KR20020039784A - BBS Upgrade System and Method by E-mail - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system and method for notifying a BBS(Bulletin Board System) using an E-mail is provided to enable a user to load information on a BBS through E-mail. CONSTITUTION: In a system for connecting a web server(B) which manages a web information DB(100), a member information DB(102), a SPOOL(104), a bulletin board DB(106), and a registration bulletin material reporting DB(108) to a transmitter terminal(130) and a receiver terminal(140) through an Internet network(120) for transmitting/receiving an E-mail, the web server(B) comprises the below elements. An MTA(Message Transfer Agent,110) communicates to a UA(User Agent) which edits a message or temporarily accumulates a received message. An MDA(Mail Delivery Agent,112) possesses a bulletin board information file and transmits a message to the bulletin board DB(106). A bulletin board processing unit(114) possesses a user environment setting information file, manages the bulletin board DB(106), and transmits information to a bulletin board. A bulletin material transmission processing unit(116) manages the registration bulletin material reporting DB(108) and transmits data to the MDA(112) according to times previously fixed by a user.

Description

BBS Posting System and Method Using E-mail {BBS Upgrade System and Method by E-mail}

The present invention relates to a BBS posting system and method using e-mail, and more particularly, a user can post information on the BBS through e-mail, and information that the user wants to obtain from the information posted on the bulletin board is mailed to the user. The present invention relates to a BBS posting system and method using e-mail that can be obtained in the form of information that can be obtained without entering the bulletin board.

The Internet includes a large number of computers and computer networks interconnected through communication links.

Interconnected computers exchange information using a variety of services, such as e-mail, gopher, and the World Wide Web.

The WWW service enables a server computer system (i.e., a web server or website) to transmit visual web page information to a remote client computer system.

The remote client system can then display such a web page.

Each resource (computer or web page) of the WWW can be distinguished by a unique Uniform Resource Locator (URL) address.

To view a particular web page, the client computer system specifies the URL for that web page in a Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request.

Such a request is sent to a web server supporting the web page, which forwards the web page to a client computer system.

The client computer system accepts the web page and displays it using a browser, which is a special purpose application that performs the request and display of the web page.

A URL input unit for inputting a website provided on a browser executed on the client computer system, or an address used to display a web page, is normally inputted as http://www.acb.com/home/def.

Here, HTTP is a communication protocol that is applied to transfer hypertext documents handled on the World Wide Web to another place. If you enter a specific URL, HTTP requests a database (eg a website) on the server with the address acb.com.

The server receiving the request transmits a web page having a hierarchical directory structure of home / def to the browser of the client computer system.

Here, a plurality of web pages included in a web site is a text file used to create a homepage is produced as a Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) document.

When the user instructs the browser to display the web page, the browser requests the server computer system to deliver the HTML document defining the web page to the client computer system.

When the requested HTML document is received at the client computer system, the browser displays the web page in the manner defined by the HTML document.

On the other hand, e-mail is a system that can send and receive messages via the Internet in PC communication.

To send an e-mail, write a message in advance, connect to the Internet, select an item in the mail service, and then specify and send the other party's ID number.

Normal mail shall be sent in envelopes in the form specified for the postal address, such as the addressee and delivery conditions (express).

Similarly, in e-mail, a message is divided into envelopes and contents.

It is divided into a message transfer agent (MTA) which sends a message according to an instruction of an envelope, and a user agent (UA) which temporarily edits a received message or edits received messages in the form of envelopes and documents according to designated information.

The user processor UA functions as a user agent for transmitting, receiving, and accumulating messages on behalf of a user.

E-mail can send a message faster than a regular mail, and unlike a telephone, it can leave a message even when the recipient is away.

In addition, it is possible to transmit regardless of time, and the message can be delivered reliably.

The contents of the e-mail do not take up many bytes, and the e-mail does not need to be sent immediately, so the system sends it at the appropriate time.

This allows you to send e-mail without burdening the Internet.

The initial e-mail is sent in 7-bit code with high-order bit (8-bit) because it uses the ASCII version of the transfer method in SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) format.

Therefore, there are limitations in transmitting multimedia data such as text, pictures, sounds, and videos in various formats.

