KR20090000069A - Method of processing e-mail address and storage medium of storing program executing the same - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for processing an e-mail address and a recording medium recording a program for performing the same are provided to input an e-mail address to the address window of a web browser, thereby enabling all client terminals within a group to use an E-mail by using the address window even when a processing program is installed to only one client terminal within the group connected to a local network. An inquiring message including a character string from a first client terminal delivered via a local network to which a plurality of client terminals is connected is transmitted to a second client terminal. The inquiring message is analyzed. In case the inquiring message uses the local network as the destination, the processing of the inquiring message is determined. It is determined whether the character string is an e-mail address or not. If the character string is the e-mail address, a response message including the Internet address of an e-mail address processing server(DNS) is transmitted to the first client terminal.

Description

Recording medium recording method of e-mail address and program for executing the same {Method Of Processing E-mail Address And Storage Medium Of Storing Program Executing The Same}

1 is a schematic block diagram for explaining processing of an e-mail address according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart of processing an email address according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a screen illustrating an example of providing an email service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

4A to 4C are diagrams illustrating an example of an integrated service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a block diagram illustrating the processing of an email address according to another embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a method of processing an email address using a local network.

In general, in order to use E-mail, you have to use a separate mail client program or access the web mail providing site and use it. In addition, when accessing the web mail, the user has to go through various steps such as accessing the site, logging in, accessing the mail menu, and selecting sending.

Meanwhile, with the activation of the Internet, most modern computers are connected to each other through a network. Computers in the network can communicate with computers that are physically very far apart through the Internet network. At this time, the Internet network forms a large communication network by connecting large and small network networks to each other through a router or the like.

However, local networks, where a few hundreds to hundreds of computers are physically connected to one network, are used in some areas such as network printing and file sharing, but in most cases the benefits of physical proximity to the local network are almost negligible. The reality is not being utilized.

Generally, the value entered in the address bar of the web browser is transferred to the domain name service server (DNS server) for processing. However, input values that are not in the form of general English domain or IP address cannot be processed. In order to process the input value, the plug-in program must be installed in the user terminal or the domain name service server must be changed to be able to process keyword or email address input.

However, when a program is installed on a client terminal and processed, a problem arises in that a keyword or e-mail address input can be processed only in a client terminal where a program is installed, and a client terminal that does not have a program installed.

The above-mentioned problem is a very serious problem. If any of the client terminals connected through the Internet are able to process a keyword or an e-mail address input and cannot handle it, the user will experience an unstable service.

There is a way to process the keyword or email address by the domain name service server. To implement this, the domain name service server of the client terminal had to be changed to a domain name service server capable of processing the keyword or email address. .

Therefore, there is a problem in that the client terminal in which the domain name service server for which keyword or e-mail address processing is not possible is not installed unless the plug-in program is installed.

An object of the present invention is to solve the inconvenience of conventional methods of using e-mail by using a method of inputting an e-mail address in the address bar of a web browser. In particular, even if a processing program is installed in only one client terminal in a group connected to a local network, E-mail is made available to all client terminals in the group using the address bar.

Another object of the present invention is to make it easy to use a native language e-mail address that is easy to remember by inputting a native language e-mail address in the form of 'native language @ native language' to the address bar.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a page of a web site together with an e-mail when an e-mail address is entered in a web browser address bar of a client terminal.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide various types of services such as SMS, fax, etc. in addition to e-mail when an e-mail address is input in a web browser address window of a client terminal.

As a technical means for solving the above problems, the first aspect of the present invention is to receive a query message at the second client terminal including a string from the first client terminal transmitted via a local network to which a plurality of client terminals are connected. Receiving a query; Analyzing the query message and determining whether to process the query message when the query message is a local network; An e-mail address determination step of determining whether the character string is an e-mail address; And a response sending step of transmitting a response message including an internet address of an email address processing server to the first client terminal when the string is an email address.

Preferably, in the query receiving step, the query message includes the first client terminal IP address, a destination IP address, a processing communication port, a query display, and a character string. It is determined whether or not it matches an IP address for a network and whether there is a query indication in the query message, and if so, it is determined to process the query message. A response message including a communication port, a response indication, and an internet address of the email address processing server is transmitted using the IP address of the first client terminal.

More preferably, the step of determining whether to process further determines whether the processing communication port matches the communication port for processing an Internet address or an email address, and if so, determines to process the query message.

The determining of the e-mail address is preferably determined by the inclusion of the '@' character.

A second aspect of the present invention provides a query receiving step of receiving, at a second client terminal, a query message including a string from a first client terminal delivered via a local network to which a plurality of client terminals are connected; Analyzing the query message and determining whether to process the query message when the query message is a local network; A keyword determining step of determining whether the character string is a keyword type; And a response sending step of transmitting a response message including an internet address of a keyword processing server to the first client terminal if the character string is a keyword type. An access message receiving step of receiving, at the keyword processing server, an access message from the first client terminal; An e-mail address determination step of analyzing the access message and determining that the access message is an e-mail address when the access message includes a feature of an e-mail address; If it is determined that the access message is an email address, it provides an email address processing method comprising the step of responding to a first client terminal a service environment for sending an email.

