KR20020096509A - Method of managing transferring e-mail among people - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for managing a multipoint E-mail transmission is provided to realize a simple conference, circulation, and opinion collecting, cancel or modify the E-mail, check E-mail receipt exactly, and prevent contents of an E-mail from being publicized in the case that an E-mail address of a receiver is written wrong. CONSTITUTION: A user connects to a mail server and performs a log-in process by inputting one's ID and password(S201). The user prepares E-mail by selecting a letter writing menu(S202). An advertisement or a coupon is allocated on a background of a main text(S203). At this time, the user receives a partial portion of advertising costs being paid to a mail server operator by an advertiser(S204). A transmitter prepares a mail and presses a transmission button, the main server stores the mail in storage and transmits only a preface to all receivers(S205). If a receiver clicks a link with respect to the mail text, the transmitter is connected to a mail server and the mail text corresponded to an inherent number of the mail is displayed on a screen(S206). The transmitter modifies the text(S207). If a receiver who does not read the mail exists, the mail server transmits the preface to the receiver(S209). If all receivers read the mail, or a time limit of the mail is expired, the transmitter arranges transmitted mails and transmits the contents to all receivers(S210).

Description

{Method of managing transferring e-mail among people}

The present invention relates to a method for managing an email transmission to enable a meeting or a circulation through an email among a plurality of people.

The conventional email system has the following problems.

First, when trying to determine an appointment location or time between three or more people, conventional e-mail systems simply cannot provide simple reconciliation. Instead of an e-mail system, a three-way or conference call, a chat via the Internet, a video conference, or the like can be used. However, both of these methods have difficulty in ensuring time concurrency. In addition, it is possible to use a bulletin board, but it is very practical to open a dedicated bulletin board whenever a problem occurs, and it is very unrealistic for each member to read the bulletin board in good faith.

Second, it is difficult to cancel or correct the content after sending the mail.

Third, it is not clear whether the mail has been received.

Fourth, if the recipient's e-mail address is incorrectly disclosed, the contents of the e-mail cannot be avoided.

Fifth, since all the contents of the mail are sent when the mail is transmitted, it is vulnerable to security and may be abused as a spam mail for the purpose of forcibly sending it to an unspecified majority to be read.

Sixth, in the case of sending mail to a plurality of recipients, in the conventional email system, mail is copied and sent to each mail server by the number of recipients. This wastes storage space and transmission time.

Seventh, there is a problem that the mail storage space of the recipient is limited to prevent receiving more than a certain amount of emails. This is because the storage space of the mail server is immediately saturated as the received mail is stored.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object thereof is to provide an e-mail system that enables simple meetings, circulations, and opinion gathering by overcoming time and space limitations.

In addition, the present invention is to provide an email system that can be canceled or corrected after sending the e-mail, accurate confirmation of receipt of the e-mail, and avoiding the disclosure of the e-mail contents even if the e-mail address of the recipient is incorrectly entered. The purpose.

In addition, the present invention can provide a certain benefit to the mail sender using the advertisement or coupon in the mail, can prevent spam mail, save the storage space of the mail server, and can also deliver a large file attached The aim is to provide an email system.

1 is a system configuration diagram according to the present invention.

2 is a flow chart showing the operating principle of the present invention.

3 is an example of a screen for creating an email;

4 is an example of a recipient's received mail list.

5 is an example of a screen in which a recipient reads a mail body.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

100: mail server 200: client computer

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a method for managing an email transmission between a plurality of persons in order to enable a meeting via a plurality of emails, the message body including the message body, email addresses of recipients, and headers from the email sender's computer. Receiving and storing an email, and sending a mail containing the header to the recipient's email address, wherein the header includes a link to the text so that the recipient can view the text. And, if any one of the recipients adds a comment to the body, sending, by email, a header having a link to the body and the comment to an email address of the sender and recipients; If you edit the body, you have a link to the And a header comprising the steps of transmitting by an email to the email address of the recipient.

The person who composes an e-mail can place an advertisement or a coupon in or around the e-mail body, and the e-mail recipient sees an advertisement when downloading the e-mail body, or downloads and uses a coupon. At this time, a part of the advertising fee can be provided to the mail sender in the form of cyber money.