This has been difficult to satisfy various needs of Internet users, and new standards are required to send and receive multimedia data through e-mail.

The UUENCODE (Unix to Unix Encoding) format allows you to transfer non-Ascius binary files, such as executables or pictures, from an existing e-mail system to ASCII, but this is not common, and in order to use it, It is not commonly used because it requires expertise.

Currently, a new type of MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extension) method has been added to overcome the limitations of the existing e-mail.

MIME is an Internet standard that emerged according to the necessity of multimedia mail transmission. It is a format that can exchange various data such as audio or video by changing SMTP, which is based only on 7-bit ASCII data.

On the other hand, BBS (Bulletin Board System) is a system that can post a message to a number of unspecified PC communication network subscribers in PC communication, or take out the message of other subscribers freely.

Recently, PC communication is essential for computer users, and as a result, BBS providing useful information is increasing.

BBS is used as information exchange media between subscribers by genre, allowing users to select and search information and to write information to inform.

When the BBS informs the BBS of a message that the subscribers want to talk about a theme or want to know about these facts to the BBS, the BBS informs a large number of members through the BBS. Members who have provided information by sending an e-mail.

You can also freely view messages written by other members.

A method of posting a message to the BBS using the e-mail is described with reference to the accompanying drawings as follows.

1 is a flowchart of a system using a conventional e-mail.

The user 10 sends the created message in packet units to the MTA 14 constituting the web server in a state of being connected to the Internet (S10, S12).

This packet unit data is accumulated in the queue 16 by the MTA 14 (S14).

The MTA 14 retrieves and combines packet data accumulated in the queue 16 (S16).

The combined data is sent to the MDA 18 (Mail Delivery Agent) (S18).

The MDA 18 transmits the mail data to the spool 20, which is the place where the mail is primarily stored (S20).

At this time, transmission information such as transmission status and time is again sent to the MTA 14 (S22).

The user reads the mail accumulated in the spool 20 via the POP3 22 server and acquires the information (S24, S26).

In the conventional method of posting and reading articles on the BBS on the Internet, the user must visit the website frequently in order to check messages that are displayed irregularly. Moreover, when the user is interested in a plurality of BBSs, the message is viewed, or In order to post a message, there was a complicated and inconvenient problem in time and procedure to visit BBS in a number of websites equipped with BBS on the Internet and to post a message.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a BBS publishing system and method using an e-mail that can put information on a BBS through an e-mail used by an individual.

Another object of the present invention, if the user has previously set the information about the documents that he wants to obtain from the contents of the bulletin board, the information that the user wants among the information posted on the BBS automatically to the user in a certain time unit It is to provide a BBS publishing system and method using e-mail that can be obtained information about the desired document without being reported to the BBS.

The technical idea of the present invention for achieving the above object is that the sender writes a message and sends it to the web server and receives the message in the MTA of the web server,

Transmitting a message from the MTA to an MDA;

Transmitting information from the MDA to a bulletin board processor;

The bulletin board processor transmits information to a bulletin board, and registers and posts the bulletin board.

1 is a flowchart of a system using a conventional e-mail.

2 is a block diagram of a posting system according to the present invention.

3 is an overall flowchart illustrating a method for posting a message to a BBS by accessing an operator server according to the present invention.

4 is a detailed flowchart illustrating a process of posting and reporting a message in FIG. 3.

<Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

100: Web Information DB102: Member Information DB

104: spool 106: bulletin board DB

108: Registration Post Reporting DB110: MTA

112: MDA114: Bulletin board handler

116: Post sending processor 120: Internet network

130: sender terminal 140: receiver terminal

B: Web Server

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, FIGS. 2 to 4.

2 is a block diagram of a posting system according to the present invention.

3 is an overall flowchart illustrating a method for posting a message to a BBS by accessing an operator server according to the present invention.

4 is a detailed flowchart illustrating a process of posting and reporting a message in FIG. 3.

The present invention will be described in more detail, as shown in FIG. 1, a web information DB 100 for storing a bulletin board page for posting a sender's article, a message input page, and the like, IDs, passwords, and electronics of a sender and a receiver. A member information DB 102 in which an e-mail address and a name are stored, a spool 104 in which messages sent and received are stored first, a bulletin board DB 106 in a bulletin board processor 114 in which information registered in a bulletin board is stored, The web server B operates the registered post reporting DB 108 of the post-transmission processor 108 in which the information desired by the receiver is stored.