Preferably, in the query receiving step, the query message includes the first client terminal IP address, a destination IP address, a processing communication port, a query display, and a character string. It is determined whether or not it matches an IP address for a network and whether there is a query indication in the query message, and if so, it is determined to process the query message. A response message including a communication port, a response indication, and an internet address of the keyword processing server is transmitted using the IP address of the first client terminal.

More preferably, the step of determining whether to process further determines whether the processing communication port matches the communication port for processing an Internet address or an email address, and if so, determines to process the query message.

The e-mail address is preferably a native language e-mail address (for example, Korean e-mail address) consisting of "native language @ native language".

Further, in the step of determining the email address, the email address feature is preferably '@' or ID information of the email address.

A third aspect of the present invention provides a query receiving step of receiving, at a second client terminal, a query message including a string from a first client terminal delivered via a local network to which a plurality of client terminals are connected; Analyzing the query message and determining whether to process the query message when the query message is a local network; An e-mail address determination step of determining whether the character string is an e-mail address; And a response sending step of transmitting a response message including an internet address of an email address processing server to the local network if the string is an email address.

Preferably, in the query receiving step, the query message includes a query identifier (ID), a destination IP address, a processing communication port, a query indication, and a character string. It is determined whether or not it matches the target IP address and whether the query message includes a query indication. If this is the case, it is determined to process the query message. A response message including an address, a processing communication port, and a response indication is sent using the IP address of the local network.

More preferably, the step of determining whether to process further determines whether the processing communication port matches the communication port for processing an Internet address or an email address, and if so, determines to process the query message.

A fourth aspect of the present invention provides a query receiving step of receiving, at a second client terminal, a query message including a string from a first client terminal delivered via a local network to which a plurality of client terminals are connected; Analyzing the query message and determining whether to process the query message when the query message is a local network; A keyword determining step of determining whether the character string is a keyword type; And a response sending step of transmitting a response message including an internet address of a keyword processing server to the local network if the character string is a keyword type. An access message receiving step of receiving, at the keyword processing server, an access message from the first client terminal; An e-mail address determination step of analyzing the access message and determining that the access message is an e-mail address when the access message includes a feature of an e-mail address; If it is determined that the access message is an email address, it provides an email address processing method comprising the step of responding to a first client terminal a service environment for sending an email.

Preferably, in the query receiving step, the query message includes a query identifier (ID), a destination IP address, a processing communication port, a query indication, and a character string. It is determined whether or not it matches the target IP address and whether the query message includes a query indication. If this is the case, it is determined to process the query message. Send a response message including a process communication port, and a response indication using the IP address of the local network.

More preferably, the step of determining whether to process further determines whether the processing communication port matches the communication port for processing an Internet address or an email address, and if so, determines to process the query message.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for receiving and processing a query message including a string from a first client terminal transmitted through a local network to which a plurality of client terminals are connected. If the character string from the terminal is an email address, an email service environment for sending an email is provided, and a network address corresponding to at least a portion of the character strings included in the email address is searched and provided to the client terminal so that the user terminal receives the network address. It provides an email service method comprising the step of accessing a web page corresponding to the address.

The method of providing an e-mail service environment and web page access together may be displayed by dividing one window when each is displayed as a separate window.

A sixth aspect of the present invention is a method of receiving and processing a query message including a string from a first client terminal transmitted via a local network to which a plurality of client terminals are connected, the first client. E-mail service for sending an e-mail, text message service for sending a text message to the recipient of the string, or fax service for fax transmission to the recipient if the character string from the terminal is an e-mail address. The method provides a service environment including the client terminal.

A seventh aspect of the present invention provides a recording medium on which a program for executing an email address processing method is recorded.

The method for processing an e-mail address according to the present invention can be implemented in computer readable codes on a computer readable recording medium. Computer-readable recording media include all types of recording devices that store data that can be read by a computer system. For example, a computer-readable recording medium may be a ROM, a RAM, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a hard disk, a floppy disk, a removable storage device, a nonvolatile memory (Flash memory). Optical data storage, and the like, and also implemented in the form of a carrier wave (eg, transmission over the Internet).

In particular, in the case of the present invention, a program for processing an e-mail address may be installed in the client terminal as described above, and is not particularly limited to perform the method in the process of being transferred from the client terminal to the domain name service server. It may be stored in a recording medium.

"String" refers to all types of input information that can be input into an address bar or a search box of a web browser, and includes all general URLs and keywords (Hangul, numbers, English, etc.).