If the sender has set the recipient's mobile number when composing the email, the SMS (Short Message System) can be used to notify the recipient of the mail, and in particular, if the password has been set for security, SMS (Short The Message System can be used to notify the recipient of the e-mail and the password. In this case, the mail recipient can enter the password to view the mail body.

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

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

As shown in Fig. 1, the email system according to the present invention includes a plurality of mail servers 1001 to 100n and a plurality of client computers 2001 to 200n, and these mail servers and client computers are connected to the Internet. . Although the e-mail server is illustrated as one server in FIG. 1, the e-mail server may be separately configured as a web server for providing a web environment and an e-mail server for processing transmission and reception of e-mails.

The person who wants to send the mail uses the client computer to connect to the mail server that has the account, and then enter the email address, message body, header, and attachment of the recipient of the mail. And send the mail by pressing the "Send" button. The mail server stores the contents of the mail in a storage space and transmits only a header including a link to the mail body to the recipient's mail server. The recipient can receive the header mail through the mail server having his account, and can access the sender's mail server where the mail body is stored and view the mail body. Recipients can add their comments as comments by adding them to the body of the message. Whenever a new comment is added, the mail server sends a message containing the header to the sender and the other recipients receive the email and the mail server You can check back in to see new comments.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing how the mail server shown in FIG. 1 manages the transmission of an email.

A person who wants to send a mail accesses a mail server having an account through a client computer and logs in by inputting an ID and password (S201). Thereafter, the user writes an e-mail by selecting a letter writing menu (S202).

An example of a screen for creating an e-mail is shown in FIG. As shown in Fig. 3, the e-mail includes the sender's information 301, the subject 302, the header 303, the recipient's information 304, the mail body 305, the attachment 306, and the expiration date 307. ), And so on. It is also possible to enter a mobile phone number as the recipient's information. In this case, the mail server can notify the recipient's mobile phone in real time by using the SMS (Short Message System). If you set a password for, you can also send text messages such as a password to the recipient's mobile phone. According to such a feature, it is possible to prevent a problem in that the contents of the mail are disclosed by incorrectly describing the recipient's email address.

Advertisements or coupons may be selected and arranged in the vicinity or the base of the mail body 305 (S203), and at this time, a part of the advertisement fee paid by the advertiser to the mail server operator may be compensated in the form of cyber money (S204). ).

When the sender completes the mail and presses the send button, the mail server keeps the mail in the storage space and transmits only the header to the entire recipient (S205). If there are recipients of the mail who do not browse the mail, the header may be set to be transmitted to the unreceived recipients at regular intervals. In this way, since the mail body is kept only in the mail server to which the sender belongs and only the header is sent to the recipient, unlike the prior art, in which the mail is copied by the number of recipients and kept in the recipient's mail server, the mail storage space is saved and mail transmission time There is an advantage to shorten. In addition, since only the header is transmitted, it is possible to structurally prevent spam mail for the purpose of being sent to and read by an unspecified majority.

4 shows an example of a mail list received when a recipient receives a mail. In FIG. 4, a mail subject and a header are combined and displayed in a single column. For example, when a mouse cursor is placed on a subject, the contents of the header can be designed to appear on the screen like a balloon. In addition, headers and mail subjects can be displayed separately. In this case, there is no need to design a mail system separately, and it can be used interchangeably with an existing mail system.

The header includes link information for the mail body, for example, a URL of the mail server and a unique number of the mail so that the mail body can be viewed.

When the mail recipient clicks on a link to the mail body in the header, the mail receiver is connected to the sender's mail server, and the mail body corresponding to the unique number of the mail is displayed on the screen (S206). An example of such a screen is shown in FIG.

As shown in Fig. 5, the screen includes a sender 501, a subject 502, a header 503, a mail body 504, a comment area 505, an attachment 506, and a reader check area 507. ), Advertising / coupon area 508.

The recipient can see the advertisement in the advertisement / coupon area 508 of the screen, and can download it if there is a coupon. The reader check area 507 indicates an acknowledgment. In the present invention, unlike the prior art, the acknowledgment is correct because the e-mail is accessed by accessing the receiver's sender's server.

The comment area 505 is an area where the recipient reads the message body and then adds a comment about it. The recipient can click the add icon to add content to an additional area of the message body, and the content he added It may be modified (S208). The added post may have a form in which the post continues to be added after the message written by the sender, as shown in FIG. 5, but the number of recipients can be assigned to the window, and the recipient can add or modify his own post in his window. It can also be implemented. In this case, since small windows as many as the number of people float on the screen for reading mail, there is an advantage that you can feel the presence of a meeting.

