KR20000063801A - Apparatus and Method for connecting and serving a email using wireless terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An e-mail connection and service apparatus using a wireless terminal and a method thereof are provided to receive any e-mail, attached file and image file, and supply comfortable business environment. CONSTITUTION: An e-mail connection and service apparatus comprises; a HTTP proxy module(610) that analyzes the received connection demand from the wireless terminal; an e-mail server interface manager(613) that receives the analyzed message and decides to connect mail server or not; an e-mail server access agent(615) that connects the mail server and connects to the database that saves the e-mail using protocol; database agent(616) that connects the e-mail of mail server and connects to the database that saves e-mail using protocol; an inside format manager that converts the transferred e-mail into the defined format; a file converter that converts the e-mail into the format that the wireless terminal can find out and transfers to the wireless terminal through the network(300).

Description

Apparatus and Method for connecting and serving a email using wireless terminal}

The present invention relates to an e-mail access and service apparatus and method using a wireless terminal, and more particularly, the e-mail and the attached file and picture file of the e-mail required by the user even when the wireless terminal user is in transit or in a state where wired communication is impossible. The present invention relates to an e-mail access and service apparatus and a method for allowing a user to directly receive a wireless terminal of a user, thereby enabling business processing without being restricted to a place and surrounding conditions.

In general, in order to perform an email service using the wired Internet, a computer must be used to access an e-mail account. An internet e-mail service using a wireless terminal is limited to a computer environment connected to the Internet network and an e-mail format available on the wireless terminal. The service can only be used by web servers and email accounts with limited formats. Therefore, in order to view the e-mail of the Internet e-mail server, a computer with a wired Internet network must be used to access the Internet e-mail server. In addition, if the user wants to view the e-mail of the Internet mail server by the wireless terminal, the user inputs the address of the web site where the e-mail to be viewed by the wireless terminal is connected to the Internet.

Web sites that only provide wireless Internet e-mail will only see e-mail formatted for each wireless device. In other words, when a web site having a wireless internet e-mail account is input to a wireless terminal and connected, the web server having a wireless internet e-mail recognizes it and delivers the corresponding e-mail back to the wireless terminal. After the user accesses the wireless Internet server through the wireless terminal and checks the corresponding email, the user ends the wireless internet.

However, such a method for viewing e-mail of a general Internet e-mail server causes the following problems.

In order to view e-mails from the Internet mail server through the Internet, a computer with an Internet network must be connected to the Internet mail server. When using a wireless terminal, users cannot access and use various mail servers. If you have multiple e-mail accounts, you will not receive any e-mails, and you will not be able to see the contents and picture files of the e-mails even when you connect to a specific mail server.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and the present invention provides an e-mail connection using a wireless terminal that allows any wireless email to be viewed on the wireless terminal as well as a fixed e-mail account provided to a user who owns the wireless terminal. Its purpose is to provide a service apparatus and method.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for accessing an email and a service using a wireless terminal, which makes a user's work environment convenient by allowing an attached file and a picture file attached to an email to be viewed through a user's wireless terminal.

1 is a block diagram of an email access and service apparatus using a wireless terminal according to the present invention;

2 is an embodiment of a mail server of an email access and service apparatus using a wireless terminal according to the present invention;

3 is a message flow diagram for confirming an email, an attached file and a picture file in a wireless terminal of an email access and service apparatus using a wireless terminal according to the present invention;

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

600: secondary email server 610: HTTP proxy module

611: File Converter 612: Internal Format Manager

613: Email Server Interface Manager

614: alarm manager 615: email server access agent

616: DB Agent 617: Task Manager

618: Traffic Manager 619: Load Balance Controller

620: Road Manager

A feature of the present invention for achieving the above object is, in the e-mail connection and service device that can receive e-mail, attachments and picture files to the user's wireless terminal, receiving and analyzing the connection request from the wireless terminal HTTP proxy module; An email server interface manager for selecting whether to connect to a mail server by receiving an analysis message analyzed by the HTTP proxy module; An email server access agent which accesses the mail server selected by the email server interface manager and connects to a database storing email using a predetermined protocol; A database agent accessing an email of the mail server selected by the email server interface manager and accessing a database storing email using a predetermined protocol; An internal format manager, when the email server interface manager and the database agent import emails of the mail server, converting different email formats of delivered emails into internal defined formats; A file converter for changing an email converted from the internal format manager to an internal format into a format that can be recognized by the wireless terminal; It includes an HTTP proxy module for transmitting to the wireless terminal through the Internet network.