"Uniform Resource Locator" refers to the address of various information provided by a computer connected to the Internet, for example, a directory as well as a domain name such as "http://www.netpia.com/htm/index.html". It should be understood as a concept that includes all files, files, etc.

"IP (Internet protocol address)" means a physical address for each computer connected to the Internet to identify each other, for example, by protocols such as IPv4 (Internet Protocol version4), IPv6 (Internet Protocol version6) It is promised.

"Keyword" refers to a string that is not in the form of a URL or IP address, and generally refers to a string that does not contain a '.'. "

"E-mail address" is a string in which ID and host are input with '@' in between, and includes both English-language email addresses such as "honggildong@mail.com" and native-language email addresses such as "Hong Gil-dong @ mail". .

By "local network" is meant a communication network in which switches, hubs, and clients are physically connected without going through a router. For example, a method of sending data, such as a query, to various client terminals connected to each other, may be a method of transmitting data to a plurality or all client terminals in a local network, and client terminals connected through a group communication channel. There is only a way to transfer data.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the technical idea of the present invention. In the detailed description of the present invention, a function of dividing into a server, a client terminal, and the like is described. However, these functions may be performed by other components as necessary.

1 is a schematic block diagram illustrating the processing of an e-mail address according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, each of the client terminals 1-1,..., 1 -N is connected through a local network 1 and sends data (packets) to the connected client terminals. The client terminals 1-1, ..., 1-N belonging to the N-B have a structure of receiving and responding to the corresponding data. According to FIG. 1, the arbitrary client terminal 1-1 of each client terminal 1-1, ..., 1-N has installed the e-mail address processing program 100. As shown in FIG. .

When the email address processing program 100 receives a query message including a character string via a local network 1 to which a plurality of client terminals 1-1,..., 1-N are connected, the email address processing program 100 sends the query message. By analyzing, the query message is decided to be processed for the query message when the local network 1 is the destination. Then, it is determined whether the string is an email address, and if the string is an email address, a response message including the Internet address of the email address processing server is transmitted to the client terminal that sent the string.

Referring to the structure of each of the client terminal (1-1, ..., 1-N) of Figure 1 in more detail, each client terminal (1-1, ..., 1-N) is an operating system (30-1) ), An API (Application Programming Interface) 20-1, and a web browser 10-1, which is an application program.

The API 20-1 is a set of subroutines or functions that a program or an application can call to an operating system (OS) 30-1 for processing. A set of functions that define how to use. In other words, an application program such as a web browser can use various functions of the operating system using API functions. For example, the Windows web browser API consists of more than 1000 functions, and application programmers can use various functions by calling a function simply by describing the function in the program.

Meanwhile, although FIG. 1 illustrates a case where an email address processing program is provided as an independent application, the email address processing program may implement some or all of its functions in a web browser.

Meanwhile, although FIG. 1 illustrates a case where an email address processing program is installed in one client terminal, an email address may be processed even when an email address processing program is installed in a plurality of client terminals. In this case, when a query message is transmitted from any client terminal in the local network 1, each of the e-mail address programs in the local network 1 responds to it, and the client terminal transmitting the character string is the first among the returned responses. Use the response that arrived and ignore the response that arrived after that.

In the query message transmission, a query is transmitted to a plurality of client terminals at the same time. However, when a client terminal responds to the query message, the response message transmission does not need to be delivered to multiple terminals. It is desirable to respond in a manner of direct 1: 1 communication using the IP of the client terminal.

At this time, the query message for the e-mail address may be transmitted to the local network as a string input by the user, or may be transmitted in the form of punycode for non-ASCII code. Punicode is a method of converting non-ASCII code characters into ASCII code characters of the form xn--BCQTESQRF so that non-ASCII characters can be used in existing Internet schemes based on ASCII codes.

In this case, it is possible to process the local language Internet address in the same manner as well as the case where the client terminal into which the character string is inputted and the client terminal on which the e-mail address processing program is installed are different terminals.

Hereinafter, a method of processing an email address according to a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 2. 2 is a flowchart of processing an email address according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

A case where an email address processing program is installed in one of the client terminals 1-1, ..., 1-N connected to the local network will be described as an example.

Referring to FIG. 2, when a character string is input to a web browser of a first client terminal 1 -N, which is one of the client terminals 1-1,..., 1 -N connected through a local network (S101). A resolution operation is performed to find a URL or IP address corresponding to a string input through an API 20-N (for example, a network API called Socket) of the client terminal 1-N. As a process of such a resolution operation, an inquiry message is sent to all client terminals connected to the local network (S103). Preferably, the query message includes a first client terminal (1-N) IP address, a destination IP address, a processing communication port, a query indication, and a string.

When the query message is delivered, the second client terminal 1-1 on which the email address processing program is installed receives the query message (S105), and analyzes the query message to determine whether the query message is intended for the local network (S105). S106). As a result of the determination, if the local network is the destination, the flow advances to step S107. If the local network is not the destination, no processing is performed (S108).

