KR20040010436A - Mail Plus Short Message Service - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for providing a mail plus SMS service is provided to automatically display a transmitted mail address, a sender mail address, and a mail title on a short message input window and a receiver portable phone number and a sender portable phone number on a portable phone number input window so that a user can notify a receiver of the transmission of electronic data through a short message by pushing a confirmation button once. CONSTITUTION: A sender accesses a mail site that a mail server provides(210) and selects 'sending' after making out E-mail(220). The mail server extracts the sender's mail address, a receiver's mail address, and the title of the mail from the prepared mail data and makes them automatically displayed on the short message input window of the sender's computer(230). Then the mail server fetches the sender and receiver's portable phone numbers and makes them automatically displayed(233). The sender confirms the displayed short message contents and the receiver's portable phone number and name and selects 'SMS sending' after modification or addition(235-240). The short message is transmitted to the message center of a mobile communication company through an SMS providing part(250-260).

Description

Mail Plus Short Message Service

The present invention relates to a method of providing a text message service for notifying transmission of an electronic document and a computer-readable recording medium for realizing the above method. Particularly, the sender selects 'send' after completing a mail writing to his computer. , 'Recipient's email address', 'Sender's email address', 'Mail subject' and the recipient's and sender's mobile phone number are automatically displayed in the text message content input window, recipient mobile phone number and reply number input window respectively. When there is no correction or additional input, it relates to an SMS providing method of sending a message to the recipient's mobile phone automatically by pressing 'OK' button.

SMS has been frequently used as a means of increasing the use of electronic documents such as e-mail and informing the fact of electronic document transmission. However, a lot of spam mails are busy, and even though the mail server tries to distinguish them, it frequently passes through the barrier wall, so it is already abandoned to use SMS at the expense of the recipient. Recently, when there is a need to inform the transmission of electronic documents urgently, the mail portal service provider has suggested a method of notifying the SMS at the sender's expense. However, the cumbersome procedure of re-entering the contents of the notification by text message is accompanied. Therefore, it is more convenient to make a phone call and inform the user, so there is no difference in cost.

The present invention has been proposed in order to solve the above problems, the 'sent mail address', 'sender's email address', 'mail subject' to be withdrawn from the mail creation data, and automatically displayed in the text message input window At the same time, 'receiver mobile number' and 'caller's mobile number' are retrieved from the address book and personal information so that they are automatically displayed in the cell phone number input window, and the user presses the 'OK' button once to notify the fact of the electronic document transmission by SMS. The purpose is to make it possible.

1 is a block diagram of a mail plus SMS providing system to which the present invention is applied.

Figure 2 is a flow diagram of an embodiment for explaining a mail plus SMS providing method according to the present invention.

Figure 3 is an embodiment of the automatic content input emoticon and address window displayed on the monitor of the sender computer provided by the mail server of FIG.

Figure 4 is a conventional SMS display screen notifying the fact that the mail transmission text message.

* Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings

110: mail server 120: SMS provider

130: receiver phone 140: caller computer

150: carrier message center

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is provided with a mail server and a text message service (SMS) providing unit, in the SMS providing method for notifying the sender of the electronic document transmission to the sender computer to the sender computer, the sender to his computer After completing the mail creation and selecting 'Send', the mail server automatically extracts the 'recipient's email address', 'sender's email address' and 'mail subject' from the created mail data and displays it in the text message content input window of the sender's computer. A first step of retrieving the recipient and the caller's mobile phone number from the address book and the self information and automatically displaying the mobile phone number and the reply number input window of the user computer; When the sender enters a corrected or additional input item, if not, the user automatically enters a 'Notification Text Message' by pressing the 'OK' button and sends the message to the receiver's mobile phone via the SMS provider and the mobile operator's message center. Second step; The receiver provides a SMS providing method including a third step of confirming the mail transmission fact by the 'notification text message' and accessing the mail site corresponding to the received mail address to check the contents of the mail.

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 mail plus SMS providing system to which the present invention is applied.

