TW518456B - Method for reporting the e-mail forwarding times and the computer readable objects using the method - Google Patents

Abstract

The main subject of the present invention is to generate the report of e-mail forwarding times, so as to correctly account for the total mailing times of the e-mail, wherein the e-mail for accounting the forwarding is required to have the necessary tags for forwarding the report, so that the application program for receiving and sending e-mail can account for the number of forwarded receivers after reading the tags for forwarding the report, and generate a forwarding report containing the number information of the forwarded receiver to a server for accounting the forwarding times, and the server for counting the forwarding times will gather the statistics of accumulated forwarding times.

Description

Chuan 456 A7 B7 V. Description of the Invention (Field of the Invention) ^ The invention calculates the number of forwarded emails and the number of forwarders-how the server calculates the number of forwarded emails. [Background of the present invention] The sending of e-mails on pages has become a very common data communication. In addition to paper letters, paper applications, the application of transmitting information occupies a very important role; for example, Taiwan's portal site "Internet Family" It is a service website that provides subscriptions to newspapers. Interested netizens can subscribe to hundreds of shares. "E-newsletters", and millions of "e-newsletters" are sent by the server, and these "e-newsletters" are actually emails due to their size. "P knife's e-newsletter" is a free subscription, so support for the operation of "telegram: newspaper" usually encloses advertisements in the "e-newsletter", and through the operation of the advertisement "cigarette = electronic newsletter". Regarding the grievance fee, "Billing is usually based on the amount of« Children '. "The higher the number sent, the higher the advertising fee :: So the more popular" e-newsletter "can get higher advertising fees but The actual number of emails sent is often much greater than the number of original emails. For example, there are 100,000 subscribers to a "newsletter", so the first time it is sent 100,000 copies, but some subscribers often forward the "newsletter" to For his friend, for example, please see the schematic diagram of the email forwarding in the figure below. The sender 30 sends four emails to the recipient 3], ",] #, and the recipient 33 sends this email Forward to the recipient, and the recipient 34 forwards this email to the recipients 34a, 34b, and the recipient 33c forwards this email to the recipient 33. The paper size is suitable China National Standard (CNS) A4 Specifications ⑵Q χ Tear Love Factory 518456 A7

Therefore, the total number of email breaks and forwards is nine times, so the number of times you receive this e-mail should be _in the first sending: the number of owed plus _ the example of the picture sent, the total material cost of this email is I1 (four plus nine). ^ Therefore, if you want to correctly estimate an email or "e-mail = you should consider the number of reposts, so you can estimate the real other needs He wanted to know how popular the joke was: Degrees, at which point information on the number of forwards was important. It is therefore necessary to be able to know how many times emails were forwarded. [Outline of the Invention] The main purpose of the present invention is to generate a report of the number of times of email forwarding, so as to provide a correct calculation of the total number of times of email sending. This issue 2 can be used to send and receive telegrams, such as Microsoft's "OutLwk Express", and it is necessary to calculate the number of tags that can be used for forwarding. For example, the postal mail to be forwarded Du Zhong has a mark for forwarding calculation whether to enable, a mark for email identification code, and a mark for the web address of the feeder that counts the number of different forwarding times. When you send the email to someone with a mark for forwarding calculation, the application that sends and receives the email will perform the following steps: The number of recipients will be sent;, 'Read the email Contains the mark of the mailer mail address (mai 1 address) for calculating the number of forwards; (Please read the precautions on the back before filling this page) Printed by the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs-Cooperative