The web server (B) has an MTA (110) that communicates with the UA to edit the message or temporarily accumulate the received message according to the specified information, and holds a bulletin board information file and transmits the message to the bulletin board DB (106). MDA 112, a bulletin board processor 114 that holds a user configuration information file and transmits information to the bulletin board, and a post-transmission processor that transmits the data to the MDA 112 for each time zone set by the user in advance ( 116 is configured.

The present invention comprises a sender terminal 130 and a receiver terminal 140 for transmitting or receiving an e-mail through the web server B and the Internet network 120.

A sender who wants to send a message and post it on a bulletin board composes a message using an e-mail transmission / reception means such as a mail writing program, and then transmits the message to a web server B through the Internet network 120.

The web server B stores the message information in the spool 104 and the message stored in the spool is posted on the electronic bulletin board.

Among the information posted on the electronic bulletin board, the user recognizes and saves the desired information and delivers it to the recipient by e-mail at certain times.

As shown in FIG. 2, a step in which the sender connects to the Internet network 120 through the sender terminal 130 (S100),

Driving the mail creating program (S104);

Creating a message (S106),

Transmitting the created message to a web server (B) by inputting an e-mail address (S108);

Receiving a message from the web server (B) (S110),

Registering and posting the message in the BBS (S112);

Recognizing and selecting the information desired by the user among the messages registered in the BBS (S114),

In step S116, the information is transmitted to the receiver by mail.

In the step S104 of creating the mail writing program, the sender who is a user sends and receives e-mails such as an Outlook Express program provided by Microsoft Windows 9x in order to post a message to the BBS of the web server B. It is configured to use the mail transmitting and receiving means.

In addition, when the mail writing program is driven, it is configured to maintain an online state to be connected through the web server B and the Internet network 120.

In step S108, the created message is transmitted to the web server by inputting an e-mail address of the web server B.

In the step of registering and posting a message in the bulletin board (S112), the message stored in the bulletin board DB 106 in step S110 is configured to be registered on the bulletin board in conjunction with the web information DB 100 including the BBS bulletin board.

In the step S114 of recognizing the corresponding message in the bulletin board, the bulletin board processor 114 recognizes the information desired by the user among the messages registered in the bulletin board.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a process from the reception of the web server B to the transmission of the mail to the receiver terminal 140 in detail.

The process of receiving a message from the web server B and then posting it on a bulletin board includes a sender creating a message and sending the message to the web server B and receiving the message from the MTA 110 of the web server B. Step (S200) and

Transmitting a message from the MTA 110 to the MDA 112 (S202);

Transmitting information from the MDA 112 to the bulletin board processor 114 (S204);

The bulletin board processor 114 transmits the information to the bulletin board, registers and posts the bulletin board (S206).

In step S200, each directory of the bulletin board is previously assigned a mail account, and mail is sent to the MTA 110, which is a message transmission processor, by a mail sending command.

In step S204, the MDA 112 has a bulletin board information file in advance and recognizes that the destination of the mail is a bulletin board, so that the bulletin board DB in the bulletin board processor 114 does not transmit a message to the spool 104. 106).

In step S206, the message stored in the bulletin board DB 106 is registered in the bulletin board by the bulletin board processor 114.

The process of reporting the bulletin board registered information to the user, the step of recognizing the information desired by the user from the material posted on the bulletin board (S208),

Recognized information is sent to the post processing processor 116 and stored (S210),

The post-processing processor 116 transmits the stored data to the MDA 112 (S212),

MDA 112 delivers the data to the spool 104 (S214),

In step S216, the receiver reads the mail accumulated in the spool 104 using the POP3 server through the receiver terminal 140.

In step S208, the bulletin board processor 114 holds a user configuration information file in advance and recognizes when the information desired by the user is included in the bulletin board.

In step S210, the information recognized by the bulletin board processor 114 is transferred to the post dispatch processor 116 by the bulletin board processor 114 and stored in the registered post reporting DB 108.

That is, the bulletin board processor 114 registers the data on the bulletin board while managing the bulletin board DB 106, and also holds a user configuration information file to recognize information including a word or sentence desired by the user and sends a post processor ( 116).

