KR20130120560A - Shadowletters.com - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a chat method with a combined E-mail reservation system and messenger service, the chat method comprising: storing E-mail in a server such that the E-mail is to be transmitted at a transmission time predetermined using reservation E-mail; and transmitting an alarm message to a receiver so as to notify the receiver of the storage of the E-mail in the server, wherein the alarm mail does not include information associated with a transmitter except the nickname thereof. The chat method enables a receiver to talk or chat with the initiative without knowing who a transmitter is, thereby providing the transmitter and the receiver with a fun that the receiver guesses the transmitter like twenty questions. [Reference numerals] (AA) Transmitter;(BB) E-mail delivery device;(CC) Messenger service;(DD) Receiver;(EE) Particular site

Description

Mail and chat system combined with booking email system and messenger service {ShadowLetters.com}

According to the present invention, a reservation email and a messenger service are set to send and set an email transmission point using a reservation email, and before the transmission point, a message is communicated or chatted by a receiver with the initiative without knowing who the sender is. In a combined chat method, in more detail, the sender writes an e-mail written by the sender at the scheduled time, and sends an alarm mail to notify the recipient that the e-mail has been stored on the server, The alarm mail does not include information related to the sender other than the sender's nickname so that the receiver cannot know who the sender is. In addition, according to the alarm mail, the receiver can start a conversation with the sender with the conversation initiative, and provide a messenger service for storing or deleting the conversation history. The receiver combines a reservation email with a messenger service that allows the sender and the receiver to predict the scheduled email through an instant messenger conversation, or to allow the receiver to have fun figuring out the sender before the receiver knows who the sender is. It's about how to chat.

With the development of computers and the Internet, e-mail and messenger services have become an important method of communication. Email and messenger systems typically include a server component and a client component. These components are typically software applications that are configured to run on computing devices (eg, servers, personal computers, laptops, PDAs, smartphones). In general, e-mails sent using the Internet are designed to send sender information, recipient information, referrer information, mail content, and attachments, and send the email to the recipient's email system. Getting drunk. In addition, as disclosed in Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2009-122511, a system using an e-mail has been developed so that an e-mail written by an e-mail sender can be scheduled and sent to the e-mail system of a receiver at a specific date and time as needed. In addition, a messenger service that allows a user to easily communicate with a messenger whenever he or she wants through a message is a communication tool that can be easily found in everyday life. In the meantime, the messenger function was mostly used in personal computers using the Internet, but mobile messengers such as KakaoTalk, TicTalk, and MyPeople that can be used on smartphones, such as Korean Patent Registration No. 10-0590188, are accompanied by the development of smart phones. It is used.

However, such a conventional reserved e-mail system merely limits the time of sending to a specific time and date, and the messenger allows a conversation to appear at the time of sending. Of course, when a large file is transmitted as in Korean Patent Registration No. 10-0703358, it can be sent by specifying a reservation time. However, there is no program that combines an e-mail system and a messenger system to imagine who is the sender and what is scheduled e-mail through conversations between the sender and the receiver without knowing who the sender is.

An object of the present invention is to set the sending point of the e-mail using the reservation e-mail, and to send, and the e-mail and the messenger to let the recipient have a conversation or chat with the initiative without knowing who the sender is using the messenger before the sending point It is to provide a chat method in which a service is combined.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to store in the server to send the e-mail created by the sender at a scheduled time, to send an alarm mail to inform the recipient that the e-mail is stored in the server, the sender to the alarm mail By not including the nickname of the sender, the receiver does not include information related to the sender so that the receiver cannot know who the sender is, and according to the alarm mail, the receiver has a conversation initiative and can start chatting with the sender. It allows you to store or delete records so that you can provide a messenger service to talk to the sender.

Another object of the present invention is to allow a sender and a receiver to predict a scheduled e-mail through a conversation of a messenger while the sender sends a scheduled e-mail and the receiver does not know who the sender is, or to allow the receiver to have fun finding out the sender. The chat method combines a reservation email and a messenger service to be used in a mobile system.

