mobile phone user with the mobile phone number, and an E-mail message for each account is stored in the E-mail database(250). Thus, since the E-mail account is made for every mobile phone user, once a caller is aware of a mobile phone number of someone, he or she can send an E-mail to that person.

Description

E-mail service method using mobile phone number and system thereof {Method and system for email service using mobile phone number}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an e-mail service method and system using a mobile phone number, and more particularly, to an e-mail service method and system for enabling an e-mail simply by using a mobile phone number as an e-mail address.

With the development of the Internet, the use of e-mail is becoming more common. In addition, many companies have recently created e-mail accounts for free, and it is common to have two or more e-mail accounts.

By the way, the e-mail address is not generated by any law, but can be arbitrarily set by the user when creating an e-mail account. And, the same e-mail address cannot exist, so if someone else is already using the address you want on a mail server, you have to choose a different one.

Therefore, even if you know the URL of a company, you don't know which e-mail address is being used by someone at that company. For example, even though you know that Hong Gil Dong works for a company with the URL www.yaaho.com, a person named Hong Gil Dong must have an email address of kildong@yaaho.com or hongkildong@yaaho.com. There is no law.

Therefore, it would be very convenient if there was an easy way to know a person's e-mail address.

In addition, the e-mail address is often changed due to change of employment, change of Internet Service Provider (ISP), or the like. For example, suppose Hong Gil-dong was using the e-mail address kildong@yaaho.com while working for a company with the URL www.yaaho.com. If Hong Kil-Dong quit the company and moved to a company with the URL www.assa.co.kr, Hong Kil-Dong's e-mail address kildong@yaaho.com would no longer exist. Therefore, even if you send an e-mail address to kildong@yaaho.com will not be delivered to Hong Gil-dong.

Therefore, it would be very convenient to have an e-mail address system that does not change even if the e-mail address changes due to turnover, change of ISP, or the like.

In recent years, many Internet companies have provided services to create e-mail accounts for free. However, such a service is possible only when the user accesses the corresponding web page, registers as a member, and creates his own account. Therefore, it is difficult to secure a large number of members from a service company's point of view, and it is inconvenient because a user must go through a registration procedure.

Therefore, it would be very convenient to have an e-mail system that can be assigned an e-mail account without the registration procedure.

On the other hand, the spread of the mobile phone can be compared to the spread of the Internet. Many people have cell phones, and with the development of personal mobile communication technology, there is a prospect that almost all adults will have cell phones in the near future.

However, conventionally, even if you want to send an e-mail to a person who knows a mobile phone number, there is an inconvenience that you cannot send an e-mail without knowing the e-mail address of the person. Therefore, if you know your mobile phone number, it would be very convenient if you had an e-mail system that could know your e-mail address.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of this point, and an object of the present invention is to provide an e-mail service method and a system in which an e-mail address of a person can be known if the cell phone number of the other party is known.

It is another object of the present invention to provide an e-mail service method and a system in which an e-mail account is automatically given by a mobile phone number so that anyone who uses the mobile phone can use the e-mail.

The present invention also provides an e-mail service method for assigning an e-mail account regardless of whether the user is registered, and notifying that the e-mail has arrived at the mobile phone number of the person when the e-mail arrives to the account. It is an object to provide a system.

It is also an object of the present invention to provide an e-mail service method and a system in which an e-mail account is automatically assigned by a mobile phone number while others cannot access an e-mail of the user without permission.

1 is a schematic diagram showing a state in which an electronic mail system of the present invention is connected to an internet network and a telephone network.

2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the electronic mail system of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart showing a processing flow when an e-mail arrives in the e-mail system of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart showing a procedure when a user accesses and registers with the electronic mail system of the present invention.

5 is a screen example when a user accesses and registers the electronic mail system of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols for the main components of the drawings

100 user computer 200 email system

210 Web Server 220 Email Server

230 Mobile Calling Module 240 User Database

250 Email Database 300 Users Mobile Phone

400 Base Station 500 Internet Network

600 telephone networks

In order to achieve this object, the present invention creates an e-mail account for all mobile numbers using the mobile number as an e-mail address. Accounts are created with or without a user, so if you know a person's mobile number, you can send them an e-mail. In addition, if a person has a mobile phone, even if he is not registered, his account is created with his mobile phone number, so he can conveniently use e-mail.