Whether the query message is intended for the local network determines whether the destination IP address included in the query message matches the IP address for the local network, and whether there is a query indication in the query message. Determine to process the message. On the other hand, if necessary, whether or not the query message is the destination of the local network may further include determining whether the processing communication port included in the query message matches the communication port for Internet address processing. This is applicable to each IP, such as MDNS (Multicast DNS) for 224.0.0.251 and Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) for 224.0.0.252, and can be applied without checking the communication port separately.

The communication for internet address query and response requires less guarantee of reliability than general data communication, and more fast and simple communication is required. Therefore, TCP that communicates after confirming that the other client terminal is available and ready for communication It is better to use UDP, which transmits data without checking connection status, rather than / IP.

In addition, data for query and response in the Internet is generated at the application layer, and data generated at the application layer is further attached with data of each layer such as UDP header and IP header through the transport layer, network layer, and link layer. It takes the form of a data packet (Ethernet frame) for communication (see Table 1). Ethernet header includes MAC address, which is hardware address of destination and source LAN card, IP header includes source and destination IP address, protocol type, etc., TCP (UDP) header provides information about communication port of corresponding service. Include.

                                Table 1

In order for network communication to take place, there is an address of both sending data and receiving data.The Ethernet header is the MAC address, which is a hardware address such as a LAN card of the destination and the source, and the IP header is the IP address and protocol of the source and destination. It informs the type and the like so that the communication can be made on the network. Table 2 shows the form of the IP header.

                                Table 2

In the case of the communication using the local network according to the present invention, the source IP portion is the IP address of the client terminal, but the destination IP portion is the IP address indicating the local network, not the IP address of the specific client terminal. Specify. At this time, the Ethernet header also indicates whether the query is for a local network.

Therefore, even if the client terminal does not have its own IP, when the data is delivered to the IP address pointing to the local network, it is received. At this time, the IP address indicating the local network may be targeted to all the client terminals of the local network. For example, it may be targeted only to the client terminal that wants to receive data. The client terminal receiving the data can know the IP address of the terminal sending the query message through the value of the IP header.

In order to transmit a query message to all client terminals connected to the local network, the data transmission address may be input by 255.255.255.255 instead of the general IP address, or 255 in the subnet mask application part of the network IP band. For example, if the IP address of the terminal to which the inquiry message is to be sent is 140.252.13.63 and the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, the user may enter 140.252.13.255 as the receiving IP address. By changing the receiving IP address in a similar manner, it is possible to send a message to all client terminals of the network.

Meanwhile, a method of transmitting a resolution query to all or several client terminals in a local network network (for example, broadcasting communication) may expect a response by easily passing a query to many terminals, but may be unnecessary to terminals. There is a problem that excessive network traffic may occur by passing queries. In order to overcome this problem, it is also possible to use a method (eg, multicasting communication) of transmitting data through a common channel for group communication, which transmits data only to relevant terminals.

 First, for group communication through a common channel, a destination IP address among communication IP addresses is used as a separate IP address designated for group communication, not an IP address of a general specific terminal. This separate IP address corresponds to an address destined for the local network. IP addresses for group communication are in the range of 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255, where 224.0.0.1 is 'all hosts on this subnet' and 224.0.0.2 is 'all routers on this subnet', with most IPs pre-specified for specific purposes. It is decided. As the IP for the common channel for the processing of the native language Internet address, 224.0.0.251 or 224.0.0.252 designated for the purpose of the Internet address may be used.

Each client terminal can decide whether or not to receive data transmitted to a specific IP and communication port, and participation in a common channel for group communication receives data transmitted to a specific IP and communication port used for the common channel. It is possible by doing. In this case, the communication port may not be selectively used.

When a character string is input from a client terminal in the local network, the client terminal sends a resolution query for the character string input to the common channel for group communication by using a specific IP and a communication port as a destination address (local network). If connected to the channel, that is, the data that can be processed for the query message transmitted using the specific IP and communication port as the destination address, the terminal transmits the processing data in response to the common channel for group communication or sends the query message. It will respond directly to one client terminal.

On the other hand, when the response message is transmitted, a response can be made to the local network, and since the IP address of the client terminal inquired is known, the response can be made directly to the corresponding terminal, and both can be selected as necessary.

In the case of responding to the local network, a method of confirming whether the client terminal which has sent the query message is a response to the query message is required. In this case, the query identifier is used. The query identifier is an identifier assigned by a program generating an arbitrary query. For example, the "ID" in Table 4 may be used. The client terminal transmitting the query message stores the query identifier of the query message sent by the client. When the response message is transmitted to the local network, it can be known that the response message is transmitted to the query message transmitted from the own terminal through the query identifier included in the response message.

On the other hand, in the present embodiment, it is possible to use a communication port other than port 53 used for general DNS query or port 25 used for e-mail address processing to distinguish services. For example, port 53 is used for general DNS communication, but other ports such as 5353 and 5355 can be used.

