KR20030030270A - management service system for changing of E-mail account and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An e-mail account change service management system and a method for the same are provided to automatically notify an e-mail sender when an existing e-mail account is changed to a new account when the e-mail account of a receiver is changed, and to forward the e-mail to a changed e-mail account. CONSTITUTION: The system comprises a server(100) and a customer information database(200). The server(100) receives an e-mail account change management service request from a customer, checks an existing and a changed e-mail account based on a request specification, notifies an e-mail sender that the existing e-mail account is changed to the new one, and automatically forwards the e-mail to the new e-mail account. The customer information database(200) stores data on the e-mail account, and changed specifications for each customer.

Description

A service system for managing change of an email account and its operation method {management service system for changing of E-mail account and method

The present invention relates to a service method online, and in particular, when a specific customer wants to change his or her primary mail account, even if the customer does not directly visit each site to which he subscribes, and does not change the email account, the automatic change is made. It relates to a service method to make this possible.

At present, due to the rapid development of the Internet, a lot of information can be obtained freely online.

In particular, the e-mail service among various online services has enabled communication and information exchange among a large number of customers.

In this case, the e-mail service is a service provided by a predetermined website that usually provides a service on the web. The e-mail service is mainly provided free of charge, thereby maximizing the effect of advertisement by inducing visits of web pages by many customers.

Although the existing e-mail service is gradually increasing its usage, the allowable capacity is extremely limited, and the customer wants an e-mail service with more usage capacity. Changes to your primary mail account are increasing.

In particular, the change of the e-mail account due to the termination of the existing e-mail service, the change of the main e-mail account due to the retirement of the company, and the change of the main e-mail account for applying for the e-mail service that provides more capacity, etc. This is happening frequently.

However, if the email account used mainly by a specific customer is changed as described above, the company or customer may not receive the mail until the company or customer who has requested to send various information to the account is notified. There was a problem that can not.

In the past, the above-mentioned problem was solved by forwarding various mails received through the existing email account to the newly designated email account using the forwarding function, but the existing email account had to be maintained as it is.

In this case, the original of each e-mail sent to the old e-mail account remains in the old e-mail account, and the same content is delivered to the new e-mail account that has forwarded to the old e-mail account. There is an inconvenience that management had to carry out continuously.

In other words, when all the capacity allocated to an existing email account is consumed, there is a problem in that the email must not be received because no more email is received. There was an inconvenience that had to delete the mail continuously.

The present invention has been made to solve the conventional problems as described above, if there is a change to a specific customer's primary use (E-mail) account of the company that sent each mail received in the existing e-mail account or It is an object of the present invention to provide an e-mail service method that enables other customers to be automatically notified that the customer's primary e-mail account has been changed, so that future mails can be sent to the changed e-mail account.

1 is a schematic diagram showing a system for an email service according to the present invention;

2 is a flowchart schematically illustrating an operation process according to an embodiment of a system for an email service according to the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart schematically illustrating an operation process for revocation of an existing main e-mail account among the processes of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart schematically illustrating an operation process for notifying of a change of a primary e-mail account using an address book file stored in a customer's PC during each process of FIG. 2; FIG.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart schematically illustrating an operation process according to whether reception is rejected among the processes of FIG. 2.

Figure 6 is a schematic diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention an email service system

7 is a flowchart schematically showing an operation process according to another embodiment of the present invention, an email service system.

8 is a flow chart schematically showing another embodiment of the operation process of FIG.

Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

100, 300. Service server 200, 400. Customer information DB

One embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object is to receive a service for managing the change of the online (E-mail) account from each customer, based on the received details of the customer's existing e-mail account and the e-mail account to change A service server for confirming, and notifying the fact that the email of the corresponding customer is changed to each email account of the other designated customers received through the existing email account; The present invention provides a service system for change management of an e-mail account, wherein the e-mail account for each customer and its change history are registered and stored.