In step S212, the post sending processor 116 transmits the data stored in the registration posting reporting DB 108 to the MDA 112 for each predetermined time period.

That is, the post sending processor 116 manages the registration posting reporting DB 108, and delivers the post to the user through an e-mail in a time unit set by the user.

In step S216, the user reads the mail accumulated in the spool 104 using the POP3 server to obtain information.

On the other hand, when the message written by the sender is a general mail not registered in the bulletin board, the MTA 110 combines the data and transmits it to the MDA 112 (S202), and the spool 104 in the MDA 112; In step S214, the receiver transmits the data, and the receiver reads the mail accumulated in the spool 104 using the POP3 server through the receiver terminal 140 (S216).

As described above, the present invention allows the user to put a post through the e-mail by the two processors, the bulletin board processor 114 and the post sending processor 116, and also to obtain the desired bulletin board information.

That is, the bulletin board processor 114 serves to deliver a post sent by mail to a bulletin board, and the post dispatch processor 116 serves to send the user's desired information by e-mail to the user at each time slot.

As described above, according to the present invention, the e-mail user can register a post without a separate bulletin board access, and there is an effect of confirming the post.

In addition, it is effective in acquiring and providing information in a simple and convenient way by acquiring information of BBS from one's own e-mail account, away from the conventional waste of time that must check both e-mail and BBS for information acquisition. .

In particular, when utilizing the present invention in a mobile environment with a limited user interface, there is an effect that the BBS can be used with only one e-mail transmission and reception function.

Claims (5)

The web server B, which operates the web information DB 100, the member information DB 102, the spool 104, the bulletin board DB 106, and the registered post reporting DB 108, sends and receives e-mails. In the system connected to the sender terminal 130 and the receiver terminal 140 to the Internet network 120 for the purpose of: The web server (B), An MTA 110 in communication with the UA that edits the message or temporarily accumulates the received message; MDA 112 that holds a bulletin board information file and sends a message to the bulletin board DB 106; A bulletin board processor 114 that holds a user configuration information file and manages the bulletin board DB 106 and transmits the information to the bulletin board; The BBS posting system using e-mail, characterized in that the post management processor 116 for managing the registration posting reporting DB (108) and delivers the data to the MDA (112) for a predetermined time zone in advance. In the system of claim 1, The sender accesses the Internet network 120 through the sender terminal 130 (S100), Driving the mail creating program (S104); Creating a message (S106), Transmitting the created message to a web server (B) by inputting an e-mail address (S108); Receiving a message from the web server (B) (S110), Registering and posting the message in the BBS (S112); Recognizing and selecting the information desired by the user among the messages registered in the BBS (S114), BBS posting method using an e-mail, characterized in that it comprises the step (S116) of sending the information to the recipient by mail. The method of claim 2, wherein the process from receiving a message to the bulletin board after receiving the message from the web server B includes: A sender composes a message and transmits the message to a web server B and receives a message from the MTA 110 of the web server B (S200); Transmitting a message from the MTA 110 to the MDA 112 (S202); Transmitting information from the MDA 112 to the bulletin board processor 114 (S204); The bulletin board processor (114) transfers information to a bulletin board and registers and posts the bulletin board (S206), characterized in that the BBS posting method using an e-mail. The process of claim 2, wherein the bulletin board registered information is reported to the user, Recognizing information desired by the user among the materials posted on the bulletin board (S208), Recognized information is sent to the post processing processor 116 and stored (S210), The post-processing processor 116 transmits the stored data to the MDA 112 (S212), MDA 112 delivers the data to the spool 104 (S214), Recipient BBS posting method using the e-mail, characterized in that the step (S216) of reading the mail accumulated in the spool 104 using the POP3 server through the receiver terminal (140). The method according to claim 2, wherein when the message written by the sender is a general mail not registered on the bulletin board, In step S202, the MTA 110 combines the data and delivers the combined data to the MDA 112. Transmitting data from the MDA 112 to the spool 104 (S214); Recipient BBS posting method using the e-mail, characterized in that the step (S216) of reading the mail accumulated in the spool 104 using the POP3 server through the receiver terminal (140).