In order to realize the above object, the present invention provides a specific reservation email sending system and a specific reservation email sending system which enables to send and send an email to be sent in an email system using the Internet running on a portable terminal, a PDA, a mobile phone and a smartphone, a personal computer, a laptop, and the like. When an e-mail scheduled to be sent at a date and time is stored, the e-mail is stored in a message transmission device, and an alarm mail indicating that the e-mail that the sender is trying to send to the recipient has been stored, and the sender does not know who the sender is based on the alarm mail. Is characterized in that the receiver is a messenger system that allows the recipient to know who is the sender of the reservation e-mail via the messenger and to know the contents of the reservation e-mail.

In addition, when the scheduled e-mail is stored in the server, the e-mail cannot be edited or deleted until the e-mail is read by the recipient, or the sender adds content to the e-mail stored before the recipient is read under certain conditions such as a paid service. It can be configured to re-save or delete saved emails by adding or editing, and if the content is added or edited and saved or deleted, the recipient is notified that the saved email has been added, edited or deleted. Characterized by the notification mail is characterized in that the transmission. In addition, the content added or edited by the sender may be different from the font color, letter shape, font size, font weight, etc. so that the added or edited from the e-mail stored by the sender can be distinguished. When the e-mail is received at the time point, the stored e-mail and the added or edited content are displayed together to allow the receiver to know what the sender added or edited in the original e-mail during the conversation through the messenger. In this case, if the added time or edited time is displayed together, it may be fun to know the sender who knows the sender through the messenger by knowing which conversation the sender has added or edited such contents.

In particular, the sender knows who the receiver is, but the receiver is less vulnerable than the sender in the conversation by initiating a conversation (chat) without knowing who the sender is. To remedy this vulnerability, the receiver takes the initiative of the conversation, allowing them to start a conversation or save or delete all conversations, while the sender can only respond to the recipient's conversation messages. It is characterized by.

The present invention, which is configured to have the above features, sets a transmission point of an e-mail using a reservation e-mail and sends it, and before the time of the sending, a message is used to communicate with or communicate with a receiver by a receiver without knowing who the sender is. If the sender sends a scheduled email, the sender and the receiver can predict the scheduled email through a messenger conversation without the recipient knowing who the sender is before the recipient receives the scheduled email, or the receiver can have fun finding out the sender. It can be effective.

In addition, the use of e-mail is activated through this. In particular, the messenger function, which can be easily used in a mobile environment such as a smart phone and a PDA, is activated. Intimacy is effective.

1 is a conceptual diagram of a network environment in which the present invention may be used;
2 is a conceptual diagram of a reservation email system according to the present invention;
3 is a flowchart showing a process of processing a reservation email in the reservation email system of the present invention.
4 is a conceptual diagram for realizing the messenger function of the present invention.
5 is a conceptual view of a service combined with a reservation email and a messenger function of the present invention;

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention. It should be noted that the same reference numerals are used in the different drawings to denote the same constituent elements in the drawings. In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.

The term computer, as used herein, refers to any personal computer (PC), smart phone, mobile device such as a PDA, a multiprocessor system, a network PC, a tablet PC, etc., which can send or receive e-mails, and is also easy to use for messengers. It includes the device of.

1 is a conceptual diagram of a network environment in which the present invention may be used. An example network includes a number of computers 10 in communication with one another via a network 11, shown in a cloud. The network 11 may include a number of known components, such as routers, gateways, hubs, and the like, and allows the computers 10 to communicate via wired and / or wireless media. When interacting over the network 11, one or more of the computers may act as a client, server, or combination thereof to other computers.

2 is a conceptual diagram of a reservation e-mail system of the present invention. The reservation e-mail system of the present invention includes a computer 10, a message transmission device 20, and a network 11 in which a sender writes an e-mail. The message transmission device determines whether a message to be sent by the sender is a scheduled e-mail, checks when a reservation e-mail is sent at any time, and determines whether there is a reserved e-mail added by the sender. A reservation email storage device 22 for storing emails and a message transmission server 23 for sending reservation emails, alarm mails or notification mails are essential components. In addition, it is a matter of course that a variety of devices for sending e-mail should be included.

Now, the process of processing the reservation e-mail created by the sender in the reservation e-mail system will be described in detail with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 3.