In the present invention, when the e-mail arrives, the mobile phone number can be notified that the e-mail has arrived. Therefore, even if the account is not registered separately, if someone sends an e-mail, you will be notified that the e-mail can be confirmed.

In the present invention, when an e-mail arrives to an unregistered user, in order to prevent other people from seeing the contents of the e-mail message without permission, the user can randomly generate a password and notify the user's mobile phone of the password. You must enter that password to be able to enter that email account. This prevents others from viewing your e-mail without your permission.

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

1 is a schematic diagram showing a state in which an e-mail system of the present invention is connected to an internet network and a telephone network, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the e-mail system of the present invention.

In Fig. 1, reference numeral 100 denotes a computer user, and 200 denotes an electronic mail system of the present invention. Reference numeral 300 denotes a mobile phone and 400 denotes a base station. Reference numeral 500 denotes an internet network, and 600 denotes a telephone network such as a mobile telephone network or a wired telephone network. That is, the e-mail system 200 may send data to the mobile phone 300 through the mobile phone network through a wired telephone network, or may be connected to the mobile phone 300 directly through the mobile phone network wirelessly.

2 shows the internal configuration of the electronic mail system 200 in more detail.

The web server 210 allows a user to access the electronic mail system 200 through the Internet network 500. In addition, the web server 210 may allow a user to read or send e-mail using web mail.

The e-mail server 220 allows a user to use e-mail. A user can send and receive e-mail by setting an e-mail program of his computer 100 to access the e-mail server 220 of the e-mail system 200.

The cellular phone calling module 230 is used to notify the arrival of the electronic mail from the electronic mail system 200 to the user's cellular phone 300 when the electronic mail arrives. The mobile phone call module 230 may have a general wired telephone interface, or may have a mobile telephone interface directly connected to the mobile telephone network.

It is also possible, of course, not to send a message to the cellular phone via the telephone network, but to send the message to the cellular phone via the gateway to the cellular telephone network via the internet network.

The user database 240 stores information such as personal information and password of each mobile phone user. If the mobile phone user has not registered, of course, no personal information or password for the user is left blank.

Each mobile phone user has an e-mail account created with the mobile phone number. For example, if the URL of the e-mail system 200 is " www.mobilemail.com "

〈Mobile Phone〉 @ mobilemail.com

An e-mail account called is created. For example, if a person's cell phone number is 011-123-4567, his e-mail account would be "0111234567@mobilemail.com."

Instead of such an e-mail address, it is of course possible to include "-" such as "011-123-4567@mobilemail.com" or "011-1234567@mobilemail.com". You can also use any of these addresses to let the system remove the "-" and recognize it.

Email messages for each such account are stored in an email database 250.

In this way, all mobile phone users are created with an e-mail account uniformly regardless of whether they register or not, so once they know the mobile phone number, they can send an e-mail to the person.

Next, a procedure for notifying the mobile telephone user of this fact by the electronic mail system 200 when the electronic mail arrives to the mobile telephone user will be described with reference to FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a processing flow when an e-mail arrives in the e-mail system of the present invention.

The e-mail server 220 always checks whether a mail is received (step S100). When the mail is received, the electronic mail server 220 checks whether the user who received the mail is a registered user (step S110). A registered user refers to a user when a password is set and the user already knows the password.

When the mail is received, the e-mail server 220 informs the user of this fact. However, in order to check the e-mail, it is desirable from the viewpoint of security that the user must know the password registered in the corresponding account.

However, in the case of an unregistered user, the user does not know the password, so the user must inform the password. Therefore, in the present embodiment, when an e-mail first arrives in an account, a password is automatically generated, and the e-mail can be transmitted and received only when the password is known.

Therefore, as a result of the check in step S110, if the user is not registered, a password is generated in step S130. The generated password is then notified using a short message to the user's cellular phone together with a message that the mail has arrived.

The message at this time is as follows.

"You have an e-mail. You can check your e-mail at www.mobilemail.com, your id is your mobile number and your password is 3209."

Then, the user knows that the mail has arrived, and can access the website of the electronic mail system and enter the id and password to check the mail. Therefore, it is possible to receive e-mail without registering separately.

As a result of the check in step S110, since the user already knows the password, the step of generating and transmitting the password can be omitted. Therefore, when the check result in step S110 is registered, only the message notifying the arrival of the mail needs to be transmitted to the mobile phone number (step S120).