In addition, the application layer query message may use the DNS protocol and format used for general Internet address query. The query / response messages of the DNS protocol take the form of headers and data packets divided into four sections for query and response.

                                Table 3

The header section of the section of the data packet is always present and indicates information about what sections exist and whether the message is a query or a response. The header includes fields such as ID, QR, OPcode, and RCODE, and their meanings are as follows.

                                Table 4

ID An identifier assigned by the program generating the random query. QR A field indicating whether the message is a query (0) or a response (1). OPCODE A field indicating the type of query. AA Authoritative Answer-This bit is valid on the response and responds to the name. Indicates that the server is authoritative for the domain name in the query section. TC Turncation-Indicates that the message was truncated because it was larger than the transport channel would allow. RD 'Recursion Desired-Instructs the name server to handle recursive queries. Recursion Available-Indicates whether recursive queries are supported on the name server. Z Indicates how the data is sent. RCODE Response code-Indicates the reason for the processing error. QDCOUNT Indicates the number of items in the question part. Shows the number of resource records in the NSCOUNT Shows the number of name server resource records within the NSCOUNT permission portion ARCOUNT Shows the number of resource records within the other portion

When sending a query message, the value of the QR field indicating a query / response is set to 0. When sending a response message, the value of the QR field is marked as 1 to indicate whether it is a query or a response. In addition, in case of communication between multiple computers connected to the local network and 1: 1 communication, this is indicated in the Z field indicating a data transmission method, and the query identifier (ID) is generated by a program generating an arbitrary query. Identifier to be assigned. In addition to the header values, query and response messages are contained in a query and response session.

                                Table 5

As shown in Table 5, when the query message is sent with data about the character string and the query type, the response is matched to the query type as shown in Table 6 to respond through the response message.

                                Table 6

On the other hand, the client terminal that sent the query message proceeds to the corresponding site, for example, using the response message sent in accordance with the query form. DNS query and response methods can be in various forms such as A resource record for general Internet address resolution or MS resource record for mail exchange resolution. In this case, DNS query and response form are used. The form is not limited to a specific form, such as NetBIOS, which is widely used for computer recognition in network communication, or NetBEUI, IPX, which is an extension protocol of Netbios, or the like.

In the case of netbios, the form of query data is similar to a standard DNS query, and a resource record indicating the type of query data is used for NB resource records corresponding to netbios.

On the other hand, when the query message is analyzed to determine that the query message is to be processed when the destination is the local network, it is determined whether the string is an email address (S107).

As a specific method of determining whether the input string is an e-mail address, it is possible to check whether the input string or a connection message includes a feature indicating an e-mail address.

The feature representing the email address may be a '@' character that distinguishes the ID part from the host part in the general email address, and may also be the ID information of the email address by the 'Authorization' header information or the like included in the access message. 'Authorization' header information is the part in which the information of the ID part before '@' is stored in the input of the e-mail address type. When the input of the e-mail address type is not processed as the input value, it is divided and processed based on the '@' part. The host part after '@' is displayed in 'Host' header information, and the ID part in front of '@' is displayed in 'Authorization' header information. Therefore, if there is 'Authoriztion' header information, it can be determined that the input is in the form of an e-mail address. On the other hand, when the input value of the e-mail address is processed as it is, 'Auhorization' header information is not used. In this case, it is determined whether the e-mail address is confirmed by checking whether the '@' character is included in the input string.

The determination of whether the character string is an email address may be performed by the email address processing program of the second client terminal. However, the email address processing program determines whether the input character string is a keyword type through whether the transmitted character string includes '.' Or the like. It is also possible to determine first, and to determine whether or not the keyword processing server is the secondary email address, and the method of determining the email address in the keyword processing server is the same as the determination method in the email address processing program. In this case, it is preferable that the email address is a native language email address in a native language rather than a general English email address.

Next, when it is determined whether the input character string is an email address and the email address, the email address processing program responds to the first client terminal with the Internet address of the email address processing server capable of processing the email address in response to the query. It may be (S109). On the other hand, when determining whether or not the keyword in the email address processing program, and whether or not the email address secondary in the keyword processing server, it is to respond to the first client terminal the Internet address of the keyword processing server in the email address processing program desirable.

When the first client terminal receives the Internet address, the first client terminal accesses the email address processing server or the keyword processing server using the obtained Internet address (S111).

Hereinafter, a processing flowchart of an email address processing server according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described. When the first client terminal accesses the email address processing server, the first client terminal transmits information about the input string to the email address processing server. The e-mail address processing server provides the first client terminal with an e-mail service environment consisting of a person who receives a string and sends an e-mail address corresponding thereto. The providing method may be implemented by, for example, delivering an internet address (eg, an IP or a URL) of an email service page to a client terminal and accessing the web page using the received internet address. .