In the e-mail system of which the sending date and time according to the present invention is scheduled, when the sender writes an e-mail in the computer 10 to which the e-mail is to be sent (step 31), the message transmission controller 21 determines whether the e-mail to be sent is a reserved e-mail. If it is not a reservation email (step 32), if it is not a reservation email, the processing is immediately sent to the network 11 through the message transmission server 23 (step 37). The storage is stored in the scheduled email store 22 (step 33). Although the storage period of the message is not specified, it is preferable to save the email for a storage period of at least 6 months to a maximum of 5 years from the period in which the email is created and saved to secure the storage space. If it is written, send a return message to the sender, notifying the sender that the sender's scheduled e-mail cannot be sent at the sender's desired sending time because the sender's reservation e-mail is longer than the time specified by the message sending server. This is preferred. In some cases, it is possible to set the storage period of the reservation email in a program for creating a reservation email, but since there are many email programs being used, it is stored in the email transmission device 20 that intends to use the reservation email. It is desirable to specify a period. The message transmission controller 21 checks (35) the transmission date and time for the stored email, determines whether the present time is the time that the sender wants to send (step 36), and sends the corresponding scheduled email to the sender. (Step 37).

In addition, the message transmission server may send a confirmation mail informing the sender that the mail is properly stored, and sends an alarm mail informing the receiver that the email to be sent is stored in the message transmission server (step 34). This allows the recipient to know that the reservation email that is due to be sent to the recipient has been stored on the message server, and that the sender can initiate a conversation or chat via messenger to know who the sender of the reservation email is and what the contents of the reservation email are. will be. Therefore, the alarm mail shall not display any other information related to the sender except for the sender's nickname and the storage date of the reservation email. However, in order to induce the receiver to start a conversation or chat with respect to the alarm mail, the message transmission server may provide the subject of the reservation email or an incentive that can be given when the conversation starts. The contents of the incentive may include various types of cyber money acorns, Naver beans, and discount items on the Internet.

Emails created and stored by the sender can have a feature that prevents them from being deleted or edited before they are read. Of course, the sender's options could be a deletion service or an editing service, but in this case, Cyworld's acorns, Naver beans, items on the Internet, etc. It is advisable to make limited use of these services through donations. In addition, if the sender adds and resaves the content in an existing stored e-mail in any form, or edits and resaves the contents of the content, or deletes the stored e-mail, the sender adds this to the sender. It is a good idea to send a notification mail to notify you of any edits or deletions. Also, the original scheduled email after the recipient has received the email if the content of the email that the sender has already created and saved has been modified, edited, or added after the conversation has been initiated via messenger between the sender and the recipient, or even before the start. You can vary the font size, font color, font weight, font shape, or underline or shade the edited or edited text so that you know the content of the text and how it was edited or added later. You can also have the recipient add or edit a scheduled email when it appears in the email you receive.

4 is a conceptual diagram for realizing the messenger function of the present invention. Recipients receive alarm mail via the computer's mail receiving function or mobile phone's message notifications as soon as the sender saves the reservation email on the message delivery server.The recipient can also edit and edit the reservation email, Even if deleted, the recipient will receive a notification mail.

When the receiver receives the alarm mail, he or she can start a conversation or chat with the sender described in the alarm mail (actually the nickname of the sender) via the receiver's messenger 41 to know the contents of the alarm mail. Since the receiver is talking without knowing who the sender is, and the sender is talking without knowing who the recipient is, there is an unfairness of information in the conversation. To resolve this inequity and allow the recipient to have fun in the process of getting to know the content of the sender's reservation email and the sender, the recipient can take the initiative in the conversation. The initiative of such conversations may authorize not only the right to initiate a conversation, but also the ability to save or delete a record of all conversations. Also, the sender may not start a conversation through the sender's messenger 42, and if the receiver deletes the record of the conversation, the record of the conversation on the chat screen in the sender's messenger 42 may also be deleted. For example, if the sender and the receiver are talking using KakaoTalk and the recipient leaves the chat room with the sender in KakaoTalk, the record of the conversation is not deleted only on the recipient's screen. Or the conversation history on the mobile can be deleted. Of course, the recipient can know who the sender is through the conversation and the contents of the reservation e-mail. However, the contents of the reservation e-mail or who the sender is will be the time when the e-mail is received by the recipient. The sender then repeats the contents of the reservation email and sender by sending the reservation email to the same recipient from another nickname (for example, 'Anne of Green Gables' from Daddy-Long-Legs). You can use a chat method that combines a rescheduled email and an instant messenger system to make sure you have the right twenty pass.