The mail body 305 is where a message written by the mail sender is displayed, and the mail sender can modify this content (S207). In the past, it was difficult to cancel a transmission or correct the contents of a mail after sending a mail. In particular, when a mail sender and receiver used different mail servers, cancellation and correction after sending a mail were impossible. However, in the present invention, since the mail sent by the sender is stored in the storage space of the mail server to which the sender belongs, it is possible to cancel the mail transmission or modify the contents before the mail recipient confirms.

In this way, when there is content correction by the sender or content addition / modification by the receiver, the mail server transmits a header including a link to the latest contents to all or the receiver (S205). In general, these headers are the same, so if the recipient checks the mail later, you can see the history of mail transmissions and receptions by only opening the most recent header. If the sender's mail server uses the same mail system, the header mail sent when modifying / adding the message body may replace the existing header mail to keep it up to date. In this case, since new header mails do not accumulate and increase in the mail receiving list, mail management is easy.

On the other hand, if there are recipients who do not browse the mail among the recipients of the mail, the mail server may send a header to the unreceived at a predetermined time interval (S209).

If all the recipients have viewed the mail or the expiration date of the mail set in advance by the sender has expired, the sender can arrange the contents of the mail and send it to the entire sender and receiver (S210). The sender can organize the contents of the mail, but the mail server can do it automatically. If it is determined that the mail user does not need to organize the mail contents in the meantime, the final mail may be sent, and only the final mail may be sent when only the final conclusion is meaningful. When the mail is terminated in this manner, the mail server stores the mail for a certain period of time and then deletes or deletes the mail immediately. As a result, the storage space is relatively larger than that of the conventional e-mail system, and thus a large amount of attached files can be allowed.

According to the present invention, since the mail user only needs to access the mail server and check the mail body when the header is delivered to him, there is no inconvenience in that he or she must connect from time to time to check whether new contents are posted like a normal bulletin board. Therefore, it is very convenient to arrange opinions between three or more people when determining an appointment location or an appointment time. Furthermore, e-mail allows time and space limitations to be overcome and simple meetings, circulars, and comments.

In addition, it is possible to cancel or correct the content after sending the e-mail, to confirm whether the e-mail is correctly received, and to prevent the e-mail contents from being disclosed even if the e-mail address of the recipient is incorrectly written.

In addition, it is possible to provide a certain benefit to the sender using the advertisement or coupon in the mail, to prevent spam mail, to save the storage space of the mail server, and to deliver a large file attached have.

Claims (9)

In order to enable a meeting through a plurality of emails, a method for managing a mail transmission between a plurality of mail servers, Receiving and storing an email from the sender's computer, including the message body, the recipient's email address, and a header; Sending a mail containing the header to the email addresses of the recipients, the header including a link to the text so that the recipients can view the text; If any one of the recipients adds or modifies a comment after viewing the body, sending a header with a link to the body and the comment by email to the email addresses of the sender and recipients; And when the sender modifies the body, sending a header having an link to the modified body by email to the email addresses of the recipients. The method of claim 1, wherein the message body comprises an advertisement or a coupon. 3. The method of claim 2, wherein the sender is provided with a reward such as cyber money. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the email received from the sender's computer includes the recipient's mobile number, attachment, mail start time, mail validity period, or password for security of the mail. The method of claim 4, wherein when the e-mail received from the sender's computer includes the recipient's mobile phone number, an email is notified to the recipient's mobile phone by using a short message system (SMS). [5] The method of claim 4, wherein when the e-mail received from the sender's computer includes the recipient's mobile number and password, SMS and a password are notified to the recipient's mobile phone using SMS (Short Message System). How to manage your email. 5. The method of claim 4, further comprising: if the email received from the sender's computer includes a mail validity period, sending the final mail to email addresses of the sender and recipients after the mail validity period has elapsed. How to manage your email. The method of claim 7, wherein the final mail is newly organized or includes a most recent comment, or a text and an entire comment. The method of claim 1, wherein when the sender and the receiver belong to the same e-mail server, the header mail sent every time there is a change in the body replaces the header mail sent immediately before.