The message at this time is as follows.

"Your e-mail has arrived."

By the way, since passwords are often forgotten, it is also possible to send a password together in case of such a case. The message at this time would be, for example:

"You have received an email to mobilemail. Your password is 2097."

In the state that is not registered in the e-mail system 200, the account is created, but the password is not created. Therefore, anyone may enter the e-mail system 200 and send a mail in the name of another person.

A method for preventing this will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5.

If the user wants to send an e-mail using the e-mail system 200 of the present invention without registration, the user first accesses the homepage of the e-mail system 200 through the Internet (10).

Then, the e-mail system 200 sends a login screen to the user's computer 100 (20). An example of a login screen is shown in FIG. 5A.

If you are a registered user, enter your mobile phone number and password to log in. However, in the case of the first unregistered user, his mobile phone number can be entered, but the password is not known. Therefore, in this case, enter only the mobile phone number and then click the OK button (30).

Instead of this method, it is also possible to provide a button of "New Registration" on the login screen, and press this button to enter a mobile number.

As such, when the unregistered user enters his mobile phone number, the e-mail system generates a password and then transmits the password to the mobile phone as a short message (50).

If a legitimate mobile phone user can know the password through the mobile phone 300 can be formally logged in again. However, when a non-mobile phone user enters another's mobile phone number and the password is not known, unauthorized use of another's account can be prevented.

On the other hand, if a password is generated by the other person enters the mobile phone number without permission, the password is transmitted to the mobile phone 300, but the user of the mobile phone does not care about this password or I can forget it. Therefore, the next time the cellular phone user accesses this homepage, the electronic mail system 200 knows that the user is a registered user. Therefore, this user cannot log in unless he or she enters a password.

For this case, a button "Automatically change password" may be provided separately, and the password may be automatically changed in the e-mail system 200. When the password is changed in this way, the electronic mail system 200 transmits the new password back to the user's mobile phone (300). The user then knows the new password and can log in using the new password.

As mentioned above, although some Example was given and demonstrated this invention, this invention is not limited to this. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that many modifications and variations can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, since the mobile phone number becomes an e-mail address, if the mobile phone number of the other party is known, the e-mail can be sent to the person.

In addition, the e-mail account is automatically given by the mobile phone number, so that anyone who uses the mobile phone can use the e-mail without registering.

In addition, an e-mail account is assigned regardless of whether the user is registered, and when the e-mail arrives to the account, the e-mail is sent to the mobile phone number of the person, thereby increasing convenience. .

In addition, while automatically assigning an e-mail account by a mobile phone number, a password is automatically generated and sent to the mobile phone number. Therefore, the other person cannot know the password. have.

Claims (6)

A web server that allows mobile phone users to access the Internet, An e-mail server having an account with the mobile number as the user's ID for each mobile number; A user database for storing personal information and passwords for each mobile number; Email database for storing sending and receiving e-mail of the account for each mobile number E-mail system using a mobile phone number comprising the. The system of claim 1, wherein the e-mail system is It is equipped with a mobile phone calling module that can send a message to the mobile phone, The system is an e-mail system using a mobile phone number, characterized in that when the e-mail arrives to any account through the mobile phone call module to send a message indicating that the e-mail has arrived to the mobile phone number. 3. The system of claim 2, wherein said e-mail system is When an e-mail arrives at an account for which no password is registered in the user database, a password is automatically generated and the generated password is accompanied by a message indicating that the e-mail has arrived at the corresponding mobile number through the mobile phone calling module. E-mail system using a mobile phone number, characterized in that for transmitting. The method of claim 2 or 3, wherein the e-mail system is When a mobile phone user whose password is not registered in the user database logs in through the web server, the mobile phone user automatically generates a password and transmits the generated password to the mobile phone number through the mobile phone call module. E-mail system using a mobile phone number characterized by. A first step of creating an e-mail account for each mobile number with the corresponding mobile number as an ID; Step 2 when an email arrives, letting you know that the email arrived on your phone E-mail service method using a mobile phone number comprising the. The method of claim 5, wherein the second step The first time an email arrives for an account, steps 2-1 to generate a password; Step 2-2 in which the generated password is notified to the mobile phone of the account together with the message that the e-mail has arrived. E-mail service method using a mobile phone number comprising the.