KR20040020694A - Method and system of providing web-contents to a mobile by using E-mail - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method and system for providing a Web contents mobile phone using an E-mail are provided to provide diverse contents acquired from various Web sites to a person who desires to have the information through a mobile phone on a real time basis. CONSTITUTION: It is checked whether an E-mail is received from a Web site which has a mobile phone function sending function(S302). If an E-mail is received, the E-mail is analyzed(S304). It is determined whether the received E-mail is valid through analysis of the E-mail(S306). If the E-mail is valid, a phone page corresponding to a mail form is generated(S308). A callback URL allowing access to the phone page is provided to a mobile phone number of a recipient included in the E-mail(S310). It is determined whether the recipient accesses the phone page through connection(S312). If the recipient accesses the phone page, data of the corresponding phone page is provided(S314) and charging information according to connection of the phone page is recorded(S316).

Description

Method and system for providing web content mobile phone using e-mail {Method and system of providing web-contents to a mobile by using E-mail}

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing a web content mobile phone using e-mail. In particular, various types of content existing in various websites are delivered to the server of the present invention in the form of an e-mail through a mobile phone sending function of the website. The server reconfigures the web content of the text, image, movie, and music delivered in a preset manner into a phone page that the user can receive through the mobile phone, and then delivers the address of the phone page to the mobile phone user. To provide a web content mobile phone providing method and system using an e-mail that can be viewed on a mobile phone.

At present, numerous Internet websites offer a great variety of content.

Such web content may be divided into text-based content, image-based content, music-based content, and video-based content such as movies. In the past, text-based contents have become mainstream due to transmission speed problems, but now multimedia-based contents are increasing due to the spread of high-speed Internet networks.

Representative of the text-based content is the content of newspapers. Newspapers provide hundreds of new articles to readers every day, both on paper and on the web.

Unlike newspaper pages, readers who face articles through the website can use various services provided by the newspaper website. A service provided for each article (currently provided by most newspapers) that allows you to store articles on your PC, print services for printing articles, and e-mail articles to others. One article that provides e-mail service is that.

In particular, the e-mail providing service of the above-mentioned article is a service that allows the person who read the article to deliver the article by mail to the person who feels that the article is needed. However, if you want to deliver an article by e-mail, you need to know the recipient's e-mail address, and even if you know the e-mail address and provide the content, if the person who received it does not open the mail or opens it later, Delivery was an impossible problem.

In particular, if most people have mobile phones and want to deliver important articles in real time, such as these days, the way to deliver the articles that you have read on your mobile phone to other people is to call your mobile phone. There is a way to read such articles by walking, and a method of summarizing the contents through a short text message (usually around 40 characters), which has a problem in that the contents of the article cannot be accurately conveyed.

Until now, there is no known method and system for providing web contents using an e-mail to a mobile phone according to the present invention.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above problems, the main object of the present invention is a web content using an e-mail that can provide a variety of content obtained from a variety of websites in real time on a mobile phone to those who need the information It is to provide a method and system.

1 is a view schematically showing the environment of a web content mobile phone providing system using e-mail according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a mobile phone providing procedure of text-based (newspaper content) web content among web contents performed in the web content mobile phone providing system using the electronic mail of FIG.

3 is a flowchart of a method for providing a web content mobile phone using an e-mail performed by a web content mobile phone providing server using the e-mail of FIG.

♣ Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawing ♣

100: web content mobile phone providing system using e-mail

110: web content mobile phone providing server using e-mail

120: email DB 130: mail format DB

140: wired and wireless network 150: website

160: user 210, 212: website window

214: email format 218, 220: mobile phone screen

An object of the present invention is to provide a content of a website to a recipient's wireless communication device by using an e-mail, and to receive the website content in a preset e-mail format. Constructing a phone page to which the wireless communication device can access content of a website transmitted in a format; providing an address of the phone page to the wireless communication device of the receiver; Determining whether to connect, and if the receiver connects to the phone page, providing the contents of the phone page to the wireless communication device. Is achieved. Here, when the receiver connects to the phone page, the method may further include recording charging information on the use of the contents of the receiver.

The content of the website can be applied to all text-based content, image-based content, music-based content, video-based content.

On the other hand, the format of the e-mail delivers a predetermined destination e-mail address for receiving the e-mail, a preset source e-mail address for providing the contents of the website, a number of the wireless communication device of the receiver for receiving the content, and contents. The forwarder's mobile phone number, the forwarder's message to be limited to a predetermined size, and the content of the website.