On the other hand, the alarm manager for notifying whether or not the operation of the respective configuration means; A task manager for controlling and managing each of the configuration means; A load balance controller suitable for redistributing when there is a large demand from the wireless terminal; A traffic manager that manages traffic on demand from the wireless terminal and records the necessary information for the user; It further comprises a log manager for leaving a log of the matters that occur in each of the configuration means used when necessary.

According to another aspect of the present invention, in an email access and service method for receiving an email, an attachment, and a picture file from a user's wireless terminal, the user may request an email, attachment, and picture file from the wireless terminal. A first step of the mail server sending a short message to the wireless network system for viewing; A second step of informing the mail server that the short message is recognized after performing the first step; A third step of informing the wireless network system that the short message DPP is recognized when the wireless network system transmits a short message DPP to the wireless terminal after performing the second process; A fourth step of accessing a predetermined Internet site to a secondary e-mail server to view an e-mail required by the user in the wireless terminal after performing the third step; A fifth step of, after performing the fourth process, when the secondary email server requests user information from the wireless terminal, the wireless terminal responds to the secondary email server with user information; A sixth step of, after performing the fifth step, the secondary email server authenticates user information with a mail server, and verifies user information by withdrawing the mail of the database; And a seventh process of converting the e-mail transmitted by the secondary e-mail server to the wireless terminal after the sixth process is converted into a format that the wireless terminal can know and transmitting the e-mail to the wireless terminal.

On the other hand, in the seventh process, the e-mail, attachment files and picture files transmitted to the wireless terminal is characterized in that only the amount that can be seen by the wireless terminal at a time and the rest are stored in the secondary email server.

Meanwhile, in the seventh process, one email, an attached file, and a picture file are divided and transmitted to the wireless terminal by an amount that can be accommodated by the wireless terminal, and the contents of the corresponding email, attached file, and picture file are transmitted to the wireless terminal. In addition, if there is a request to send the contents of the e-mails, attachments and picture files which have been continued to the wireless terminal, the process of sending the e-mails, attachments and picture files as much as the wireless terminal can accommodate is further provided. It is characterized by including.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an e-mail access and service method for receiving e-mails, attachments, and picture files stored in an e-mail system and a computer by a user's wireless terminal, wherein the connection request from the wireless terminal is transmitted to the HTTP proxy module. A first step of receiving and analyzing and sending an analysis message to an email server interface manager; After receiving the analysis message in the first step, the email server interface manager selects whether to access the email system, and stores the email and the attached file using a predetermined protocol through each email server access agent and database agent. A second process of connecting to a server; A third step of delivering the email, the attached file, and the picture file to the internal format manager when the email server interface manager obtains the email, the attached file, and the picture file of the mail server after accessing the mail server in the second step; process; A fourth step of, after performing the third process, the internal format manager converts different email and attachment file formats and picture files of delivered email, attachment and picture files into internal defined formats; A fifth step of converting an email, an attached file, and a picture file changed into an internal format in a fourth process into a format that can be recognized by the wireless terminal in a file converter, and then transmitting the same to a wireless terminal through an internet network; And after performing the fifth process, when the user finishes receiving the email, the attached file, and the picture file by using the wireless terminal, the HTTP proxy module detects the connection and terminates the connection, and sends the email to the wireless terminal. It includes the sixth process of deleting the attached file and the picture file and waiting for the next request message.

