KR20010099095A - Methoded for search electronic mail address book of Unified Messaging System - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an integrated messaging system, and more particularly, to an email address book search method of an integrated messaging system having a method of searching an email address book and providing a telephone or a fax by email.

According to the present invention, in order to send a voice message of a telephone or a text message of a fax by e-mail, when the caller inputs only one of the recipient's telephone number, mobile number and company number, the recipient's e-mail address connected to the above numbers is entered. How to find and send an email.

Therefore, it is not necessary to listen to unnecessary address book numbers, which reduces the time for sending a message and reduces communication costs. There is an effect of not having to manage registration and cancellation.

Description

{Methoded for search electronic mail address book of Unified Messaging System}

The present invention relates to an email address book search method of an integrated messaging system, and more particularly, to an email address book search method of an integrated messaging system having a method of searching an email address book and providing a telephone or a fax by email.

As the market of companies and telecommunications business changes rapidly these days, users are increasingly inclined to integrate various types of information that come to them. The Unified Messaging System (hereinafter referred to as UMS) is called Computer-telephony integration.

In general, UMS is a system that stores and manages all types of message types such as voice, fax, and e-mail in a single logical mailbox. Users can access stored messages through various communication media such as PC, telephone, fax, and mobile phone. can do. It also integrates wired and wireless telephones and data communications networks to search, compose and exchange different types of messages in one mailbox, including voicemail, fax and e-mail.

When such a UMS provides an e-mail message of a wired / wireless telephone or a fax input to a wired / wireless telephone or a fax, there is no input unit for inputting an e-mail address.

Therefore, an address book is created in the database part inside UMS, which contains the unique call sign of the person who will receive the message such as e-mail address, mobile phone number, company number, fax number, home number, name, etc. The caller's unique call sign is assigned a unique number that the caller can simply enter.

Thus, when the sender wants to send a message, the sender sends a message by inputting the unique number assigned to the telephone or fax.

That is, the caller inputs a message to be sent to the receiver through a telephone or a fax, and then listens to the unique numbers of the recipients contained in the address book by the announcement to the caller.

Listening to the recipient's unique number, selecting the recipient's unique number to receive the message, and entering the corresponding unique number, the recipient can receive a message by phone or fax by e-mail.

However, it is cumbersome to manage such as registering and canceling unique codes of recipients in the address book of the database part, and the number of unique numbers of recipients that can be guided by voice is limited. There is a hard problem.

In addition, in order to select a unique number of the recipient, it is necessary to listen to the address book information guide for a certain time, which causes unnecessary problems and a burden of communication costs.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an integrated messaging system for searching an email address book in which email addresses are stored.

1 is a block diagram for implementing an email address book search method of an integrated messaging system according to the present invention.

2 is a flowchart for implementing an email address book search method of an integrated messaging system according to the present invention.

The present invention for achieving the above object performs a function for converting and sending a message sent from a wired or wireless terminal through a public telephone network to an e-mail message, in the e-mail address book search method of an integrated messaging system having an e-mail address book, the sender A caller input step of receiving a number of a called party and a message to be sent through the wired / wireless terminal; An email address book search step of searching whether the called party number entered in the sender input step exists in the email address book; An e-mail address extraction step of extracting an e-mail address if the entered recipient number exists as a result of the search in the e-mail address book search step; And a called party sending step of sending the called party's email address and the message to be sent to the called party's email address.

The wired / wireless terminal may be any one of a landline telephone, a wireless telephone, and a fax, and the called party's number may be any one of the called party's mobile number, home number, company number, and fax number.

In addition, in the caller input step, by providing a message to input the message to be sent to the caller, it is characterized in that the caller to input a message, the caller input step in the caller input step to enter the recipient's number It is characterized in that the caller is provided so that the caller can input the called party's number.

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

1 is a block diagram for implementing an email address book search method of an integrated messaging system according to the present invention.

The present invention provides a fax (11); A telephone 12; A public telephone network (hereinafter referred to as "PSTN") 14; An integrated messaging system 10; A service control processor block (16) for overall control of the integrated messaging system; A server block 18 including a plurality of servers for services such as e-mail, fax, mobile communication, and wired communication network; An email address book search unit 20 for searching the sender's email address book; A guidement section 22 for providing a guidement to a caller so that a message can be sent; A database block 24 for storing messages entered via fax or telephone; And a medium conversion block 26 for converting voice into text, converting text into voice, or converting a fax image into text.

Here, the database block 24 is composed of a voice database unit 240 for storing voice messages, a text database unit 242 for storing text messages, and an e-mail database unit 244 for storing e-mail messages.

The server block 18 includes a mail server 180, a fax server 182, and a voice server 184.

Here, the mail server 180 performs an operation related to sending or receiving an e-mail, converts the data received by the e-mail into an appropriate form through the medium conversion block 26, and then the fax server 182 or the voice server 184. Through the role that allows the called party to be called by voice or text.