Subsequently, the client terminal displays the e-mail service environment in a pop-up form or in a web page form on a web browser. In this case, the e-mail service environment may include various menus (eg, deleted items, drafts, and other user information changes) for e-mail management.

On the other hand, if the character string input from the client terminal is a native language email address, the email address processing server searches for the English email address corresponding to the character string in the email address information DB.

String Email address Gil-Dong Hong @ Attorney at Law Honggildong@hanmail.net Gil-dong @ Korea Kimgildong@korea.com Gil-dong Chung @ Samsung Electronics Jeonggildong@samsung.com Gil-Dong Lee @ Seoul National University Leegildong@snu.ac.kr Hwang Gil-dong @ Army Hwanggildong@hanmail.net beauty @ lawyer Jeraser@lawyer.co.kr girl @ aaa hufgs@yahoo.co.kr

An example of the email address information DB is shown in the above table. The email address information DB has one-to-one correspondence of English email addresses for each character string. Therefore, the email address processing server searches the email address information DB when the string is delivered, finds the corresponding English email address, and automatically inputs the searched English email address to the email service page. In this case, the English email address may be automatically entered as a sender or a recipient.

The email service providing server compares the received character string with email address information registered in the email address information DB, and if there is email address information corresponding to the corresponding access word, delivers the email service page to the client terminal, and delivers it from the client terminal. If the received string does not exist in the e-mail address information DB, the e-mail address information similar to the corresponding string may be searched and may be displayed on the client terminal in a drop down method.

Meanwhile, in the case of an e-mail address of an input string, a method of providing an e-mail service environment for sending an e-mail and a web page corresponding to the e-mail address may be provided. In this case, it is preferable to implement each character string by linking to a designated site for each user's email address. In other words, the designated sites for individual addresses correspond to each character string, and if it is determined to be an email address depending on the presence or absence of a @ character string input in the Internet address bar, it connects to the designated site. This way, for example, Hong Gil-dong Cyworld, Gang Gil-dong Cyworld, etc., the strings following the @ can be used in common, and the individual characters can be matched as the string before the @ changes. It is similar to Cyworld Mini Homepy. On the other hand, there is no individual designation site corresponding to the input string, and if there is a homepage corresponding to the string following @, it may be configured to connect to this homepage.

On the other hand, if there is no home page corresponding to the input string, a web search result for a part of the input string, for example, a string (host) after the @ and a string (ID) located at the front end, searches for a similar email address. Results and the like.

Alternatively, the email service environment and the website may be provided together using separate windows or split screens.

3 is a screen illustrating an example of providing an email service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 3, a separate window is divided into two, one window is connected to a corresponding homepage, and the other window is provided with an email service environment or an integrated service environment. If "Jo Young-hwan @ Attorney" is entered in the Internet address bar, an email service page or an integrated service environment is provided in Area A, and a web page corresponding to "Jo Young-hwan @ Attorney" is provided in Area B. The integrated service environment will be described later in detail.

Hereinafter, a case of providing an additional service (integrated service) other than providing an email service will be described.

If the character string from the terminal to the client is an email address, an email service for sending an email, a text message service for sending a text message to the recipient of the string, and a fax service for fax transmission to the recipient of the string A method of providing a service environment including any one of the above to the client terminal. Only one such service environment may be provided, and an integrated service environment may be provided by selectively providing two or more services together.

When the email address processing server receives the character string from the client terminal, the email address processing server, together with the integrated service environment for selectively performing e-mail, text message or fax transmission to the recipient (or sender) based on the received character string, for example. The method of transmitting the network address preset in the character string to the client terminal may be used.

In addition, the email address processing server may receive the selected integrated service performance data from the client terminal to determine whether it is an email, a text message or a fax transmission service, and deliver the service to the corresponding service server.

Meanwhile, the email address processing server compares the string received from the client terminal with the email address information registered in advance in the integrated service information DB, and delivers the integrated service environment to the client terminal when the email address information corresponding to the string exists. If the string received from the client terminal does not exist in the integrated service information DB, the email address information similar to the string may be searched and displayed on the client terminal in a drop-down manner.

At this time, in the integrated service information DB, personal information (eg, a fax number, a mobile phone number, an IP, a URL, etc.) of members for each registered email address is stored in a database. For example, a phone, fax, and site address may be stored in a 1: 1 manner for an access word "Hong Gil-dong @ Korea", and IDs such as Hong Gil-dong, Hong Gil-soon, and Gap-dok are stored under each host name of "Korea". Phone, fax or site addresses may be specified. In this case, the latter process is hierarchically, such as finding the server corresponding to 'Korea' first, and then finding each ID. If the phone, fax, or site address is not specified for each ID, the upper value 'Korea' is used. You can also make sure that the specified phone, fax, and site address values apply.

4A to 4C show an example of an integrated service environment. This integrated service environment is a case where a separate window is divided into two windows, one window is connected to a corresponding homepage, and the other window is provided with an integrated service environment where services such as text messages and faxes can be provided.