Meanwhile, in the third process, the email, the attached file and the picture file obtained through the email server interface manager are stored in the wireless data converting means and are separated and transmitted only as much as can be sent to the wireless terminal.

Meanwhile, in the fifth process, the file converter changes the e-mail, attachment, and picture file obtained from the mail server into a format such as WML, HDML, CHTML, SHTML, MHTML, WBMP, etc. that can be recognized by the wireless terminal. It features.

Meanwhile, in the fifth process, the file converter changes the format to a format that the wireless terminal can recognize so that the attached file attached to the e-mail obtained from the mail server can be stored in a sub folder of the corresponding cache folder. It is done.

On the other hand, the attached file is classified into a format such as MS Word, HWP, Hunminjeongeum, Combination, Completion, Unicode, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. characterized in that the conversion in the secondary e-mail server so that the wireless terminal can recognize it. .

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. First, in adding reference numerals to the components of each drawing, it should be noted that the same reference numerals are denoted by the same reference numerals as much as possible even if displayed on the other drawings.

1 is a configuration diagram of an email access and service apparatus using a wireless terminal according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is an embodiment of a mail server of an email access and service apparatus using a wireless terminal according to the present invention.

1 and 2, the present invention comprises a wireless terminal 100, a wireless network system 200, the Internet network 300, a mail server 400, a database 500 and an auxiliary email server 600. .

Wireless network system 200 comprises a wired and wireless connection means 210, the secondary email server 600 is an HTTP proxy module 610, file converter 611, internal format manager 612, email Server Interface Manager 613, Alarm Manager 614, Email Server Access Agent 615, Database (DB) Agent 616, Task Manager 617, Traffic Manager 618, Load Balance Controller 619, and Load It consists of a manager 620.

In detail, in order to view various e-mails required by the user through the wireless terminal 100, the HTTP proxy module 610 of the secondary e-mail server 600 requests a connection request from the wireless terminal 100 in a wireless network system. Received via 200, and the received connection request is analyzed. The email server interface manager 613 selects whether to connect an email system (not shown) by receiving the analysis message analyzed by the HTTP proxy module 610.

The e-mail server access agent 615 accesses the e-mail system selected by the e-mail server interface manager 613 and connects to the e-mail server 400 that stores e-mails, attachments, and picture files using a predetermined protocol. In addition, the database agent 616 connects to the mail server 400 and the database 500 selected by the email server interface manager 613 to bring an email, an attached file, and a picture file using a predetermined protocol.

The internal format manager 612 determines that the email server interface manager 613 and the database agent 616 import emails, attachments, and picture files of the email system and computer, and then send different emails of the forwarded emails, attachments, and picture files. The file converter 611 changes the format into an internally defined format, and the file converter 611 changes the e-mail, attachment, and picture file converted from the internal format manager 612 into the internal format into a format that the wireless terminal 100 can recognize. Then it is transmitted to the wireless terminal 100 through the Internet network (300). The file converter 611 is a format such as WML, HDML, CHTML, SHTML, MHTML, WBMP, etc., in which the wireless terminal 100 can recognize e-mails, attachments, and picture files obtained from the database 500 or the mail server 400. Change to WML (Wireless Application Language) is a protocol suitable for the Internet and mobile communication for application services operated through a mobile communication network, and HDML (Handheld Device Markup Language) is a method of interacting with a user such as a mobile phone or a PDA. A set of commands and statements that you define. CHTML, SHTML, and MHTML are a kind of x-HTML, a wireless internet language. CHTML is a language adopted by Japan NTT Tomoko. SHTML is a language developed by Samsung Electronics and A-Net. It is a language developed by this initiative.

In addition, the file converter 611, if there is an attachment attached to the e-mail obtained from the mail server 400, the file converter 611 changes to a format that can be stored in the subfolder of the cache folder, the attached file is MS Word, HWP, Hunminjeongeum, combination, complete, Unicode, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. are converted into a format that can be recognized by the wireless terminal 100.