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The winter paper size is subject to the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 regulations (210 χ, 7 must be loved, 5. Description of the invention (3) An e-mail report is generated, and the content of the file includes the number report of the forwarded recipient 。E-mail 埤 S, 丨 sister ^ The number of recipients and the e-mail address is set to the e-mail address where the e-mail is delivered to receive the report of the light mail report, the server can mail, and the application of the server Program Hexi, the e-mail of the report received the e-mail of the forwarding report; step. Read the e-mail of the forwarded report received; read the number of == persons and the reported e-mail according to the search = ID block of the mail, and feast: = Number of forwards recorded in the Forward-Number column corresponding to the read of the ID block of the sub-mail; The read reading: New: = 目 'is recorded as the number of times forwarded. Because the invention has a novel structure, can provide industrial use, and has a secret effect, it has applied for an invention patent according to law. ] Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of email forwarding This paper size_CNS Standard A4 Specification 518456 A7 ---- B7 V. Description of the Invention (4) The second figure is the main flow chart of the method of the present invention. The third figure is the method of the present invention about forwarding The procedure of the function of sending times. Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of the first embodiment of the present invention using the technology of the present invention. Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of the second embodiment of the present invention using the technology of the e-mail forwarding. Fig. 6 is the present invention. The hardware architecture diagram of the server for calculating the number of forwarding times. Figure 7 is the main flow chart for calculating the number of forwarding times. Figure 8 is the database of email forwarding times of the present invention. Figure 9 is the Chinese version of Microsoft OutLook Express Example 0 of the inbox screen Figure 10 is an example of the forwarded mail editing screen of the Chinese version of Microsoft OutLook Express. Figure 11 shows an example of the part of the email header. [Illustration of the drawing number] Sender 3 0 Recipient 3 3 a ~ 3 3 c Recipient 331 ~ 334 Email forwarding database 4 1 Forwarding stop 4 1 2 Communication interface 5 0 Forwarding management main program 70 Search program 7 2 This paper size applies National Standard (CNS) A4 Specification (210 X 297 mm) --------------- Order --------- Line * 4 ^ · (Please read the back first Please note this page and fill in this page again) Calculate the number of forwards Server 1 0 Recipient 3 1 ~ 3 4 Recipient 34a, 34b Storage device 4 0 Email ID field 4 1 1 Email address field 4 1 3 Processor 6 0 Read program 7 1 Printed by the Consumer Cooperative of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs 518456 Printed report program by the Consumer Cooperative of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs 7 4 Internet 8 〇 Forward mail editor Send button 9 2 E-mail content part 94 E-mail header part 9 < E-mail identification code mark 962 A7 B7 V. Description of the invention (5) Cumulative update program 7 3 Query program 7 5 Inbox screen 8 1 Electronic Mail 9 1 Recipient's stop 9 3 Send button 9 5 Forwarding calculation whether to enable flag 9 6 1 Different forwarding times Server mail address flag 9 6 3 [Detailed description of the preferred embodiment] In order to allow Your reviewers can better understand the technical content of the present invention, and the preferred embodiments are described below. ^ Please refer to Figures 2 to 3 for the flowchart of the method of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a main flowchart of the method of the present invention. The method of the present invention can be applied to an application program for sending and receiving emails, such as Microsoft's UTLOKOK Express. The following steps are based on the application program for sending and receiving emails. Take the Chinese version of Microsoft's OutLook Express as an illustration: Step 2 01: Accept the execution command for forwarding the email, please refer to the inbox daytime 81 embodiment in Figure 9 together. The user (for example, recipient 33) first selects the email 91 to be forwarded 91 ′, for example, the subject line is “the pcHome SMS service is officially launched 啰 丨! E-mail 91, and then select the forward button This paper size applies to China National Standard (CNS) A4 specifications (210 X 297%)

^ --- ί # (Please read the notes on the back before filling this page) Order- 丨-线 1 # ---------------------- 518456 A7 B7 The e-mail V. Description of the invention (6 92 'so the execution of the electronic order is executed. The forwarding step 202 should be checked: the recipient's e-mail address, please-and refer to the 10th mail editing screen 82 embodiment. The main point is to make _recipients edit ', but there are 3 most important ones, which are the recipients ... ~ ...) D objects (such as receiving step 203: Edit :::::: : The program for the recipient. After the user finishes editing and forwarding the material_screen 82, the procedure for sending the e-mail to the recipient is hidden. Sending steps 2G1 ~ 2G3 is a traditional procedure , The following are the steps for this issue ^ σ 卩. But please refer to Figure U for an example of the Mail header part of the displayed email. ≫ The present invention is directed to emails that can be forwarded. Necessary tags are required. For example, the e-mail 91 to be forwarded has the forwarding calculation "whether the activation flag 961, the e-mail identification code flag 962, and the Repost the server URL mark 963, these marks are best recorded in the email header of the e-mail (the Internet is based on%, so that the electronic content (Body) part 94 will not display these marks (of course these problems) It can also be recorded in the email content section 9 4). ^ --- 丨 (Please read the note on the back first # 真 窝 良 I 吣 定 --------- line · Intellectual Property Bureau staff of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Printed by Consumer Cooperatives