And receiving a service request according to the change of the primary use email account from each customer as a method of operating the service system for managing the change of the email account of the present invention according to the above aspect; Requesting a specific customer to enter an email account to be changed when the main use email account is requested to be changed; Retrieving an email account of the sender who sent the mail by searching each mail history received by the customer's existing primary use email account; Notifying each of the identified e-mail accounts of the changed primary use e-mail account of the corresponding customer: includes a method of proceeding.

Further, another aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object is to continuously receive a request to provide an email account to each customer, and to register the provided email account as a primary use email account. A service server which receives each mail received through the existing main e-mail account of the corresponding customer and notifies the change of the main e-mail account to each e-mail account to which the mail is sent; The present invention provides a service system for change management of an e-mail account, wherein the e-mail account for each customer and its change history are registered and stored.

And, receiving a service request according to the change of the primary use email account from each customer as a method of operating the service system for the change management of the email account of the present invention according to the other aspect; Requesting a specific customer to enter an email account to be changed when the main use email account is requested to be changed; Applying for a mail forwarding service by accessing a web site that provides an existing main use email account of the customer requesting the service; Checking the sender e-mail account of each mail received through the applied mail forwarding service and notifying the customer of the e-mail change of the corresponding e-mail to the confirmed sender e-mail account.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 8 showing an embodiment of a system for an email service and a service method using the system with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Firstly, Fig. 1 attached schematically shows a system for the e-mail service of the present invention.

That is, the system for the e-mail service of the present invention is a service server 100 that is largely configured to provide the above-mentioned e-mail service on-line, and customer information in which the information of each customer and the information for each customer's e-mail account is stored respectively It is built including a DB (200).

At this time, the service server 100 receives a service for managing an e-mail account change online from each customer, and checks the existing e-mail account and the e-mail account of the customer based on the received details. In addition, each email account of the designated other customers received through the existing email account serves to notify the change of the email of the corresponding customer.

The service server 100 generally provides a mail account to each customer online, and operates a website operated by an email service provider for managing various mails received or sent through the mail account. It may be a server, or may be a server operated in a separate state from the website providing the above service, the present invention suggests that the operating server of the website operated by the electronic email service provider .

In addition, the customer information DB registers and stores the email account for each customer and its change history.

Hereinafter, an embodiment according to the email service method using the configuration of the present invention as described above will be described in more detail with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 2 to 5.

First, the service server 100 continuously receives a service request according to the change of the primary use email account from each customer.

At this time, it is preferable that each customer is in a state where a service is registered to receive a service on a website operated by the service server 100. In this process, the service server 100 is a main user email account for each customer. Receives information about and registers in the customer information DB (200). Of course, the above process may be performed when each customer requests a service for changing the primary e-mail account.

In the above state, when the service server 100 receives a change request for the main use e-mail account from a specific customer on the website for providing the service, the service server 100 first changes the existing main use e-mail account from the customer and changes the main use. You are asked to enter each email account. If information about the existing main use e-mail account is already registered in the customer information DB 200, it is natural to input only the main use e-mail account to be changed.

In addition, in the above process, the service server 100 of the present invention needs to be authenticated so as to search for the existing main use e-mail account of the customer, and if necessary, obtain login information for searching for the existing main use e-mail account. It is preferable to carry out.

When the input of each of the above e-mail accounts is completed, the service server 100 accesses the existing main user e-mail account of the customer and retrieves the details of each e-mail received through the account.

At this time, the search content is an email account of the sender who sent each mail, and if the place where the mail is sent is a company, it may be a webmaster of the company or an email account of a mail manager.

Thereafter, the service server 100 notifies each of the identified e-mail accounts that the main user e-mail account of the customer has been changed and the changed e-mail account.

In addition, when the service server considers that there may be other customers or companies that have not notified the change of the main user's e-mail account of the customer as shown in the flowchart of FIG. If the user wants to cancel his / her primary use email account, it is suggested that only a mail can be received from the existing primary use email account for a predetermined period of time, and that the incoming mail is continuously checked during this period.