Here, in the integrated service environment, a service description that displays a brief description of the e-mail address corresponding to the string (for example, Mr. Cho Young-hwan's mailbox) and a recent announcement provided by the e-mail address processing server (e.g., Korean e) A notification display unit displaying e-mail to an e-mail address, an integrated service selection menu unit for selectively performing e-mail, text message or fax transmission, and a service for performing this service according to the service menu selected through the selection menu unit It is configured to include a performer (see FIGS. 4A to 4C).

Referring to FIG. 4A, when an e-mail service is selected in the selection menu unit, basic service menus (eg, mail subject, sender, e-mail editor) for sending a normal e-mail to the service execution unit as a recipient of the corresponding word. , Attachment selection, etc.) is displayed.

Referring to FIG. 4B, when a text message is selected in the selection menu unit, basic service menus (eg, text message input window, special character) for sending a normal text message to the service performing unit as a recipient of the corresponding connection word are shown. Selection window, etc.) is displayed.

Referring to FIG. 4C, when a fax transmission service is selected in the selection menu unit, basic service menus (eg, fax title and transmission) for sending a fax through the Internet as a recipient of the connection word in the service execution unit. File selection window, etc.) is displayed.

On the other hand, a program of a corresponding function may be installed so that a client terminal of a local network may respond to an e-mail address resolution query, but an e-mail address processing program may be produced as a separate application from a web browser or the web browser itself. Of course it is also possible to insert this functionality into the. In addition, some functions of the e-mail address processing program may be performed by the original functions of the operating system.

On the other hand, in the case of a keyword processing program according to the prior art, when a string is input, there is a hooking and processing in the step before the string is transferred to the API, but the email address processing program of the present invention receives and responds to the data queried through the network. Because of the structure, the change to the client system is significantly reduced compared to the prior art, it is possible to build a stable system.

In addition, in an actual implementation of the present invention, a resolution query for an email address made at a client terminal may send a resolution query to a domain name service server together with a query to a local network. In the case of making a query to the domain name service server in parallel with the query to the local network, the client terminal processes only the first response among them.

In another variation, the client terminal may be implemented to query the domain name service server when the client terminal makes a resolution query of an email address to the local network and there is no terminal that can respond to the request for a predetermined time.

Meanwhile, when the E-mail address processing program is installed in the corresponding client terminal, the client transmits the query message to all the client terminals in the local network and transmits the query message only to the client terminals connected through the group communication channel. You can change the configuration of the client so that the environment can receive the query message.

For example, in the case of transmitting data only to the client terminals connected through the group communication channel, when the email address processing program is installed, the routing information about the network card being used is viewed and the 224.0.0.0/4 band ( 224.0.0.0 ~ 239.255.255.255) to check if it is set to be available. The following shows the case of checking with the route print command on the command.

In most MS series windows, only the client terminals connected through the group communication channel may be configured to receive data, but the email address processing program checks such settings and if not, the client router Add to handle the 224.0.0.0/4 band in the table. For example, it can be added simply by using the route add command.

The email address processing program monitors whether there is data reception for the IP (224.0.0.251 ~ 2, etc.) and port (53, 25, 5355, 5353, etc.) to which an inquiry about the email address is forwarded, and receives the corresponding data. When an event occurs, it is desirable to have it react and handle.

5 is a block diagram illustrating the processing of an email address according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to the differences from FIG. 1, the system of FIG. 1 is implemented in the form of an email address processing program inserted in a web browser, whereas the system of FIG. 1 is an independent application. There is a difference. If a web browser is active, sending data (packets) will receive the corresponding data and respond. In this case, of course, it is also possible to add a function of processing the e-mail address entered in the address bar as a function of the web browser or the operating system itself.

Although the technical spirit of the present invention has been described in detail according to the above-described preferred embodiment, it should be noted that the above-described embodiment is for the purpose of description and not of limitation. In addition, those skilled in the art will understand that various embodiments are possible within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

The method of processing an e-mail address using the new address bar according to the present invention allows a user to receive an environment in which an e-mail can be easily sent by simply inputting a connection word in a web browser address bar. In particular, it solved the problem of the prior art that the processing of the e-mail address input from the address window only in the client terminal where the e-mail address processing program is installed. That is, even if there is only one computer capable of processing the email address entered in the address bar in the local network, all the computers in the connected local network can process the email address in the address bar without any action.

For example, if a few hundreds or hundreds of computer terminals are connected to the local network, such as a school, a business, or an apartment complex, the terminal is used to handle e-mail addresses through the address bar. Although all the processing programs must be installed one by one, according to the method of the present invention, even if the program is installed in only one terminal, the email address service is available through the address window in all tens and hundreds of terminals connected to the local network. The effect is so great that it is incomparable with existing methods.