The chat method, which combines the reservation email system and the messenger service described above, provides a chat method modified from a public email system and a commercial messenger service.

The chat method using the reservation e-mail system and the messenger service of the present invention is a commercial e-mail system for sending an alarm mail or a notification mail, which is a function not existing in the conventional e-mail, or using a conversational initiative between the sender and the receiver on a messenger. You can also use it to provide a messenger service.

In addition, if you provide a specific site and a message transmission device that provides such a service, it may be easier to combine a reservation email system and a messenger service.

FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram of a service in which a reservation email and a messenger function of the present invention enable implementing such a concept. The present invention may be configured not only with the embodiment described with reference to FIGS. 2 through 4 but also with the reservation email system and the messenger system as shown in FIG. 5. First, the reservation e-mail system will be described. The user who wants to use the chat method or the service of the present invention should access the specific site address providing the service and register to receive the service. Membership can be free or paid, and such a subscription can be easily made according to a known method, so a detailed description thereof will be omitted. If you log in and create a reservation e-mail after joining (1), the message transmission device for operating a specific site can be sent on a specific date and time. 23) and store it (2). In addition, the reservation email system stores the reservation e-mail in the reservation mail storage device 23 of the message transmission device 20, and simultaneously sends a confirmation mail to the sender confirming that the e-mail has been saved, and an alarm for notifying the recipient of the reservation e-mail. The mail will be sent (3). In addition, as described above, the recipient can be programmed not to delete the scheduled email, and the content can be added to, or edited from, the email once created and stored in the same manner as paid or provided with a particular cyber money such as acorns or beans. Or you can delete the saved email. Of course, if the content has been added, edited or deleted, a notification mail should be sent to let the recipient know. Membership registration is necessary for the sender to use the reservation e-mail system, and registration for the recipient is necessary for the messenger system.

The receiver receives the alarm mail or the notification mail through the mail sent from the message transmission server 23 through various paths, and the alarm mail may be provided with various incentives for the receiver to use the messenger service. The contents of the incentive may include various types of cyber money acorns, Naver beans, and discount items on the Internet. These incentives may also be provided when using only messengers, or only when signing up for a particular site using a server that can use a reservation email system. However, by signing up for a particular site rather than using a messenger alone, you can ultimately induce membership to a particular site by giving more incentives or giving some rights to the initiatives related to starting, storing or deleting conversations. have. In particular, it is desirable for the recipient to sign up for a specific site and log in to confirm the reservation e-mail received. This service provider will be able to easily increase the number of members by making a subscription required at the time of confirming the reservation e-mail to satisfy the curiosity about whether the information learned through the conversation between the sender and the receiver is correct.

Recipients who receive an alarm mail can log in to a specific site that provides a service and start a conversation with the recipient, or start a conversation with the recipient as recorded in the alarm mail. Of course, as in a commercial messenger system, the receiver can start a conversation (4) because he or she does not know who the sender is, or can save or delete all conversation history, and the receiver cannot start the conversation and only the recipient You can only reply to a question or say (5). However, there may be a certain limit on the length of the conversation, and it is preferable to limit the length so that the conversation can be made many times in a short sentence rather than a long sentence due to the nature of the method or messenger. In particular, if the recipient wants to delete all conversations with the sender, when the recipient clicks the Delete button with the sender or leaves the chat room, the conversation screen of the sender's mobile or computer It is also a good idea to ensure that all of the conversation history at is deleted. Of course, when the recipient logs in to a specific site and checks the reservation email (6), the recipient can check who the sender is and what the contents of the reservation email are. A user at a particular site can be a sender or a receiver. A sender can also send a reservation email to himself in a year, so he can be both a sender and a recipient. In this case, of course, the messenger function can be configured not to be activated.

The present invention has been shown and described with reference to certain preferred embodiments, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments and terms, and the present invention belongs to the technical scope of the present invention. Various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art. The scope of protection of the invention is set forth in the claims and includes all modifications and equivalents of the subject matter described in the claims to the extent permitted by applicable law. Also included in the present invention are any combinations of the above-described elements of all possible variations unless otherwise indicated herein or otherwise explicitly disclaimed in the context.

