WO2001010089A1 - A method and system for electronic messaging - Google Patents
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- Figure 2 illustrates a representative general purpose computer server configuration.
- SMS Short Message Service
- the Short Message Service is the ability to send and receive text messages to and from mobile telephones.
- the text can comprise words or numbers or an alphanumeric combination. SMS was created as part of the GSM Phase 1 standard.
- the first short message is believed to have been sent in December 1992 from a Personal Computer (PC) to a mobile phone on the VodafoneTM GSM network in the UK.
- Each short message is up to 160 characters in length when Latin alphabets are used, and 70 characters in length when non- Latin alphabets such as Arabic and Chinese are used.
- GSM operators provide various services of the following types:
- Email Addition of a wireless Internet/mobile email service often follows, typically with the customer's mobile number becoming part of the email address they are allocated as part of the service. Emails sent to that address are forwarded as a short message to their wireless phone. Such a service tends to be popular with customers, especially in markets where Internet penetration is low and people don't already have an email address.
- the recipient receives an email account, whereas initially, he didn't have one.
- the Lucent patent referred to above discloses notifying someone by email about a message which requires the addressee to have an email address, whereas the current invention is about providing him with an email address so he can review a message already sent).
- Mail to SMS gateways discloses notifying someone by email about a message which requires the addressee to have an email address, whereas the current invention is about providing him with an email address so he can review a message already sent.
- Some existing systems permit the use of a number before an '@' sign in an address. Operators allow one to choose any number they like. In such systems users/receivers are allowed to register for themselves their mobile_number@provider.com.
- the system of the present invention is distinguishable because it puts the responsibility for the email account activation on the sender. Therefore every one in the addressing range become potentially reachable, not just those who have registered to the "provider.com" service.
- the invention has a method and apparatus for receiving an electronic message, from a sender on a system, to an addressee or recipient, and creating a universal email account on-the-fly for the recipient if the recipient is not already a user of the system (that is, if the recipient does not already have an email account on the system).
- the system contacts the recipient through his or her personal PCD, and the system gives the recipient an enabling key to his or her newly created email account.
- the intended recipient can access her her newly created email account by proving she is the rightful owner of the addressed phone, by means of a password/phrase, token, etc, sent to her phone by the system when it set up the new email account.
- the receiver can check his or her messages on the universal email account and set different options for mail retrieval and delivery.
- the electronic message sent can include 'rich messages' such as but not limited to drawings, faxes, sound files, and video files.
- a customer acquisition engine (addressees receiving the message are indeed 'acquired' as customers by the website operating the service); - turning mobile users into internet users (by giving them an email address);
- ISPs in the sense that the invention permits anyone with a GSM phone today to be receiving an email, or accessing a special account which was created by the sender on-the-fly.
- the invention is a system having at least one mail-server that stores electronic mail and attachments sent by users.
- the invention also has a user information database that stores information such as but not limited to log-on information, user names, user passwords, and language translation data, and user options.
- a user of the system can send an electronic message to a recipient without knowing if the recipient has an email account or an email address.
- the user uses a recipient ' s number on a personal communication device (PCD) and sends the email to an email address composed of the recipient's PCD number and a winbox domain that resoves into a server on the system.
- This PCD number can be from a personal communication device such as but not limited to a GSM, a PCS phone, or a text pager WAP phone, Internet enabled phone, etc.
- the invention has a process and apparatus whereby user A, knowing the existence of, and PCD number of a recipient B, can send recipient B an electronic message without knowing whether B has an email account.
- user A connects to the Internet via any means, such as but not limited to through an internet service provider (ISP) and connects to the Winbox website at www.winbox.com.
- ISP internet service provider
- User A may also use any mail client, such as Eudora.
- User A logs into an account at Winbox and sends an electronic message to recipient B to an email address comprising the recipient
- the email address of user A's electronic message to recipient B can be of the form 'X@winbox.com', where 'X' is a PCD number for recipient B, such as a normal wireline phone number , a digital cellular number , a GSM, a PCS phone, a text pager number, or WAP phone number , etc.
- the 'X * can include a prefix having a country code, such as « 1 » for the U.S.
- the receiver number is checked to see if the intended recipient has indicated to the system that she does not want any such messages 617 and if so 619 the system generates a message to the sender and exits 614. If the intended recipient will accept messages 621 the system checks to see if the sender is a known spammer or if this message has been received more that a designated number of times 622. If so 623, the system exits 614. If the spam check indicates no spam 625 the country code is checked and any language translations that are necessary are made 627 and a message status is sent to the sender 629. Further processing of the sender's message is now described with reference again to Figure 4.
- the electronic message sent by user A arrives at the mail server.
- the number 'X' in the email address is extracted by the mail server and is compared to a user PCD number database in the system to determine if the recipient has an email account 405.
- the enabling notice is a short textual message and is sent to the addressee's PCD number 415.
- the enabling notice contains the random password generated by the system.
- the enabling notice notifies the addressee that an email account has been created and contains the unique password.
- the unique password can be limited to lower case alphabetic characters so as to facilitate retrieval from different clients, such as but not limited to a telephone.
- This short textual message can be SMS when using a GSM standard.
- the process then exits 450.
- the preferred embodiment contains various components that make sense of most of these cases (e.g. '00' is a common international prefix in Europe, whereas in the US it is 'Oi l ', etc.).
- Routines try to adjust or compensate, for the benefit of a sender not aware of the change and still sending against the former numbering scheme.
- the preferred embodiment would then send a follow-on SMS message with more information regarding the situation , and the syntax for options to go further.
- the addressee receives only the sender and the subject of the email (and even so, the subject might very well be truncated to accommodate the 160-character limit.)
- the recipient may be told (in the help message or the first message) to reply with a 'N' (for example) to get to the Next 'page ' of 160 characters. In that way, the recipient can check that the message sent to him is worth reading, and can choose to read it little by little or can read the entire message by logging on the web.
- the present invention opens the whole number range to email addressing, there is a likelihood that people will use it as a way to 'spam' people with unsolicited emails. In a prefe ⁇ ed embodiment this may be treated in several ways.
- the prefe ⁇ ed embodiment can leverage being the only 'entry point' for all messages consisting of ⁇ «y_number @domain.
- the 'key' is transmitted through SMS, which is much harder to intercept.
- recipient B after logging in, can check his or her email account and setup options for future uses, such as creating a more friendly login name and changing his or her password.
- additional enabling notices can be sent to recipient B should the recipient not login to the system. These additional enabling notices can be sent at increasing or decreasing frequencies to recipient B based upon system defaults or options and preferences chosen by user A.
- a sender of an electronic message may attach various forms of data to the electronic message, including but not limited to data files, images, sound files, and programs. This data can appear in the electronic message itself or as an attachment.
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