Meanwhile, another object of the present invention is to provide a content of a website to a recipient's wireless communication device by using an e-mail, and means for receiving the website content in a preset e-mail format, Means for constructing a phone page to which the wireless communication device can access content of a website transmitted in a mail format; means for providing an address of the phone page to the receiver's wireless communication device; Means for determining whether to connect to the phone page and means for providing the contents of the phone page to the wireless communication device when the receiver connects to the phone page. Is achieved. Here, when the receiver connects to the phone page, the receiver may further include means for recording charging information on the use of the contents of the receiver.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail the present invention.

1 is a view schematically showing the environment of a web content mobile phone providing system using e-mail according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the web content mobile phone providing system 100 using e-mail according to the present invention is connected to a plurality of websites 100 through a wired / wireless communication network 140. A number of users 160 connect to website 150 using personal computers (PCs) 162 and 166 and personal wireless communication devices 164 and 168 such as mobile phones and PDAs. Currently there are no websites that allow users to access personal computers (PCs) 162, 166 and personal wireless communication devices (164, 168), such as mobile phones and PDAs, with the exception of a few websites. (162, 166) to access the website.

Many users access the website 150 through personal computers (PCs) 162 and 166 to obtain various information through various contents. At this time, when you want to provide the information obtained by the mobile phone to the other person, the website (if the mobile phone delivery function is assumed) using the mobile phone delivery function to transfer the information obtained by the other person.

Web content mobile phone providing system 100 using e-mail, when the user (forwarder) uses the function to send the information taken by the user to the other user (recipient) to the mobile phone, the content that the forwarder wants to send from the website. Mail receiving web content mobile phone providing server 110 for performing a web content mobile phone providing method using an e-mail according to the present invention to receive it as an e-mail in a preset format to be viewed by the mobile phone, and this server An e-mail database (DB) 120 connected to 110 for storing e-mail provided from the website 150, and a web for knowing which website the pre-set and received e-mail was provided from Information about the site ID and what format the content will be pre-configured from, Including the Mail Format database (DB) that contains the information. The e-mail database 120 includes at least information on the sender's mobile phone number, the receiver's mobile phone number, the website on which the e-mail was sent, and the contents of the forwarder's contents. In addition, information on the phone page in which the corresponding e-mail is automatically converted and stored is included. Here, the wired / wireless communication network 140 in which data transmission and reception between the web content mobile phone providing system 100, the website 150, and the user 160 using the e-mail is currently established and operated, and the main idea of the present invention is The detailed description is omitted.

Hereinafter, a web content mobile phone providing method using e-mail performed by the web content mobile phone providing server 110 using the e-mail of FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3.

2 illustrates one embodiment of the present invention through a newspaper website providing text-oriented information among various websites. As shown in Fig. 2, two windows 210 and 212 are displayed in the <A Newspaper Web site>, and the window 210 on the left side shows the contents of one article, and the window on the right side ( 212) is a window that is newly created when the user clicks on "mobile phone" in the processing button (for example, save, mail, print, mobile phone) provided for each article in the window 210 on the left side. The forwarder can click on the "mobile phone" at the top of the window 210 on the left side when the article contents of the window 210 are to be delivered to the mobile phone of a specific person. Then, the window 212 on the right side is created, where the mobile phone number of the recipient to receive the content, the mobile phone number of the forwarder who wants to deliver the content, and the words to be delivered by the person who wants to deliver the content are written. And press the "Send" button.

The content recorded in the window 212 on the right is reconstructed into a preset format 214 that can be recognized by the system according to the invention of FIG. 1 as follows. That is, a predetermined destination e-mail address, A for delivering an e-mail to the server 110 in order to send an e-mail to the server 110 of the system according to the present invention from the A newspaper company server in which the A newspaper company operates. Pre-set source e-mail address to indicate that it is a newspaper site, the recipient's mobile number entered by the forwarder, the forwarder's mobile number, the content to be delivered and the content that the forwarder is trying to deliver (newspaper article). Here, the preset source e-mail address may include information on the type of content currently being sent. That is, it may indicate whether the content is text, an image, a video, music, or the like. The e-mail address is pre-configured and used repeatedly in the system, so unlike long-lived e-mail addresses it may be any length.

As shown in the figure, the e-mail changed to the e-mail format used in the A newspaper company server is delivered to the web content mobile phone providing server 110 using the e-mail of the present invention through a conventional wired / wireless communication network. As a main function performed by the web content mobile phone providing server 110 using the e-mail of the present invention, the received e-mail is analyzed to analyze whether it is a preset mail format, and when the mail is a preset format, the received e-mail is received. It configures the phone page corresponding to, and provides the callback URL, which is the address of the phone page, to the receiver's mobile phone so that the phone page can be viewed by the receiver's mobile phone through the wire / wireless communication network. If the receiver links a callback URL, the fact is recorded and the record can be used as billing information. The screen A 218 of the receiver's mobile phone screen shown in the lower left of FIG. 2 is a screen for receiving information on the callback URL, and the other screen B 220 connects the phone page to the phone page through the "connection". This is a screen to see what the forwarder wanted to show.