This is because the frequency of receiving e-mails is not constant, so if you cancel the existing main e-mail account immediately after applying for the service, the mail received from the existing main e-mail account after that day is checked and sent to the place where the e-mail was sent. Since a primary email account cannot notify you of changes, it is preferable to allow at least one week or one month to terminate the existing primary email account.

In addition, the subject of notifying the change of the primary customer email account of the specific customer as described above is not necessarily limited to the mail received by the existing primary user email account.

In other words, it is more preferable to notify other customers in the address book stored in the customer's PC about the change of the e-mail account of the customer who applied for the service of the main use e-mail account.

To this end, in the present invention, as shown in the flowchart of FIG. 4, when a service server requests a change of the main use email account from a specific customer, an address book file (for example, a * .wab file or a * .vcard file) stored in the PC of the corresponding customer is shown. ), And further confirm that each customer's email account recorded in this searched address book file is notified to each identified customer's email account that the customer's primary use email account has been changed.

The address book file stored in the customer's PC can be obtained directly as the service server 100 is directly connected to the PC (for example, using an FTP service), but this is a problem due to the leakage of personal information. Considering that there is a suggestion that the customer acquires by sending directly to the service server (100).

In addition, in the present invention, when the main e-mail account is changed as shown in the flowchart of FIG. 5, when the corresponding customer does not want to receive the e-mail from a specific e-mail account (in particular, the place where the e-mail is sent is used for the existing main e-mail). (E.g., a website that provides an email account, or a website of a company that sends other advertisements), allowing the customer to choose which email accounts they want to receive as their primary email account. Present additionally.

This means that the other customer sent the mail received by the customer's existing primary email account, or where the user sent the message during the verification of the business's email account, the customer's friends, relatives, business partners and other applicable customers. The client checks whether the desired mail is received or not, and extracts only the mail account separately so that only the mail that the customer wants to receive is received. This can be done by notifying the customer of a change in their primary use email.

The process of confirming whether each mail is received or unsubscribed to the customer may include a method of notifying the customer of each mail received by the existing main user e-mail account and allowing the customer to select whether to receive the mail directly. Can be.

However, when the customer requests a change of the main e-mail account, the customer requests to input a target account (or a target account not to be received) to the changed e-mail account in advance, and the service server 100 requests the existing main e-mail account. In the process of checking the sender's mail account of each received mail, there may be a way to determine whether or not to receive or reject the corresponding customer's preset contents. It is not limited to.

6 is a block diagram showing another embodiment of the email service system of the present invention.

That is, the system for the email service according to another embodiment of the present invention is largely stored in the service server 300 for providing an email account to each customer, the information of each customer information and the email account for each customer, respectively It is constructed including the customer information DB (400).

In the above, the service server 300 continuously receives a request for registering an email account provided to each customer as a main e-mail account, and when the request is received through the existing main e-mail account of the customer. Receives each mail received, and sends a notification of the change of the primary email account to each email account that sent the mail.

At this time, the e-mail account that the customer wishes to change to the main e-mail account may be an e-mail account provided by a website operated by the service server 300, but may be an e-mail account provided by another website. In this case, the service server 300 is preferably set to provide an arbitrary email account for mail forwarding to the customer.

The customer information DB 400 registers and stores e-mail accounts for each customer and their changes.

Hereinafter, another embodiment of the email service method using the configuration of the present invention as described above will be described in more detail with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 7 and 8.

First, the service server 300 continuously receives a service request according to the change of the primary use email account from each customer.

At this time, each customer is preferably registered to provide a service on the website operated by the service server 300, in this process, the service server 300 for the main use email account for each customer The information is received and registered in the customer information DB 400. Of course, the above process may be performed when each customer requests a service for changing the primary e-mail account.