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、 Explanation of the invention (7) The header part 9 of the document records some credit information, such as the sender 30 is cocohsu ”coc〇hsii@staff.pchome.com.tw, and the recipient 33 is miles@staff.pchome .com.tw etc. The examples of the flags in this embodiment are: whether the forwarding calculation is enabled flag 961: For example, Forwarding: yes' means to start the forwarding calculation function; if it is Forwardillg: No, it means not The forwarding calculation function is activated, or the absence of this flag means that the forwarding calculation function is not activated (such as the traditional method). Email identification code mark 9 6 2: F 〇rwarding-E mai 1 _ No: Pchome-message- 010315_l, this mark represents the e-mail 9 1 'to be forwarded. It is used to calculate the number of forwarded servers 1 0 (see below, see Figures 4 to 6) for management convenience. Calculate the number of forwarded servers mail address mark 9 6 3:

Forwarding-report: counting@counting.com, record The email address to which the e-mail of the forwarding report should be delivered. Step 2 Ο 4: Is forwarding calculation enabled? By checking whether the forwarding calculation is enabled flag 961 'In this embodiment, since the forwarding calculation whether the activation flag% ^ is Forwarding: yes, the forwarding calculation is to be started, and then proceed to step 2 0 5 step 2 0 5: For the procedure of forwarding this email to the recipient, please see steps 301 ~ 304 (please read the notes on the back before filling this page)

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V. Description of the invention (s) Please refer to Figures 3 to 5 for the following deductions: Step 30 1: Calculate the number of forwarded recipients. For the purpose of this embodiment (please refer to step 202), The number of those is 3. Step 302: Read the e-mail containing the mail address of the server that calculates the number of forwards. The private address is 9 6 3 and the e-mail identification code is 9 6 2. For the purpose of this embodiment, the counting® counting c is read. m and Forwarding-Email-N0: Pchome-meSSage-0 103 15]. Step 3 03: Generate an e-mail of the forwarding report. The e-mail contains the following information: the number of forwarded recipients, the e-mail identifier, and the server's e-mail address to calculate the number of forwards. The above embodiments are: 3, Pchome-message-0 103 15-1, counting® counting.com. The above information can be placed in the mail header, or some information such as the number of forwarded recipients and the e-mail identification code can be placed in the e-mail body of the forwarded report. . Step 3 04: Send the e-mail of the forwarding report. The e-mail of the forwarding report will therefore be sent to the mail address of the server that counts the number of forwards, which in this example is counting® counting.com ° This paper size Applicable to China National Standard (CNS) A4 specifications (210 X 297 ίθlove) (Please read the precautions on the back before filling out this page} -------- ading · -------- * Economy Printed by the Ministry of Intellectual Property Bureau's Consumer Cooperatives 518456 A7 V. Description of the Invention (7) Please refer to Figure 4 for the schematic diagram of the first embodiment of the application of the technology of the present invention, and Figure 4 uses the email of Figure 丨The schematic diagram of forwarding, that is, the sender 30 sends four emails to the recipient 3 1, 3 2, 3 3, 34, and the recipient 33 forwards the email to the recipient 33a, 33b, 33c 'and the recipient 34 forwarded this email to the recipients 34a, 34b, and the recipient 33c forwarded this email to the recipients 331, 332, 333, 334. The recipient 3 3, the recipient 34, and the recipient 33 have the action of forwarding, because Will send the e-mail of the forwarding report to the mail address of the server that calculates the number of forwards. For example, the e-mail that receives these forward reports is a calculated forward server 1G. Then the server 10 will calculate the number of forwards The number of counted forwards is sent to the sender 30. Taking the above embodiment as an example, the e-mail of the forward report is designated to c〇unting @ c〇unting.com, but the mail server c〇unUngc〇 m can also receive, so count the number of forwards server 丨 〇 As long as there is a way to read the counting ® countingeCm mail, for example, the mail server counting.com can be used to calculate the number of forwards server 1〇 , For example, a computer with a position of counting® counting cm can also be a server for counting the number of forwarding 1 °. Of course, the server 10 for counting the number of forwarding can also be the sender 30 itself, page line | The second embodiment of Fig. 5 is shown in the schematic diagram. The paper size of the printed paper, T-standard (CNS) A4 (210 X 297, B7) V. Description of the invention (~ About the hardware of the server that counts the number of different forwarding times 10芊 Composition. Calculate forwarding The number of figures is shown in the 6th basic structure. As a reminder, in the examples, a computer can also be used to calculate the number of forwarding times. The server has a processor of 60. ) Composition. Calculate the number of forwards 10 and server = storage device 1 4 (such as hard disks, memory, etc.), and use _ (Internet) communication interface 50 (such as the transfer of two books by Mao Ming) The mailing number server 10 can be mainly used to # receive "forwarding report emails", and ask J to use it to know the files, and enter the nose, so that the sender can know that the emails sent by him are forwarded Times. 14 includes e-mail ', # 置 主 程 切 η, Gan Erku 1 and forwarding frequency management 71, forwarding frequency management main program 70, including reading program = program 72, cumulative update program 73, and report program 杳; = 5: The functions of the database 41 of the number of forwarded e-mails and the number of forwarded times are as follows: Please-::: Refer to the main flow chart for calculating the number of forwards in the L7 chart in reference 7 and the monthly v. Cang test in the 7th to 8th chart. The following is Sai Xixiang a 7, for example. The example follows the above-mentioned implementation step 70 1: reading the e-mail of the forwarding report, which is completed by the reading program 71. Then ^ take the e-mail of the forwarding report sent by the recipient 33. And ^ 5 e-mails for forwarding reports include fins -------- order --------- line. (Please read the precautions on the back before filling out this page) Ministry of Economy Wisdom Number of Recipients printed by Qin Qiao 3's Consumer Cooperatives (proprietary and reported identifiers of forwarded emails (eg, Pchome_message-〇l〇3i5-l) 0