10: computer, 11: network
20: message transmission device 21: message transmission controller
22: Reserved mail storage device 23: Message transfer server
41: messenger of receiver 42: messenger of sender

Claims (16)

Storing the e-mail written by the sender in the message transmission device to be sent at a scheduled time; And
Sending an alarm mail informing the receiver that the e-mail has been stored in the message transmission device, wherein the alarm mail does not include information related to the sender other than the sender's nickname; And
And according to the alarm mail, a receiver provides a messenger service to talk with the sender with a conversation advantage (right to save or delete a conversation record and start a conversation with the sender).
Chat method combined with reservation email and messenger service
The method of claim 1,
The e-mail stored in the message transmission device may not be edited or deleted until the recipient reads it.
Chat method combined with reservation email and messenger service
The method of claim 1,
Before the recipient reads the e-mail stored in the message transmission device, the sender may add or edit content and store the e-mail again or delete the stored e-mail.
Chat method combined with reservation email and messenger service
The method of claim 3,
When the stored e-mail is added, edited or deleted by the sender before being read by the recipient, or when the stored e-mail is deleted or not, the notification e-mail is sent to notify the recipient that the stored e-mail has been added, edited or deleted.
Chat method combined with reservation email and messenger service
The method of claim 3,
The added or edited content can be distinguished from being added or edited from the email stored by the sender,
When the recipient receives the e-mail at the scheduled time, the stored e-mail and the added or edited content are displayed together.
Chat method combined with reservation email and messenger service
The method of claim 1,
The sender may reply only when a receiver having a conversation control authority transmits a message.
Chat method combined with reservation email and messenger service
The method of claim 1,
The recipient has a conversation control over the alarm mail and provides an incentive to start a conversation
Chat method combined with reservation email and messenger service
8. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 7,
When the receiver having the conversation control authority deletes the conversation contents with the sender, the conversation record on the conversation screen of the sender is also deleted.
Chat method combined with reservation email and messenger service
Creating a reservation email by logging in to a specific site to send an email written by the sender at a scheduled time;
Storing the reservation email in the message transmission device at the message transmission device operated at the specific site; And
Sending an alarm mail informing the receiver that the e-mail has been stored in the message transmission device, wherein the alarm mail does not include information related to the sender other than the sender's nickname; And
And according to the alarm mail, a receiver provides a messenger service to talk with the sender with a conversation advantage (right to save or delete a conversation record and start a conversation with the sender).
Chat method combined with reservation email and messenger service
10. The method of claim 9,
The message transmission device is a reservation email storage device for storing a reservation email when the message is sent to the reservation email by the message transmission controller and the message transmission controller for confirming whether or not the reservation email is transmitted. Characterized in that consisting of a message transmission server for transmitting
Chat method combined with reservation email and messenger service
10. The method of claim 9,
Before the recipient reads the e-mail stored in the message transmission device, the sender may add or edit content and store the e-mail again or delete the stored e-mail.
Chat method combined with reservation email and messenger service
12. The method of claim 11,
When the stored e-mail is added, edited or deleted by the sender before being read by the recipient, or when the stored e-mail is deleted or not, the notification e-mail is sent to notify the recipient that the stored e-mail has been added, edited or deleted.
Chat method combined with reservation email and messenger service
12. The method of claim 11,
The added or edited content can be distinguished from being added or edited from the email stored by the sender,
When the recipient receives the e-mail at the scheduled time, the stored e-mail and the added or edited content are displayed together.
Chat method combined with reservation email and messenger service
10. The method of claim 9,
The recipient has a conversation control over the alarm mail and provides an incentive to start a conversation
Chat method combined with reservation email and messenger service
10. The method of claim 9,
In order to check the reservation email received at the time of transmission, the recipient has to log in to a specific site.
Chat method combined with reservation email and messenger service
The method according to any one of claims 9 to 15.
When the receiver having the conversation control authority deletes the conversation contents with the sender, the conversation record on the conversation screen of the sender is also deleted.
Chat method combined with reservation email and messenger service

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