As shown in the figure, the system to which the present invention is applied, the mail server 110, the sender's computer 140, the SMS provider 120, the receiver's mobile phone 130, the mobile communication company's message center 150, It consists of.

The mail server 110 operates a mail service site (hereinafter referred to as a 'mail site') to provide a mail plus SMS according to the present invention, and provides a mail plus SMS according to the present invention. 120 and the message center 150 of the mobile communication company may be linked through a network.

Hereinafter, a mail plus SMS providing method of the present invention using the system shown in FIG. 1 will be described in detail.

Figure 2 is a flow chart of an embodiment for explaining a mail plus SMS providing method according to the present invention, a case in which the sender notifies the fact that the mail transmission to the mobile phone 130 of the mail receiver using the computer 140 It is for.

As shown in the figure, the service providing method of the present invention accesses the mail site provided by the mail server 110 (210) selects 'send' when the mail is completed (220). By this selection, the mail server 110 extracts the 'recipient's email address', 'sender's email address', and 'mail subject' from the created mail data so that the mail server 110 is automatically displayed in the text message content input window of the sender's computer (230). To retrieve the recipient and the sender's mobile phone number from the address book and his or her information, the mobile phone number, the recipient's name and the reply number input window of the user's computer are automatically displayed (233). The sender checks the displayed text message content and the recipient's mobile phone number and name (235), adds or modifies the content if there is an addition or modification (238), and selects 'Send SMS' if not (240) via the SMS provider. (250), the carrier's message center (260), the carrier's message center transmits it to the recipient's mobile phone (270), the recipient of the mail transmission 'notification text message' the recipient has received whether or not to complete the mail confirmation The determination is made (280).

Hereinafter, the text message content input window and the mobile number input window that are automatically displayed will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 3.

3 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a content input window and an address window provided by the mail server of FIG. 1 and automatically displayed on a monitor of a sender computer.

As shown in the figure, the mail plus SMS of the present invention is connected to the mail server 110 when the sender who completes the mail writing select 'send', 'transmitted mail address', extracted from the created mail data, 'Sender's email address',' mail subject 'is downloaded and displayed in place of' Please enter a message here '(350) in the message input window 310,' receiver mobile phone in the address book of the mail server 110 'Draw the number' is displayed in the receiver's mobile phone number input window 320, and also displays the 'receiver name' (330) to prevent error transmission, and the 'caller's mobile number' withdrawn from the magnetic information input the reply number It is input to the window 340, it is possible to check whether all the necessary inputs and errors.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the case of SMS for notifying the transmission of the mail has been described, but this does not exclude the case of notifying other electronic document transmission facts.

The method of the present invention as described above may be implemented as a program and stored in a computer-readable recording medium (CD-ROM, RAM, ROM, various disks, etc.).

The present invention described above is not limited to the above-described embodiment and the accompanying drawings, and various substitutions, modifications, and changes are possible within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention. It will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in Esau.

In the present invention as described above, since the sending message of the electronic document such as e-mail can be automatically prepared as a text message can be sent in one-touch, it can be most appropriately operated as a means for notifying the fact that the electronic document is sent. In addition, the name of the recipient automatically displayed can also be useful as a tool to prevent errors in the transmission of the mail, so that the use of the document can be expanded as a help means.

Claims (1)

In the SMS providing method comprising a mail server and a text message service providing unit, to notify the recipient of the fact that the electronic document transmission, When the sender completes the mail to his computer and selects 'Send', the mail server extracts the 'recipient's email address', 'sender's email address', and 'mail subject' from the created mail data. A first step of automatically displaying the input window, and extracting the mobile phone numbers of the recipient and the caller from the address book and the self information so as to be automatically displayed in the recipient mobile phone number and reply number input window of the user computer; When the sender enters a corrected or additional input item, if not, the user automatically enters a 'Notification Text Message' by pressing the 'OK' button and sends the message to the receiver's mobile phone via the SMS provider and the mobile operator's message center. SMS providing method comprising a second step