If, in the above process, we receive a request for a service that wishes to change the email account provided to a particular customer to a primary email account, then the online website where the client has verified the primary email account and provided this email account Access to the mail server forwarding service (Mail Forwarding Service) to the email account provided to the customer through the website operated by the service server 300.

In this state, when various mails are received through the main e-mail account previously used by the customer, the received e-mail is delivered to the main e-mail account which the customer has requested to change through the mail forwarding service.

In addition, the service server 300 for providing the main use email account checks each mail delivered from the main use email account, acquires an email account of the originator that sent the mail, and corresponds to each obtained email account. Send the fact that the customer's primary use email account has changed and the primary use email account requested by the customer to change, and store the details thereof in the customer information DB 400.

At this time, the reason for registering the change history of the main e-mail account for the specific customer in the customer information DB 400 is that the sender of the mail received from the existing main e-mail account may not only overlap, but also to the sender of the mail. This is to prevent unnecessary duplication of unnecessary mail, considering that the customer's main e-mail change can be duplicated.

However, another embodiment of the present invention is not necessarily operable only by the above-described process, and when a request for changing the primary e-mail account is received from a specific customer as shown in the flowchart of FIG. You can also apply for services such as forwarding mail received through an existing primary use email account with any assigned account.

In this case, the sender's email account of each mail delivered to the arbitrary account can be confirmed through the above-described embodiments of the present invention and other embodiments, and the sender's email account of each confirmed mail is used as the client's main account. You will be notified that your email account has changed.

At this time, each mail delivered from the existing main e-mail account owned by the customer to any account provided by the service server is forwarded through the mail forwarding service again to the current main e-mail account requested by the customer. It is more desirable to allow the customer to correctly receive the mail sent to him.

In addition, in another embodiment of the present invention as described above, so that the customer can select each mail received from the existing primary use email account to receive the mail to the requested primary use email account, or not to receive It can be set, which is the same as the above-described embodiment.

In addition, if the customer is pre-set to not receive mail that contains certain content, check the email account for the mail that contains this content and use the verified account for this week's primary email account Information can be set to not provide.

In addition, the existing main e-mail account used by the customer, even if the change by the customer does not terminate the service for a minimum period of time, so that the change of the main e-mail account can be accurately delivered to the desired target. It is recommended that you make a request for a change to your primary email account from the customer and retrieve the address book files (e.g. * .wab files and * .vcard files, etc.) stored on the customer's PC and any other It is also a good idea to let each of your customers know that their email account has changed.

As described above, a service system for managing change of an email account and an operation method thereof according to an embodiment of the present invention manage an email account for each customer, and among the managed information, a main user email account from a specific customer. In the event of a change in the customer's email service, the customer's satisfaction with the email service can be improved by allowing the customer to automatically perform the operation without notifying each other customer of his or her e-mail account change. .