On the other hand, the alarm manager 614 informs whether each configuration means abnormal operation, the task manager 617 controls and manages each configuration means. The load balance controller 619 appropriately redistributes when there are many requests from the wireless terminal 100, manages traffic on demand from the wireless terminal 100, and records the necessary information for the user. The log manager 620 leaves a log of matters generated by each configuration means and uses it when necessary.

3 is a message flow diagram for confirming an email, an attached file and a picture file in a wireless terminal of an email access and service apparatus using a wireless terminal according to the present invention.

In FIG. 3, when the mail server 400 sends a short message to the wireless network system 200 to view an email, an attached file, and a picture file to the wireless terminal 100, the wireless network system 200 displays a short message. Notify the mail server 400 that the recognition.

At this time, when the wireless network system 200 transmits the short message delivery point DPP (Delivery Point to Point) to the wireless terminal 100, the wireless terminal 100 notifies the wireless network system 200 again that the short message DPP is recognized and wirelessly. The terminal 100 accesses an Internet site (for example, http: // wms /) to the secondary email server 600 in order to view an email and an attached file that the user needs.

When the Internet site is connected to the secondary email server 600 and the secondary email server 600 requests user information such as a user name and a password from the wireless terminal 100, the wireless terminal 100 transmits to the secondary email server 600. Answer the user information.

On the other hand, if the secondary email server 600 authenticates the user information to the mail server 400, and confirms the user information to withdraw the e-mail, attachments and picture files of the mail to the database 500, the secondary email server 600 converts an email, an attached file, and a picture file transmitted to the wireless terminal 100 into a format that the wireless terminal 100 can understand (for example, Html to WML) and then transmits the wireless terminal 100 to the wireless terminal 100. do. At this time, the e-mail, attachments, and picture files transmitted to the wireless terminal 100 are transmitted only as much as the wireless terminal 100 can see at a time, and the rest are stored in the secondary email server 600.

In addition, when there are e-mails, attachments, and picture files required by the user while all the e-mails, attachments, and picture files have been transmitted to the wireless terminal 100, the wireless terminal 100 receives the corresponding e-mails, attachments, and picture files. When the request is sent to the secondary email server 600 as much as the wireless terminal 100 can accommodate the email, attachments and picture files.

As described above, in the detailed description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be defined by the claims below and equivalents thereof.

As a result, according to the email access and service apparatus and method using a wireless terminal according to the present invention the following advantages occur.

That is, the wireless terminal user can receive arbitrary emails, attachments, and picture files as well as the use of the e-mail available on the existing wired Internet, and the service provider performs the e-mail service modified to the format suitable for the user's wireless terminal. This provides a convenient office environment for wireless terminal users.

Claims (10)