The example shown in FIG. 2 is merely an example of a text-based website among various websites for convenience of explanation, and it is easy to understand that information on images, videos, and music can be transmitted to a mobile phone through this method. Can be.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a web content mobile phone providing method using e-mail performed by the web content mobile phone providing server 110 using the e-mail shown in FIG. 1. As shown in FIG. 3, first, it is determined whether an e-mail is received from a website to which a mobile phone function sending function is added in advance (S302). When the e-mail is received in step S302, the e-mail is analyzed (S304). Analysis of the e-mail is performed using the ID and content format of the website stored in the mail format database 130 of FIG. It is determined whether the received e-mail is valid through analysis of the e-mail performed in step S304 (S306). If the e-mail is valid in step S306, that is, if the e-mail is received in a preset e-mail format from a website having a mobile phone delivering function, a phone page corresponding to the e-mail format is generated (S308). Next, a callback URL for accessing the phone page is provided to the recipient mobile phone number included in the e-mail (S310).

Subsequently, it is determined whether the receiver accesses the phone page through the connection (S312). When the receiver connects, the receiver provides the data of the corresponding phone page (S314) and records charging information according to the connection of the phone page (S316). If no connection is made in step S312, this process ends.

In the present invention, the website has been described mainly on the site for providing the content, but if there is a specialized site to send a long mail to the mobile phone, the e-mail of the site can be processed. In other words, it is possible that the forwarder does not want to convey the information of the existing website, but also the case that he wants to convey the long information that he made. At this time, the information made by the forwarder will be the content of the aforementioned website.

As can be seen from the above description, the following are achieved by using the web content mobile phone providing system using e-mail according to the present invention. First, if someone reads a newspaper article through a newspaper website and tells the article, the newspaper article of the sender can be read through the person's mobile phone. In addition, if you send the newspaper article to his cell phone number, you will be able to see the newspaper article through your cell phone. In addition, if the image is not text, the image can be seen, in the case of a movie can be seen a movie, in the case of music, it can also listen to music.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to one embodiment shown in the drawings, this is merely exemplary, and it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible. Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention will be defined by the appended claims.

Claims (8)

It is for the forwarder to provide the contents of the website to the receiver's wireless communication device using e-mail. Receiving the website content in a preset e-mail format; Constructing a phone page to which the wireless communication device can access contents of a website transmitted in the electronic mail format; Providing the address of the phone page to the receiver's wireless communication device; Determining whether the receiver connects to the phone page; And providing the contents of the phone page to the wireless communication device when the receiver connects to the phone page. The method of claim 1, And when the receiver connects to the phone page, recording the charging information on the use of the contents of the receiver. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The content of the website is a text-based content, image-based content, music-based content, video-based content mobile phone providing method of the website using the e-mail content. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The format of the e-mail includes a preset destination e-mail address for receiving e-mail, a preset source e-mail address for providing contents of a website, a number of a wireless communication device of a receiver for receiving content, and a forwarder for delivering content. Method of providing a mobile phone content of a website using an e-mail, including a mobile phone number, the forwarding words of the forwarder limited to a predetermined size and the content of the website. It is for the forwarder to provide the contents of the website to the receiver's wireless communication device using e-mail. Means for receiving the website content in a predetermined electronic mail format; Means for constructing a phone page to which the wireless communication device can access content of a website transmitted in the electronic mail format; Means for providing an address of the phone page to the recipient's wireless communication device; Means for determining if the recipient is connecting to the phone page; And a means for providing contents of the phone page to the wireless communication device when the receiver connects to the phone page. The method of claim 5, And a means for recording charging information on the use of the content of the receiver when the receiver connects to the phone page. The method according to claim 5 or 6, The content of the website is a text-based content, image-based content, music-based content, video-based content mobile phone providing system of the website using the e-mail content. The method according to claim 5 or 6, The format of the e-mail includes a preset destination e-mail address for receiving e-mail, a preset source e-mail address for providing contents of a website, a number of a wireless communication device of a receiver for receiving content, and a forwarder for delivering content. The mobile phone providing system of the contents of the website using the e-mail, including the mobile number, the forwarding words of the forwarder limited to a predetermined size and the contents of the website.