In addition, the fax server 182 performs an operation related to the transmission or reception of the fax document, converts the data received by the fax into an appropriate form through the media conversion block 26, and then the mail server 180 or the voice server 184. ) To allow the called party to receive voice or e-mail.

In addition, the voice server 184 performs an operation related to the transmission or reception of the voice recorded by the telephone, converts the data received by the voice into an appropriate form through the media conversion block 26, and then the mail server 180 or the fax. The server 182 serves to allow the called party to be called by email or fax.

Referring to Figure 2 which is a flow chart for implementing the email address book search method of the integrated messaging system according to the present invention.

First, when a call is processed from the fax 11 or the telephone 12, it is input to the service control processor block 16 of the integrated messaging system 10 via the PSTN 14 (step S1), and this service control processor block ( 16 transmits a control signal for transmitting a first guidement to the caller to input a message to be sent through a message input unit (not shown) of a fax or a telephone to the guidement unit 22.

The guidance section 22 receiving this control signal is the first guide to the recipient to send the fax message or the voice message of the fax to be received by the message input unit (not shown) of the fax or the message input unit (not shown) of the telephone. Announce the announcement to the caller (step S2).

The caller who hears the first announcement mentioned above enters a fax message of the fax or a voice message of the telephone into a message input unit (not shown) of the fax or a message input unit (not shown) of the telephone (step S3).

The fax message of the fax or the voice message of the telephone input through the caller is stored in the database block 24 through the control signal of the service control processor block 16 to store in the database block 24 (step S4).

That is, the fax message of the fax 11 input through the caller is stored in the text database unit 242 of the database block 24, and the voice message of the telephone 12 input through the caller is stored in the database block 24. It is stored in the voice database unit 240.

When the message to be sent is stored in the database block 24, the sender enters the called party's number to be sent to the called party.

In order for the caller to input the called party's number, the service control processor block 16 transmits a control signal for transmitting the second guidement to the caller to input the called party's number to the caller unit 22.

The guidement section 22 receiving the control signal tells the caller a second guidement that tells the caller to enter the called party's number (step: S5).

The caller who hears the second announcement mentioned above inputs the number of the called party to which the message is to be received through the telephone number input unit (not shown) or the fax number input unit (not shown).

In this case, the called party's number refers to the cell phone number, home number, company number, fax number, etc. of the person to whom the message is to be sent. The sender's e-mail address book contains the numbers and the e-mail address. It exists on the mail site with the sender's own email account over the Internet.

Therefore, knowing the above number of the recipient can know the e-mail address can be sent to the recipient.

Therefore, when the sender enters only one of the numbers, the service control processor block 16 sends an e-mail address book search unit to search for a control signal to search for the inputted party's number in the e-mail address book of the sender's e-mail database unit 244. 20) to transmit.

When the control signal is transmitted to the e-mail address book search unit 20, the service control processor block 16 determines whether or not the called party's number entered in the e-mail address book of the sender's e-mail database unit 244 exists. (Step S7).

Therefore, if it is determined that the called party's number does not exist in the sender's email address book, the sender must enter the called party's number again. If the called party's number exists, the recipient's email address is extracted and stored. A text message or a voice message of the phone is transmitted to the medium conversion block 26.

If the email address of the called party and the text message of the stored fax or the voice message of the telephone are transmitted to the medium conversion block 26 as described above, it is converted into a format that can be transmitted by email. (Step: S8)

The converted message is transmitted to the email address of the called party through the mail server 180 (step S9), and the called party can receive the voice message of the caller or the text message of the fax by email. S10)

As above, you can search the email address book and send a phone or fax by email.

As described above, the present invention uses the email address book search method of the integrated messaging system that searches the email address book, thereby reducing the communication cost by shortening the sender's message time without having to listen to unnecessary address book numbers. .

In addition, since the numbers and e-mail addresses of the recipients in the e-mail address book are used as they are, users do not have to manage the registration and termination of the address book separately, and use the e-mail address book to store the numbers and e-mail addresses of the recipients. This is more effective than the voice database.

Claims (5)

In the email address book search method of the integrated messaging system that performs the function of converting the message sent from the wired or wireless terminal through the public telephone network into an email message, and having an email address book, A caller input step of receiving a caller's number and a message to be sent by the caller through the wired or wireless terminal; An email address book search step of searching whether the called party number entered in the sender input step exists in the email address book; An e-mail address extraction step of extracting an e-mail address if the entered recipient number exists as a result of the search in the e-mail address book search step; And a called party sending step of sending the called party's email address and the message to be sent to the called party's email address extracted through the email address extracting step. The method of claim 1, wherein the wired or wireless terminal E-mail address book search method of the integrated messaging system, characterized in that any one of a landline phone, a wireless phone and a fax. The method of claim 1, wherein the called party's number is Email address book search method of the integrated messaging system, characterized in that any one of the recipient's mobile number, home number, company number and fax number. The method of claim 1, wherein in the caller input step, And providing a message for inputting a message to be sent to the sender so that the sender can input a message. The method of claim 1, wherein in the caller input step, And providing the caller with a guide to input the called party's number so that the calling party can enter the called party's number.