In the e-mail access and service device that can receive e-mail, attachments and picture files to the user's wireless terminal, An HTTP proxy module for receiving and analyzing a connection request from the wireless terminal; An email server interface manager for selecting whether to access a mail server by receiving an analysis message analyzed by the HTTP proxy module; An email server access agent which accesses the mail server selected by the email server interface manager and connects to a database storing email using a predetermined protocol; A database agent accessing an email of the mail server selected by the email server interface manager and accessing a database storing email using a predetermined protocol; An internal format manager, when the email server interface manager and the database agent bring emails from the mail server, converting different email formats of delivered emails into internal defined formats; And And a file converter for converting the e-mail changed from the internal format manager to an internal format into a format that can be recognized by the wireless terminal, and then transmitting the file to the wireless terminal through an internet network. Service device. The method of claim 1, An alarm manager for notifying whether each of the configuration means is abnormally operated; A task manager for controlling and managing each of the configuration means; A load balance controller suitable for redistributing when there is a large demand from the wireless terminal; A traffic manager that manages traffic on demand from the wireless terminal and records the necessary information for the user; And And a log manager for leaving a log of matters generated by the configuration means and using the log manager if necessary. In the email access and service method to view the e-mail or receive attachments and picture files on the user's wireless terminal, A first step of sending, by the mail server, a short message to a wireless network system to view an e-mail, an attached file, and a picture file that the user needs in the wireless terminal; A second step of informing the mail server that the short message is recognized after performing the first step; A third step of informing the wireless network system that the short message DPP is recognized when the wireless network system transmits a short message DPP to the wireless terminal after performing the second process; A fourth step of accessing a predetermined Internet site to a secondary e-mail server to view an e-mail, an attached file, and a picture file required by the user in the wireless terminal after performing the third step; A fifth step of, if the secondary email server requests user information from the wireless terminal after performing the fourth process, the wireless terminal responds to the secondary email server with user information; After performing the fifth process, the secondary email server authenticates user information to a mail server or a database, and authenticates the user information to withdraw and respond to the database by e-mail, attachment, and picture file. ; And A seventh process of converting an email, an attached file, and a picture file transmitted by the secondary email server to the wireless terminal after performing the sixth process into a format that can be known by the wireless terminal; Email access and service method using a wireless terminal, characterized in that. The method of claim 3, wherein In the seventh process, the e-mail and the attachment file transmitted to the wireless terminal are transmitted only as much as the wireless terminal can see at a time, and the rest are stored in the secondary email server. . The method of claim 3, wherein In the seventh process, one e-mail, an attached file and a picture file are divided and transmitted to the wireless terminal in an amount that can be accommodated by the wireless terminal. If there is, requesting to send the contents of the e-mail, attachment and picture file continued to the wireless terminal, further comprising sending the e-mail, attachment and picture file in an amount that the wireless terminal can accommodate. Email access and service method using a wireless terminal, characterized in that. In the email access and service method that can receive e-mail, attachments and picture files stored in the e-mail system and database by the user's wireless terminal, A first step of receiving a connection request from the wireless terminal in an HTTP proxy module, analyzing and sending an analysis message to an email server interface manager; The e-mail server interface manager receiving the analysis message in the first step selects whether to access the e-mail system, and then stores the e-mail using a predetermined protocol through each e-mail server access agent and database agent. Connecting the second process; A third step of forwarding the e-mail, attachment and picture file to the internal format manager when the e-mail server interface manager obtains the e-mail, attachment and picture file of the e-mail system after accessing the mail server in the second step; process; A fourth step of, after performing the third process, the internal format manager converts different email, attachment and picture file formats of delivered email, attachment and picture files into internal defined formats; A fifth step of converting an email, an attached file, and a picture file changed into an internal format in a fourth process into a format that can be recognized by the wireless terminal in a file converter, and then transmitting the same to a wireless terminal through an internet network; And After performing the fifth process, when the user finishes receiving the e-mail, the attachment and the picture file by using the wireless terminal, the HTTP proxy module detects and disconnects the e-mail and the attachment to the wireless terminal. And a sixth process of deleting files and picture files and waiting for a next request message. The method of claim 6, In the third process, the email, the attached file and the picture file obtained through the email server interface manager are stored in the wireless data converting means and are separated and transmitted only as much as can be sent to the wireless terminal. How to access and service your email. The method of claim 6, In the fifth process, the file converter converts an email, an attached file, and a picture file obtained from the mail server into formats such as WML, HDML, CHTML, SHTML, HTML, and WBMP that can be recognized by the wireless terminal. Email access and service method using a wireless terminal. The method of claim 6, In the fifth process, the file converter changes the format to be recognized by the wireless terminal so that the e-mail obtained from the mail server can be stored in a subfolder of the corresponding cache folder when there is an attachment. Email access and service method using. The method of claim 6, The e-mail and the attached file are classified into a format such as MS Word, HWP, Hunminjeongeum, Combination, Complete, Unicode, Excel, PowerPoint, etc., and converted by the secondary e-mail server so that the wireless terminal can recognize the wireless terminal. Email access and service method using.