In addition, since it responds directly from the local network, it is faster and more effective in generating network traffic than using a general Internet network that communicates with a remote server.

In addition, according to the present invention, if the access word entered by the user is an email address by searching for a network address corresponding to at least a portion of the string included in the input string in the input client terminal, the webpage associated with the automatic As it is provided to the user, the user can feel the convenience.

In addition, by providing an integrated service environment to selectively provide e-mail, text message, or fax transmission based on the connection word in addition to sending an e-mail, the user can receive various services by inputting the connection word in the web browser address bar. have

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A query receiving step of receiving, at the second client terminal, a query message including a string from the first client terminal transmitted via the local network to which the plurality of client terminals are connected; Analyzing the query message and determining whether to process the query message when the query message is a local network; An e-mail address determination step of determining whether the character string is an e-mail address; And And a response sending step of transmitting a response message including an internet address of an email address processing server to the first client terminal if the string is an email address. A query receiving step of receiving, at the second client terminal, a query message including a string from the first client terminal transmitted via the local network to which the plurality of client terminals are connected; Analyzing the query message and determining whether to process the query message when the query message is a local network; A keyword determining step of determining whether the character string is a keyword type; A response sending step of transmitting a response message including an internet address of a keyword processing server to the first client terminal if the character string is a keyword type; An access message receiving step of receiving, at the keyword processing server, an access message from the first client terminal; An e-mail address determination step of analyzing the access message and determining whether the access message is an e-mail address; And And responding to the first client terminal an email service environment when the access message is an email address. The method according to claim 1 or 2, In the query receiving step, the query message includes the first client terminal IP address, destination IP address, processing communication port, query display, and character string, In the process of determining whether or not the destination IP address is identical to the IP address for the local network or whether there is a query indication in the query message, and if it is determined to process the query message, The response sending step is an email address processing method for transmitting a response message including a first client terminal IP address, a processing communication port, a response indication, and an internet address of the processing server using the IP address of the first client terminal. The method of claim 3, The step of determining whether or not the processing further determines whether the processing communication port is identical to the communication port for processing an Internet address or email address, and if so, determines to process the query message. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The e-mail address determination step is an e-mail address processing method characterized in that it is determined whether the e-mail address by including the '@' character in the string. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The determining of the email address comprises determining whether the email address is an email address by including 'Authorization' header information of the string. A query receiving step of receiving, at the second client terminal, a query message including a string from the first client terminal transmitted via the local network to which the plurality of client terminals are connected; A query receiving step of receiving, at the second client terminal, a query message including a string from the first client terminal via the local network; Analyzing the query message and determining whether to process the query message when the query message is a local network; An e-mail address determination step of determining whether the character string is an e-mail address; And And sending a response message including the internet address of the email address processing server to the local network if the string is an email address. A query receiving step of receiving, at the second client terminal, a query message including a string from the first client terminal transmitted via the local network to which the plurality of client terminals are connected; A query receiving step of receiving, at the second client terminal, a query message including a string from the first client terminal via the local network; Analyzing the query message and determining whether to process the query message when the query message is a local network; A keyword determining step of determining whether the character string is a keyword type; And A response sending step of transmitting a response message including an internet address of a keyword processing server to the local network if the character string is a keyword type; An access message receiving step of receiving, at the keyword processing server, an access message from the first client terminal; An e-mail address determination step of analyzing the access message and determining whether the access message is an e-mail address; And And responding the service environment to the first client terminal when the access message is an email address. The method according to claim 7 or 8, In the query receiving step, the query message includes a query identifier (ID), a destination IP address, a processing communication port, a query indication, and a character string. In the processing step determining whether the destination IP address matches the IP address for the local network and whether the query message is included in the query message, it is determined whether to process the query message. , The response sending step is an email address processing method for transmitting a response message including a query identifier, a processing server Internet address, a processing communication port, and a response indication using an IP address of the local network. The method of claim 9, The step of determining whether or not the processing further determines whether the processing communication port is identical to the communication port for processing an Internet address or email address, and if so, determines to process the query message. Receiving, at the second client terminal, an inquiry message including a string from the first client terminal delivered via the local network to which the plurality of client terminals are connected; An e-mail address determination step of determining whether the character string from the first client terminal is an e-mail address; Providing an email service environment for sending an email if the string is an email address; And And searching for a network address corresponding to at least a part of a string included in the email address and providing the same to the client terminal so that the user terminal accesses a web page corresponding to the network address. Receiving, at the second client terminal, an inquiry message including a string from the first client terminal delivered via the local network to which the plurality of client terminals are connected; An e-mail address determination step of determining whether the character string from the first client terminal is an e-mail address; If the string from the first client terminal is an email address, an email service for sending an email, a text message service for sending a text message to a recipient of the string, and a fax for fax transmission to the recipient of the string; And providing a service environment including any one of services to the client terminal. A recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method for processing an email address according to any one of claims 1 to 12.

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