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Receives a service for managing online e-mail account change from each customer, and checks the existing e-mail account and the e-mail account to be changed based on the received information, and other designated customers received in the old e-mail account. A service server that notifies each email account of the customer's email change; A service system for change management of an e-mail account, wherein the customer's e-mail account and its change history are registered and stored. Provide each customer with an email account, and continue to receive a request to register the provided email account as a primary email account, and if such a request is received, A service server which receives each mail and notifies each email account to which the mail is sent, of the change of the primary email account; A service system for change management of an e-mail account, wherein the customer's e-mail account and its change history are registered and stored. Receiving a service request resulting from a change in primary usage email account from each customer; Requesting a specific customer to enter an email account to be changed if a request is made to change the primary email account; Retrieving an email account of the sender who sent the mail by searching each mail history received by the customer's existing primary use email account; And notifying the changed primary use email account of the customer to each of the identified email accounts. The method of claim 3, wherein While verifying the sender's email account for messages received with the customer's existing primary email account, Requesting a choice as to whether the customer wants to receive the mail account or not the mail; If there is an intention to opt out of a specific e-mail account among the e-mail senders, the e-mail account designated as the opt-out of the e-mail account of the customer is notified. Excluding from each e-mail account for notifying the changed primary-use e-mail account: The method of operation of the service system for change management of the e-mail account further comprises. The method of claim 3, wherein In the process of verifying the email account that sent mail to the customer's existing primary email account, Checking an e-mail account of an e-mail including the content designated as the rejection content set by the corresponding customer among the received e-mails; Excluding an e-mail account designated as the rejection in the process of notifying each e-mail account that the customer's primary e-mail account has been changed: The method of operating the service system for managing the change of the e-mail account further comprises: . The method of claim 3, wherein If the customer wants to cancel the existing main e-mail account, setting the mail reception to the existing main e-mail account only for a predetermined time period, and continuously checking the received mail during this period; Verifying the sender's email account of the mail received during the period of time; and further including and operating the service system for change management of the email account. The method of claim 3, wherein Retrieving an address book file stored on a PC of a specific customer who has requested to change the primary e-mail account; Confirming an email account of each customer recorded in the address book; And notifying the primary customer email account of the corresponding customer to the confirmed email account of each customer: the operation method of the service system for change management of the email account further comprising. Receiving a service request resulting from a change in primary usage email account from each customer; Requesting a specific customer to enter an email account to be changed when the main use email account is requested to be changed; Applying for a mail forwarding service by accessing a web site that provides an existing main use email account of the customer requesting the service; Checking the sender email account of each mail received through the applied mail forwarding service and notifying the customer of the email change to the confirmed sender email account: change management of an email account Operating system of service system. The method of claim 8, A method of operating a service system for change management of an email account, wherein the mail account for applying for mail forwarding service and receiving each mail from an existing primary use email account is a changeable primary use email account requested by the corresponding customer. The method of claim 8, Checking each mail received with the modified primary user email account; Extracting only the mail received from the existing main e-mail account among the checked mails; Checking an email account of the sender who sent the extracted mail; And notifying the primary e-mail account of the customer has been changed to the checked e-mail account. The method of claim 1, further comprising the operation of the service system. The method of claim 8, When you receive a request to change your primary email account Assigning any account to the customer; Applying for a forwarding service of mail received to an existing main use email account to the assigned any account; Identifying a sender email account of each mail forwarded to the any account; And notifying the primary account of the customer's primary e-mail account to the confirmed account. The method of claim 11, And forwarding each mail forwarded to a certain account to a main use email account requested by the customer for change, and operating the service system for change management of an email account. The method of claim 8, The customer uses the forwarding service to check the sender's email account for mail received from the existing primary email account. Requesting selection of whether the sender's email account of the forwarded mail is the mail that the customer wants to receive or does not want to receive; If there is a willingness to opt out of a specific email account among the sender's email accounts that sent each mail, the email account designated as the opt-out is notified during the process of notifying each email account that the customer's primary use email account has been changed. Excluding from each e-mail account for notifying the changed primary user e-mail account of the customer. The method of claim 8, The customer uses the forwarding service to verify the sender's email account that sent the mail from the existing primary email account. Checking an e-mail account of an e-mail including the content designated as the rejection content set by the corresponding customer among the received e-mails; Excluding an e-mail account designated as the rejection in the process of notifying each e-mail account that the customer's primary e-mail account has been changed: The method of operating the service system for managing the change of the e-mail account further comprises: . The method of claim 8, If the customer wants to cancel the existing main e-mail account, setting the mail reception to the existing main e-mail account only for a predetermined time period, and continuously receiving the mail received during this period; Verifying an email account of the sender who has sent the received mail during the period of time; and operating the service system for change management of the email account. The method of claim 8, Retrieving an address book file stored on the PC of the customer requesting to change the primary e-mail account; Confirming an email account of each customer recorded in the address book; And notifying the primary customer email account of the corresponding customer to the confirmed email account of each customer: the operation method of the service system for change management of the email account further comprising.