This paper size applies the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297 tolerance 518456 A7 V. Description of the invention (//) Step 702: Find and read the corresponding number of forwarding stops, this is retrieved by the search program 72 Done. The search program 72 follows the identification code of the e-mail (for example: Pchome-message-OMH ^ i) read in step 701, and goes to the number of e-mail forwarding database 41 to find the corresponding identification of the electronic material. 4 1 1, and read the corresponding forwarding number block 4 1 2 according to the identification code field 4 of the found email (for example:

Pchome-message — the number of inopsq forwards has now accumulated to “π times”. Step 703: Update the number of forwards recorded in the update forwards block, which is completed by the cumulative update program 73. It will also be read by the search mechanism. The number of forwards (for example: 65 77 times) is added to the number of forwarded recipient lines (for example: 3) read in step 701 to become the updated number of forwards recorded in the number of forwards field 412 (For example, · 65 8G times, because 65 77 + 3 = 65 8〇) The following steps can be taken in the manner of step 704 or step 705, or step 704 and step 705 at the same time. Step 704 of the consumption of employees of the Ministry of Intellectual Property Bureau · Report the number of forwards to the original email sender, which is completed by the reporting program 74. The data of the updated number of forwards (for example: 6580) recorded in the number of forwards block will be sent to the corresponding original email sender '(For example: Staff_news@staff.pch〇me c〇m tw), this step can be timed' for example, once every ten days; or according to set conditions

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518456 ι · A method of email forwarding frequency report, wherein the content of the forwarded email includes the following tags: Email identifier 軚 圮, and the server's mail address tag for calculating the number of forwards, the The method includes the following steps: accepting the execution order for forwarding the email; receiving the email address of the recipient of the forwarding; the procedure of forwarding the email to the recipient; and the procedure of performing the function of forwarding the number of times, The procedure includes the following steps: Counting the number of forwarded recipients; reading the email containing the server's mail address tag for counting the number of forwards; generating an email for a forwarding report, email for the forwarding report The content includes the number of forwarded recipients and the e-mail identifier, and the e-mail address of the e-mail report of the forward report is set to the e-mail address of the server that counts the number of forwards; and the e-mail that sent the forward report. 2 _ The method for reporting the number of times of email forwarding as described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the email identification code mark and the mail address mark of the server for calculating the number of forwarding times are in the mail header of the email (Mail header) section. 3 · The method of reporting the number of e-mails forwarded as described in item 1 of the scope of patent application ', where the e-mail identification code is marked and the number of forwarded times is calculated. The paper size is applicable to the Chinese National Standard (CNS) A4 specification (210 X 297) Worship) (Please read the notes on the back before filling out this page) Printed by the Consumer Cooperatives of the Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs -------- tr --------- ^-t --- ------------------- 518456 Six, the patent application scope number server mail address mark is in the body part of the email. 4. The number of times of email forwarding as described in item 丨 of the scope of patent application is stopped: Second, where the content of the email being forwarded further includes forwarding: whether to enable the flag, so that the number of times of forwarding is being sent The order of the functions is to first check whether the forwarding calculation is enabled or not, so as to implement the procedure of the forwarding number of times function. & FREE $ 5.-Computer-readable items' are used to generate reports on the number of e-mails, and the contents of the forwarded e-mail include the following tags: E-mail identification 碣 tags , And the mail address mark of the server that counts the number of forwards, in which the item γ records the code medium (medium), and the item includes the following code: The first program used to receive the forwarded e-mail Code order; second code address; third code sequence; fourth code; fifth code is used for receiving the email address of the forwarded recipient; and used for forwarding the email to the recipient The staff fee stamp is used to calculate the number of forwarded recipients; ^ Read the f-mail address containing the mail address mark of the server that calculates the number of forwards, and the sixth code, which is used to generate a humble mail- E-mail L !: The e-mail of the report. The content of the e-mail includes the number of forwarded recipients and the e-mail identification code, and the paper size of the e-mail report of the forwarded report shall be τ_ 家 standard ( CWSM4 Regulation 袼 ⑽χ 297. 6. The mailing address for the scope of the patent application is set to the mailing address of the server that calculates the number of forwards; The seventh code is used to send the email of the forwarded report. Describe the articles that can be read by the computer, where the e-mail identification code mark and the mail address mark of the server that counts the number of forwards are in the mail header (MaU header) part of the e-mail. 5 items that can be read by a computer, wherein the e-mail identification code mark and the mail address mark of the server for calculating the number of forwards are included in the content (B dy) of the e-mail. The computer-readable article as described in the fifth item, wherein the content of the forwarded email includes the forwarding calculation whether the activation flag is included, and the computer-readable article includes the eighth code. It is used to check whether the forwarding calculation is activated. 9 ·-A server for calculating the number of forwarding times, which is used to receive emails of multiple forwarding reports to count the original electronic data. Number of times the electronic sender of the sender was forwarded, where the email of the forward report includes the number of forwarders and the identifier of the reported forwarded email. The server for calculating the number of forwards includes: · (A) Storage device, where the storage device stores: E-mail forwarding: database of outstanding data, including the number of times of retransmission field and the identification of Shima block of e-mail, Frequency management program; (B) Communication interface for receiving multiple forwarding reports σ and e-mail; in the scope of applying for patents) server for executing the main program of forwarding frequency management to achieve the following mechanisms: , Used to read the e-mails of multiple forwarded reports received, including the number of forwarded recipients and the identification number of the eight forwarded e-mails reported; Get the ID of the email, go to the email forwarding database to find the matching ID field of the email, and read the pair according to the ID of the email you found. The number of forwards recorded in the Forwarding Counts block; and the cumulative update mechanism, which adds up the number of forwards read by the lookup mechanism and the number of forwarders read by the read mechanism to become a forward The number of renewed forwards recorded in the Posts block. The calculation as described in Section 10 = _ ^^ in Section 10 also includes the following mechanism ... Reporting mechanism that sends the updated forwarding materials recorded in the number of forwarding times to the corresponding original email sender. 11 · As described in item 9 of the scope of the patent application, the middle processor further includes a server that achieves the following ^ forwarding times server, its query mechanism, providing email forwarding sub-information for others to query. The king of the ten soaps or the department 12. The database of email forwarding times in the calculation of forwarding as described in item 9 of the scope of patent application is more inclusive, and its email address is blocked. # 更 " Include the original email sending specifications-297%) (Please read the notes on the back before filling this page) ^ --------- ^ 1 # ----